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Cow Tower was built on the River Wensum in 1378 as a boom tower, controlling the flow of river traffic at the point where the city wall ended.

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 gardens rise steeply behind the cottages, the irregular plots divided by walls and unkempt shrubs.

This photograph is taken inside the walls of the Iron Age hillfort of Worlebury.

A less widely used path is that below the castle walls on the right, which winds around from the main entrance to Mill Street.

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 of the Lake

The forbidding walls that surround the castle can be seen in the background. Originally there were six postern towers; the one at Fishergate is now the only one that remains unaltered.

Within, a curious niche in the west wall may be the entry to an anchorite's cell of c1400.

furniture is changing with the introduction of the ugly concrete street lamp post outside the timber- framed building that was Beach's bookshop.There is a striking coat of arms high up on the wall

The adjoining walls and buildings were subsequently destroyed so that traffic bypassed the gate.

Cannons and a statue can be seen near the Castle walls along the North Terrace. The cannons are still there but the statue has gone.

The figures on the wall are no longer there. Today, the Cockpit is a very popular restaurant.

The eastern buttresses are unusual in that they are extensions of the nave west wall. Below the nave roof is a row of blocked quatrefoil windows, although the aisles were never built.

Burgh was also close to the western end of Hadrian's Wall, and the parish church of St Michael is built within a Roman fort.

Low Petergate (seen in the previous photograph) and High Petergate run up to Bootham Bar, one of York's still surviving medieval gates in the city walls, and to the Thirsk road out of the city.

Belsay was built in the early 14th century, though it is not known if it was protected by a curtain wall or if there were any other buildings. The attached manor house was erected in 1614.

This 14th-century building with its 15 bedrooms and ancient halls boasts a fascinating list of owners including knights, MPs, sheriffs and businessmen.

A painted inscription on the wall claims that The Saracen's Head was built in the 11th century. However, the present building dates mainly from the 15th century.

The mellow gritstone walls of the Peacock Hotel, on the A6 about four miles north of Matlock, are a landmark to visitors coming into the Peak District from the south.

The Grosvenor Hotel in nearby Stockbridge is the headquarters of the club, and the walls of its clubroom are covered with glass cases containing enormous stuffed brown trout, the fish of the upper Test

The side wall of this corner shop in Hartlepool is being used for the once familiar bill boards advertising Hovis bread, Swan Vesta matches and (a more modern product) Danish Lurpak butter.

Down the street the King's Head has closed, but retains its Lacon's sign on the wall. Set back is the Vine Church, a Baptist Chapel rebuilt in 1868.

Opposite is the long wall of one of the substantial villas of this road, Halidon House.