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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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'.

Situated to the south-east of Milford Church, Hurst Castle was probably built between 1539 and 1544 and comprises a twelve-sided central tower protected by a curtain wall and semi-circular bastion towers

St Barnabas's Church stands behind the two gate pillars (right), and a memorial in a nearby wall lists the village's fallen from the First and Second World Wars.

The unchanging beauty of the Winster Valley, with its meadows, rolling hillsides, dry stone walls and scattered dwellings, is entirely typical of the soft countryside of the southern fringe

The church of St Leonard is perched on a steep slope just below the walls of the castle, overlooking the village.

A solitary ladies' bicycle stands against the wall of an ivy-adorned cottage. Although the cottage is still recognisable today, it has lost its ivy foliage.

This scene is characteristic of the North Norfolk coast: the walls and houses are built of whole flints found in the fields or on the nearby beach.

The direction sign points to the county town, 10 miles away, and there is the classic confection of village life - church, public house with a wall against which to lean your bicycle, and the bus stop

Smaller boats are drawn right up to the buildings in the background, for the Wharf wall had not yet been built.

Inside the church there are wall paintings of three female saints dating from when the church was first built.

The notice on the arch restricts the speed of all motors to 6 miles per hour through the arch, while the poster beside it is advertising a fete.

The old village of Constantine was home to the miners and quarrymen who worked the granite for which the parish was famous - small wonder that the walls of some of the cottages were solidly built.

The houses were designed by Featherstone, and were very attractive with white walls and dark roofs. Wherever possible, mature tress were kept, and if necessary new ones were planted.

The wall on the left on which the child is sitting has since been extensively redeveloped as the river frontage for a shopping development. It is now a series of steps leading down to the water.

Like St John's Abbey, St Botolph's Priory lay outside the town walls. It was founded before 1100, but never grew very large.

Two young lads stand by the harbour wall with their strings of onions. With their grimy jackets and trousers, they give every impression of having endured an uncomfortable passage.