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The Somerset chapel on the left is the last resting place of several of the Earls of Worcester, masters of Raglan Castle.

The castle can be seen in the centre of the picture. The Moravians once held meetings in a building in the street before relocating uphill to St Thomas's Green.

The Prison Governor's House, now the home of the excellent Town Museum, built in 1779 at the same time as the first prison, was built within the Castle precinct.

The design was based on Clearwell Castle in Gloucestershire, which Wyndham also owned. The door, the two-seater sofa, and the chairs, give us some indication of how large the Palm Court was.

In the distance is the tree-clad hill of Bramber Castle with the stone tooth of its keep.

A mile away there was once a moated castle that had belonged to the landowners, the de Melsa family, which died out in 1377.

Beyond the castle is the Bass Rock.

In the distance are the turrets not of the castle, but of the Cliff Railway which carried visitors to the top of East Cliff, the sandstone bluffs that hem in the east end of the town.

assortment of small fishing and rowing boats has been hauled safely above the high water mark in this picture of the eastern end of the Marine Parade; the famous white cliffs are visible beyond the castle

Although Arthur Conan Doyle set his novel 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' in Dartmoor, he got his inspiration here – the Baskerville family once owned Eardisley's castle and the story of the black

A sign beyond the shop advertises an agency representing the Union Castle Steamship Co for South Africa, to which many Cornishmen emigrated.

This is the south end of the High Street, with the ramparts of its ruined castle visible in the middle of the picture. Totnes had a medieval wall around the centre, much of it still intact.

Peveril Castle stands on a hill 260ft above the village, yet despite its looks it was far from impregnable; it was even in Scottish hands for a number of years.

In 1313 Robert invaded Man, besieging and almost destroying Castle Rushen in the process.

Although it had fallen into disrepair by the time of the Civil War, the castle was then refortified; it changed hands a couple of times during the war, and was finally slighted in 1645.

The bank to the right, where the car is parked, now houses a boat hire firm, Castle Narrowboats.

Its builder, George Luttrell, owned Dunster Castle, which is now in the care of the National Trust. The tower on Conygar Hill was built in 1775 and gives a grand view across the bay.

Despite its name, it was never a castle, but parts of it are 15th-century.

In this view from the south-west, two smallish levelled areas that appear to be stepped one above the other can be seen to the left of the castle.

The stronghold formed an integral part of the defences of the western border of Glamorgan, which also included the castles of Newcastle at Bridgend and Coity.

Both town and castle were put to the torch; the damage to the former was such that when reconstruction started much of the town was built outside the old walls.

Here we see the ruins of the once luxurious state rooms of Bolsover Castle. It was probably in these rooms that the Duke of Newcastle lavished thousands of pounds on entertaining Charles I.

Situated between Hythe and Folkestone, Sandgate Castle was yet another of Henry VIII's fortifications; it was built with rounded bastions in the German style.

Looking towards the Castle at the end of the street, note the agricultural implements on sale on the left, the Lion Hotel further down the street, and on the right-hand side the arched