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The 50 steps alongside the wall (centre) lead to a churchyard with one of the finest views in Devon.

The 50 steps alongside the wall (centre) lead to a churchyard with one of the finest views in Devon.

In this photograph we see it as a branch office of the Alliance Assurance Company - notice the Alliance sign on the right-hand edge of the wall.

When the clock strikes the hour the doors slide open and Godiva rides once again, while Peeping Tom (a mythical figure) leers down at her from a niche in the wall above.

The west side, with its balanced Renaissance design, overlooks the lake, which with its meandering curves and seemingly natural islands forms part of the adjoining walled park, landscaped by Capability

The massive twin-towered Westgate is the only survivor of the six medieval gates which once interrupted the path of the Norman wall around the city. The rest were pulled down in 1781.

It was originally the home of the Brigantes, but it was then taken over by the Roman Ninth legion; there are still remains of sandstone walls, a quarry, pavements, mosaic flooring and a stadium.

The Twyn and its surrounding wall were built in the 1890s with money from the Barry Railway Company when they purchased a small piece of the common from the parish.

We have now passed through Stonebow into the southern part of the High Street, which grew up along the old Roman road south of the walled city.

This is the Green Bridge, over which traffic had to pass before entering through the Green Gate in the medi- eval walls.

The main ruins comprise parts of the east walls of the transepts, part of the chancel and a vaulted gatehouse.

The palisade was replaced by a stone curtain wall in the early 13th century.

Situated to the right of the keep-gatehouse is the retainers' hall, a long building with a solid semi-circular bastion halfway along its length. The bastion serves several purposes.

Walls and houses are built of whole flints. The tree bending towards the church reflects the wind-swept character of this isolated corner of Norfolk.

Westgate, dating back to the 14th century, provides access to the south-west corner of the old walled town.

This view captures well the character of much of the Thames estuary: a somewhat bleak, flat shoreline and a smudge of distant chalk hills on the Kent side.

The Victorian Church of All Saints in Harnham was built in 1854 and dedicated to the memory of a former Dean of Salisbury Cathedral.

Within the medieval walls of the castle (or fortified manor house cum bishop's palace) are the living apartments of the bishop: these are complex and varied ranges, with medieval parts jostling with later

Its red tiled roofs and whitewashed walls are clearly visible from Tenby, 3 miles away on the mainland.

This fine study of the Granny's Teeth steps on the Cobb shows the setting of the incident in Jane Austen's novel 'Persuasion' where Louisa Musgrove falls off the wall.

The traffic-free minor road meanders between drystone walls through the dale south towards Grange and Rosthwaite.

The names of the fallen are on plaques built into the gallery wall to the right of the obelisk, which simply states: 'Their name liveth for evermore'.

Note the ornate machicolations adorning the tops of the gatehouse towers; there were also gun-ports at the base of the walls, obscured by bushes in this photograph.

Set behind battlemented walls and surrounded by a moat fed by the resurgent waters, the palace was begun by Bishop Jocelin in the 13th century.