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Roman Lanchester, or Longovicium, lies half a mile to the south-west; it was one of the principal forts along the road between York and Hadrian's Wall, and was built about the year 122.

The rest have been replaced by the modern back wall of a stone clad Co-op supermarket. The cottages are clearly in a dilapidated condition in this 1950 view, but their loss is surely to be regretted.

At Parkmill we can see the earth bank or pale, with its wall and inside ditch, which marks the boundary of the deer park known as Park le Breos. The medieval deer-park was divided into three farms.

Here and there a few monastic stones can be found in some Whitby walls and buildings.

These two structures were linked together by high curtain walls. Remodelling went on into the 16th century. The castle might have been provided with some sort of outer defence, such as a palisade.

Weighing 3 cwt it was so heavy that it had to be brought down to ground level, as it was causing the wall to bulge. Near Fernbeck Cottages were found querns and bronze implements.

The school is a beautiful knapped flint and brick structure, and so is its surrounding wall; it was built in 1876.

The contraption on the brick wall of Allin's Newsagents beside the pub is a vending machine.

It had only been intended to rebuild the outer walls but the project became much more ambitious.

It stands in a raised walled churchyard with its four entrances at the compass points.

Bridge Street was known as Beaufront Street until the Middle Ages, and the land still sloped down to the sea until these sea walls were built after the Civil War.

On the right-hand side of the winding village street stand flint-walled houses with brick dressings.

The fine 15th-century tower with its Victorian pinnacles is built in local Wealden sandstone; its walls are the least renewed or refaced part of the church, whose three Victorian restorations

The lock has recently been entirely reconstructed with concrete abutments, lock walls and new timber paddles with galvanised steel walkways on top.

A 14th-century building, it has a strange pew perched up on the wall 'like an opera box'. It also has two rather precious books. One is a Breeches Bible that dates from 1560.

The late Norman church, distinguished by its red crenellated tower, contains some ancient wall paintings, including a fresco of the murder of Thomas a Becket.

At the far right are the wall and railings belonging to the Congregational Church of 1874; its tower was kept when the church was demolished to make way for the Hale Leys Shopping Centre in 1988.

On the left is the Close Wall and St Ann's Gate; on the right the White Hart Hotel stands out, with its giant portico surmounted by the eponymous deer.

The painting on the walls is expansive, and the monuments include one memorial to Lady Farrer, 1892, in Athenian style. She is seated in a chair, with the family standing opposite.

From opposite the Dog and Gun Pub, the camera looks along the straight village street with its assortment of restrained houses, hedges and walls.

Its derivation is probably literal, in that it may well refer to the gallows which were sited at the top of London Road hill, close to its junction with Evington Lane.

The church of St Mary-without-the-Walls was completed in 1887; its distinctive spire is something of a local landmark.

Gone the row of cottages, probably only thirty years old when the photograph was taken, and now gone is the Red House, an 18th-century building behind its boundary wall, but out of sight to the extreme

Built in 1154 by Henry de Essex on the edge of a valley, this high-walled building became the residence of the Archbishops of Canterbury.