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At low tide all that matters is the irresistible combination of a bucket and spade for digging holes and making sand castles.

Dating from the late 11th century, it is still the focus of the castle.

Within the Roman walled enclosure, William I built his Norman castle and moat in the south-eastern corner.

In the distance are the cathedral and the castle, and below is the former race course alongside the river. The woods were given to the City of Durham by Lord Londonderry earlier last century.

The castle was built in 1542 by Henry VIII to protect the harbour along with the fortifications at Pendennis and St Anthony. The Royalists held it for Charles I, but not for very long.

A superb view looking up the Western Cleddau into Haverfordwest with the Castle in the centre and the tower of St Thomas à Becket on the hill overlooking it.

The ancient village of Castle Combe is now famous for its motor racing circuit, but it still retains its old-world charm.

Castle Street runs north from the town centre. Two boys are using the drainage dyke to sail their toy yacht. The town was once a significant cloth-producing centre, renowned for its kersey.

John, Earl of Mar, died in Craigmillar Castle after being over-bled whilst suffering from a fever. Alexander, Duke of Albany, managed to kill his gaolers and escaped down a rope made of sheets.

On the left is a large sweeping brush head trade sign, now in the York Castle Museum: it advertised Seale's Brush and Mat Warehouse.

At the time of this view, it would have been called the Rose and Castle. Since then, it has undergone massive refurbishment and changes of name before becoming The Mill House.

It was damaged during a siege of the castle in the Civil War.

We are looking down the High Street from Castle Street, where Victorian actor Sir Henry Irving was born.

The grounds here were laid out in the 1700s with all sorts of follies - a shell-lined grotto, a ruined castle, a rickety bridge over a narrow chasm, even a resident hermit.

Peveril Castle was originally built by William Peveril, illegitimate son of the Conqueror, to administer the Royal Hunting Forest of the Peak.

Nearby is Castle Drogo, built by Sir Edwin Lutyens between 1911 and 1930 for the Drewe family, after whom the pub is named.

Not far away was once a Norman castle, strategically placed to guard the river valley; it was occupied until the downfall of Warwick the Kingmaker, who owned it in the 15th century.

The castle was restored in the 1930s: the ivy has long gone.

The hall itself, an Elizabethan mansion, was built on the site of a former castle built by the Sheriff of Cambridgeshire after the Norman conquest.

This view looks away from Kimbolton Castle along the High Street.

Trematon was a 12th-century motte and bailey castle. It was extensively rebuilt in the 13th century with a shell keep, bailey wall, and a strong gatehouse on the south-west side.

The great state bed of Haddon was removed during the 9th Duke's restoration, and is now kept in the picture gallery at Belvoir Castle.

Turning left out of Castle Hill, Bailgate follows the course of the Roman Ermine Street towards the old Roman north gate from the city, the Newport Arch.

The original castle was built around 1068 on the site of an Anglo-Saxon fortification. Building continued under Henry I and Henry II after Arundel had become a royal fortress.