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The castle was enlarged by Richard, Duke of Gloucester, during his spell as Guardian of the Western March toward Scotland, but its career as a fortress was short.

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

Situated almost a mile inland from the castle, Tintagel village has a single plain street, a confusion of antique slate buildings and tawdry modern bungalows and shops.

Handbridge Castle was one of them.

The smooth slopes of Skiddaw dominate the northern Lakeland town of Keswick in this view from Castle Head.

This is not so much a castle, more a country house, built for the first?Earl of Lonsdale by Sir?Robert Smirke in 1806-11.

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.

Riber Castle stands on the skyline, as it does in so many views of Matlock.

This view shows Castle Street before its partial redevelopment in the 1960s.

This group of buildings next to the church was built in the 16th century on the site of a medieval castle. Traces of the motte and the moat are still visible in the garden.

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.

This 15th-century cross lies at a crossroads on the Bristol to Weston-super-Mare road; the adjacent Ship and Castle was a coaching inn. Its lower steps have been buried by the raising of the road.

Dunster Castle, now belonging to the National Trust, was still owned by the Luttrell family at this date; they had occupied it since medieval times.

Clavering had one of the few pre-Conquest castles in England. Its later prosperity, deriving from corn and wool, helped to build the magnificent church.

The 'Kingswear Castle' was built by Philips & Son of Dartmouth in 1924.

The castle withstood attacks from Llywelyn the Great and Owain Glyndwr only to be slighted by Parliament in 1646.

The round building is all that survives of the former castle chapel. It is actually the nave of the chapel; the chancel (which would have been on the right) was long since demolished.

Ludlow Castle has been associated with many monarchs. It was the principal seat of the Mortimer family, one of whom became Edward IV.

This Georgian promenade around the base of the castle provides impressive vistas of the river below and across to the other side.

From the Bay Horse there was a coach to Selby; from the Elephant & Castle there was one to Thirsk, Leeds, York and Harrogate.

On the hill above the town stand the ruins of Knaresborough Castle, which was destroyed by Parliament in 1648.

The smooth slopes of 3,054-ft Skiddaw dominates the northern Lakeland town of Keswick in this view from Castle Head.

Its layout is extremely elongated, with the castle and market area at one end and the church (with presumably the original settlement site) up on the hill on the other side of the valley.

Situated to the west of Stratton, Bude Castle was built on a promontory by Sir Goldsworthy Gurney in 1850.