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Stair Hole (bottom right) and the contorted strata behind its breach in the seaward ridge show the forces generated by a collision of the Earth's tectonic plates.

The large door of the outbuilding has a cat hole.

Petty Sessions were held in the Swan Hotel, and the public house on the right has been a popular watering-hole since the early 1800s.

It was built by the same family who built the church, the school, Wookey Hole Club and many houses for their employees. The previous mill had been built by 1656.

Some distance away from the village is charming Beck Hole, today a magnet for tourists in search of locations from the TV series Heartbeat.

On the jetty, the capstan, with holes for manually- operated turning bars, would assist ships entering dock by helping warp them round the knuckle to the entrance.

We are looking towards Stair Hole, where the downlands of Dorset meet the sea, is hollowed out by vast caverns, many used by smugglers for centuries.The South West Way Coastal Footpath, once an old

It was a very popular 'watering hole' for aircrews from the nearby aerodrome, and has numerous old and new photographs to remember those days.

The Hole's Ales advertising sign on the wall has gone, and the beer being advertised on the hanging sign is now Carling.

It was a very popular 'watering hole' for aircrews from the nearby aerodrome, and has numerous old and new photographs to remember those days.

The hull was shaped to allow the boat to ride through the breakers to the shore; the crew then used the oars protruding from orruck holes to carry the boat up the beach.

The passageway of the King's Gate was protected by five doors, six portcullises, arrow loops, and murder holes in the vaulted ceiling. The upper floor was used as a chapel.

The gatehouse was equipped with a portcullis and drawbridge, and close defence was provided by murder-holes.

It has since been demolished to make way for the British Home Stores. We can also see Newman & Sons piano warehouse on the left, with the Lipton Market, a grocery store, further along.

Gatehouse defences included a drawbridge and two main portcullises; there were others protecting doorways off the entrance passageway, and a number of murder holes were also incorporated into the design

At No 72 High Street, which was owned by the family building firm of Croad, there is a small hole in the quarter-inch-thick pane of the bay window facing north.

More survives on the right as far as the middle distance, where the rear yard of Marks and Spencer's has punched a substantial hole in the street frontage.

This photograph shows Witton Gilbert's war memorial in its original position on part of the dene on a popular and well used walk down to a bathing hole where people used to swim, and where parents brought

This cave became known as Darby's Hole.

The village of Bradpole is shown here from the north-east, looking south-west from above Hole House Farm and the valley of the Mangerton River across to Holy Trinity Parish Church (right) and the fields

There was a hiding place in the garret, and later in the 19th century a second priest hole was found. One daughter married the minor poet William Shenstone.

During the Second World War it was stored for safe keeping in Wookey Hole caves, Somerset.

The grille- covered peep-holes are unusual.

She is watching for the tell-tale pair of small holes which betray the cockle's presence an inch or so below the surface.