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The boat is just starting out from the north end of the Waterway, with the Figure 8 Switchback, the tennis courts, and the 1930s concrete 'castle ruins' in the background.

Belvoir Castle is picturesquely situated some six miles to the west of Grantham, at the foot of a narrow spur jutting up between Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire.

In 1913, the castle was overrun with actors rather than sheep as Marten`s Tower and the Main Gatehouse looked down on the making of the film Ivanhoe.

This view looks down Steep Hill from nearer Castle Hill, with the jettied and timber-framed Spinning Wheel Restaurant on the far left, its later Georgian bow windows tucking under the jetty.

The Castle Hotel on the right is much the same today with the exception of the crenellations to the right. The traffic lights are no longer here, the road being one-way.

A ruined 14th-century double-towered castle stands guard over Loch Ranza. It was here that Robert the Bruce is said to have landed on his return from Ireland in 1306.

King Henry VII spent some of his childhood at Raglan, where the two Williams had transformed a fortified rural manor into a castle fit for a future king.

The well tended beds, paths and raised walkways show that the Abergavenny Improvement Commissioners had an early appreciation of the ruined castle's leisure and tourist potential.

The Macleans paid the price for siding with James VII against William III, forfeiting castle and estates.

The Castle and Ball Hotel has lost its decorative tile- hanging and barge boards; instead, a huge metallic ball is suspended over the pedestrians.

Kingsgate Castle was built in about 1860 close to the sea cliff's edge and the North Foreland itself. It is shown here romantically clothed in ivy.

The well tended beds, paths and raised walkways show that the Abergavenny Improvement Commissioners had an early appreciation of the ruined castle's leisure and tourist potential.

On the extreme left of this picture you can see the Castle Hill Cliff Railway, built to link the towns in 1892. Though only two hundred feet long, the railway rises one hundred feet in height.

Once part of an ancient hunting forest and dominated by a castle, Powerstock huddles in its valley not far from the Iron Age hillfort of Eggardon, in the heart of West Dorset.

The hotel takes its name from the Dukes of Norfolk, formerly the Earls of Arundel, whose principal ancestral home is Arundel Castle.

It is noon, and a convoy of open-topped char à bancs roll into town, no doubt bound for the castle. The hotel on the right has now gone, but the Victoria opposite still serves customers today.

A Victorian guidebook noted that 'the coach excursionist will be saved the trouble of choosing his quarters, as the coaches usually set him down at the Carisbrooke Castle or the Eight Bells'.

Sleaford has fragments of a castle, built by Alexander, the princely Bishop of Lincoln, in the 1120s, but its function as a market town for north Kesteven is undimmed.

Just behind the churchyard lie the remains of a castle: a 20ft motte surrounded by a dry ditch.

Hedingham's dominant feature, the enormous castle keep, looms behind these cottages just to the right, out of picture. Bones were recently unearthed in a garden at Pye Corner.

Next-door-but-one we can see the sign of the Castle public house. Before the mid 1870s, it was called the Tumble-down Dick.

Highcliffe Castle was once one of the grandest stately homes in southern England. Restoration is bringing it back to its former glory.

Castle Mill stands on the River Mole and was recorded in Domesday. It was always a corn mill, and was enlarged in the 1830s with four pairs of stones, storerooms and other outbuildings.

This popular sea town sits on the western shore of the Roseland promontory under its castle.