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A medieval church stood outside the castle walls but it was largely destroyed during the Civil War.

The photographer is looking east from the top of High Street, where there is now a roundabout, with the churchyard walls and lime trees on the left. The wall and railings have now gone.

This beautiful parish church of All Saints was built by the abbot of Ramsey for his manor estate in the late 14th and 15th centuries. The cobble stone walls were all originally plastered.

This view is taken from the steps up to the sea wall behind the dunes, and looks across the small resort of Sandilands, just south of Sutton on Sea.

Its old fives wall (fives is a ball game played in a walled court) was saved and restored.

Moving north, deeper into the Vale of Taunton Deane, we reach the cob or earth wall country, where whitewashed rendered cottages with thatched roofs become common.

After several attempts, the Welsh took it in 1165, rebuilt it in stone and held the first Eisteddfod within its walls in 1176.

This is one of fifteen towers built with the defensive walls of the town between 1284 and 1396.

The phrase 'the weakest go to the wall' reminds us of a time when churches did not provide their congregation with seats or pews.

The main residential block, including the great hall, was sited along the south side of the inner curtain wall.

Part of the nave and the chancel at St Mary's has walls dating back to Saxon times, and the walls incorporate many Roman bricks.

It gives one a strange feeling to stand inside the church, because the main walls of the nave have a definite lean outwards.

After several attempts, the Welsh took it in 1165, rebuilt it in stone and held the first Eisteddfod within its walls in 1176.

St Mary's has been called 'the Cathedral of North Hampshire' and it is said that the arcaded walling around the sanctuary was inspired by Salisbury Cathedral.

The funnels and superstructure of ferries, berthed along Admiralty and Prince of Wales piers, peek above the sea wall. S u s s e x a n d K e n t

The walls of Garston, Waverley and Monks Way (left) face Chapel Cottage, which dates from 1780 and has a fashionable frontage of Ionic pilasters and a pediment.

More tall town houses look out to sea over the sea wall. These are known locally as Albion Terrace.

Here we see a section of Hadrian's Wall near the village of Gilsland. 73 miles long, with seventeen forts, mile-castles and turrets, the wall was one of a number of linear defences built to designate

To the right is Church House, which shortly before this view was taken had ceased to be a farmhouse; the flint walls in front are remnants of its barns, retained as boundary walls.

Inspired by the Theodosian Wall at Constantinople, its use at Caernarvon was deliberate and designed to impress.

The Chequers ceased to be a pub, although traces of the painted signs on the front wall can still be seen.

Equally impressive are its sophisticated water defences, which, together with a formidable concentric walls-within-walls plan, must have made any attack a daunting prospect.

The creeper-covered wall between the iron fence and the cottage gable is in fact the dam wall for the mill. Now a silted up boggy patch, the mill pond can still be made out.

The chancel and south chapel date from the 14th century and the exceptionally tall tower was built about a century later.