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Holme Hall was described by Nikolaus Pevsner as dating from 1626, `of three bays with central square projection, in which the blocked original porch`.

The earliest reference to the church dates from 1285, and the building and the bells have been altered over the years.

The painted advertisement next door has gone, but the gable beyond retains the date 1662.

The pulpit, with its sounding-board and slender oak stem (centre right), dates from the 1680s.

It is mostly a residential street, illuminated by gas lamps at this date; but there is a group of shops on the right.

As the High Street runs down toward the medieval town wall gate and through to the harbour, the influence of Robert Wynn's Plas Mawr can be seen in the transomed stone mullions of the Castle

On the extreme right is St Mary's Church of 13th-century date with its stumpy recessed steeple.

Inside, the south arcade of the nave dates from about 1200, but the rest is from Edward VI's reign.

The brickwork on the first floor dates from 1654, and so does the sundial with the inscription 'I only count the sunny hours'.

This, constructed in 1564-66, pre-dated the canals in the north of England, where many people think the canal age started.

Parts of the original Norman church can still be seen, though much of the present cathedral dates from the 13th to the 16th centuries.

The Old House (left) dates from 1678, and it is a prominently sited example of English domestic architecture at its very best.

This handsome crescent dates back to 1826 and was originally intended to be part of a seaside resort known as Anglesey, developed by the Marquis of Anglesey.

The castle, which dates from 1282, was left to slide into decay following its siege during the Civil War in 1645.

Even at this late date there were people advocating the 'dockisation' of the Avon, which would have resulted in the destruction of much of the natural beauty of the Gorge and the wholesale removal of Horseshoe

The foundation stone is dated 5 September 1789; this building replaced earlier churches on the site.

In the background is the Record Tower, which dates from 1258.

On the right, the house dated 1882 still stands at the corner of East Road, part of the High Town developments of the 1870s onwards.

Actually, this impressive stone circle dates from the Neolithic or early Bronze Age period, and predates the Celtic Druids by many centuries.

The church of St Mary the Virgin, standing on its mound on the edge of Romney Marsh and viewed here from the south-west, dates from the 13th and 15th centuries.

Dating from the end of the 13th century, technically it is not a castle at all, but a moated manor house, and it would have been very open to attack.

It has now had the plaster removed to reveal timber work, and is also dated to 1510.

The entire churchyard, and even the paths leading to the door, are all covered with tombstones, some of which date back to the 1600s.

Bullet marks on the lower part of the tower date from the period of the Civil War.