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The 19th-century Gothic style gatehouse to The Park has a turret and plenty of ivy growing up the stone walls. Park House is now nearly all demolished.

Here we see the post-1953 sea wall, stepped here to allow access to the beach.

A paddle steamer lies moored at the harbour wall. The first steam- driven paddle vessels, the 'Ivanhoe' and the 'Warspite', arrived in Weymouth as early as 1827.

His famous painting 'The Boyhood of Raleigh' features the sea wall across the road from where Millais stayed.

Fashions have altered more than somewhat, and the outer wall of the Peacock looks much the worse for wear. The Midland Railway station was located to the right of this picture.

A brass of a 14in figure to Elizabeth Prout, 1440, is in the chancel north wall.

Considered to be the best medieval hall in the country after Westminster Hall, the Great Hall dates back to the early 13th century and includes fine arcade piers of Purbeck marble.

military origins, the outline of the fort succeeds in making a dramatic statement on the skyline of the common; it serves to highlight the domestic scene below, where each house has its walled

On the right the low wall is in front of the Congregational church, now demolished. Several of the houses have later façades. The central one is where Thomas Gainsborough lived in the 1750s.

Note the sign on the wall: 'Tickets to view the church and hospital can be obtained here - Sundays excepting'.

Situated to the south-east of Milford Church, Hurst Castle was probably built between 1539 and 1544 and comprises a twelve-sided central tower protected by a curtain wall and semi-circular bastion towers

St Barnabas's Church stands behind the two gate pillars (right), and a memorial in a nearby wall lists the village's fallen from the First and Second World Wars.

The unchanging beauty of the Winster Valley, with its meadows, rolling hillsides, dry stone walls and scattered dwellings, is entirely typical of the soft countryside of the southern fringe

The church of St Leonard is perched on a steep slope just below the walls of the castle, overlooking the village.

A solitary ladies' bicycle stands against the wall of an ivy-adorned cottage. Although the cottage is still recognisable today, it has lost its ivy foliage.

This scene is characteristic of the North Norfolk coast: the walls and houses are built of whole flints found in the fields or on the nearby beach.

The direction sign points to the county town, 10 miles away, and there is the classic confection of village life - church, public house with a wall against which to lean your bicycle, and the bus stop

Smaller boats are drawn right up to the buildings in the background, for the Wharf wall had not yet been built.

Inside the church there are wall paintings of three female saints dating from when the church was first built.

The notice on the arch restricts the speed of all motors to 6 miles per hour through the arch, while the poster beside it is advertising a fete.

The old village of Constantine was home to the miners and quarrymen who worked the granite for which the parish was famous - small wonder that the walls of some of the cottages were solidly built.

The houses were designed by Featherstone, and were very attractive with white walls and dark roofs. Wherever possible, mature tress were kept, and if necessary new ones were planted.

The wall on the left on which the child is sitting has since been extensively redeveloped as the river frontage for a shopping development. It is now a series of steps leading down to the water.

Like St John's Abbey, St Botolph's Priory lay outside the town walls. It was founded before 1100, but never grew very large.