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The cliffs and castle are sublime, with plunging chasms and precipices, and rough fragments of wall, bastion and gateway bound by china clay mortar.

It was once a walled settlement with a castle. This agreeable street has many fine old shopfronts, some multi-paned and dating from the late Georgian period.

The railings in the foreground were recently replaced with a brick wall.

The harbour office (left) stands where the breakwater meets the wall of the 18th-century pier.

Widening began when the walls were removed in the 1820s, and this picture shows the road after further widening. The houses were fashionable residences, with balconies giving views over the park.

The white- painted building above the left-hand end of the wall is the Commodore hotel of today.

The white- painted building above the left-hand end of the wall is the Commodore hotel of today.

The Corner Shop and Station Parade Post Office still provides an invaluable service to residents and passers-by, but an extension has been built on to the end wall for Saab who also trade

The yoke hung on the front wall was used for draught animals, probably oxen. A tall white flagpole stands in the garden.

This remarkable village has three medieval stone houses, as well as the Norman church whose tower we see in this view.

Where the wall stood on the right, the now open space is an attractive riverside garden beside the village hall.

Southgate is the only surviving gate of the three that used to give access to the old walled town.

Race Hill was once the main road into Launceston from the south; it leads down to the South Gate, which is the last remnant of the old town walls.

His choice of site was deliberate: here was the royal hall of Llywelyn the Great and the Cistercian Abbey of St Mary where he lay buried.

At one time the abbey boundary wall stood along the river bank. The little building to the rear, which here has 'baths' written on it, is now used as a store for canoes.

The stone-arched building on the right was the postern tower built in 1497 on St Mary's Abbey walls; it is now an office for First York Buses.

These three similar shots of St Michael's span half a century, but only in 1955 do we notice the restricted area of the burial ground around the church by the appearance of a substantial brick wall.

The chancel and nave walls are more than 700 years old, and the nave arches were fashioned out of chalk from nearby Odiham.

Now called Stanley House, this beautiful timber-framed house is relatively recent compared to many in the area - above the window in the gable end there is a plaque that reads '1859'.

Rhosili village is enclosed by an ancient field system: strips of land known as landshares are bounded by low stone walls.

The nearest cottage has pebble-dash rendering on the walls and a long-straw thatched roof with a traditional swept ridge.

The Railway Hotel has a rustic porch, and children stand hopefully beside the chocolate machines on the wall. The hotel later became the Eeabank Lodge.

closure of the post office and stores in March 2003, a community shop and post office opened in the barn of the Swan in December 2003.The single-decker bus is approaching another now closed shop selling Walls

Beauchief is four miles south of Sheffield, but all that remains of the Premonstratensian Abbey founded by Robert Fitz Ranulf around 1183 is the west tower.