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Peveril Castle was originally built by William Peveril, illegitimate son of the Conqueror, to administer the Royal Hunting Forest of the Peak.

Nearby is Castle Drogo, built by Sir Edwin Lutyens between 1911 and 1930 for the Drewe family, after whom the pub is named.

Not far away was once a Norman castle, strategically placed to guard the river valley; it was occupied until the downfall of Warwick the Kingmaker, who owned it in the 15th century.

This view looks down Steep Hill from nearer Castle Hill, with the jettied and timber-framed Spinning Wheel Restaurant on the far left, its later Georgian bow windows tucking under the jetty.

The Castle Hotel on the right is much the same today with the exception of the crenellations to the right. The traffic lights are no longer here, the road being one-way.

A ruined 14th-century double-towered castle stands guard over Loch Ranza. It was here that Robert the Bruce is said to have landed on his return from Ireland in 1306.

King Henry VII spent some of his childhood at Raglan, where the two Williams had transformed a fortified rural manor into a castle fit for a future king.

The well tended beds, paths and raised walkways show that the Abergavenny Improvement Commissioners had an early appreciation of the ruined castle's leisure and tourist potential.

The Macleans paid the price for siding with James VII against William III, forfeiting castle and estates.

The Castle and Ball Hotel has lost its decorative tile- hanging and barge boards; instead, a huge metallic ball is suspended over the pedestrians.

Kingsgate Castle was built in about 1860 close to the sea cliff's edge and the North Foreland itself. It is shown here romantically clothed in ivy.

The well tended beds, paths and raised walkways show that the Abergavenny Improvement Commissioners had an early appreciation of the ruined castle's leisure and tourist potential.

On the extreme left of this picture you can see the Castle Hill Cliff Railway, built to link the towns in 1892. Though only two hundred feet long, the railway rises one hundred feet in height.

Once part of an ancient hunting forest and dominated by a castle, Powerstock huddles in its valley not far from the Iron Age hillfort of Eggardon, in the heart of West Dorset.

The hotel takes its name from the Dukes of Norfolk, formerly the Earls of Arundel, whose principal ancestral home is Arundel Castle.

It is noon, and a convoy of open-topped char à bancs roll into town, no doubt bound for the castle. The hotel on the right has now gone, but the Victoria opposite still serves customers today.

A Victorian guidebook noted that 'the coach excursionist will be saved the trouble of choosing his quarters, as the coaches usually set him down at the Carisbrooke Castle or the Eight Bells'.

Sleaford has fragments of a castle, built by Alexander, the princely Bishop of Lincoln, in the 1120s, but its function as a market town for north Kesteven is undimmed.

Just behind the churchyard lie the remains of a castle: a 20ft motte surrounded by a dry ditch.

Hedingham's dominant feature, the enormous castle keep, looms behind these cottages just to the right, out of picture. Bones were recently unearthed in a garden at Pye Corner.

Next-door-but-one we can see the sign of the Castle public house. Before the mid 1870s, it was called the Tumble-down Dick.

In 1541 a large manor house was constructed within the remnants of the old castle. It even incorporated a part of the curtain wall, gatehouse and great tower.

Situated five miles south-west of Bridgend, the Dunraven in our picture is the 19th-century castellated mansion built for Thomas Wyndham MP between 1802 and 1806 on the site of a medieval fortress.

There seemed to be a swell on the River Medway that day, but the photographer kept a steady hand to capture the imposing sights of the Norman castle and the cathedral.