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To the right, the stone wall is the south boundary of the Grammar School (now Abingdon School) grounds, with Albert Park in the middle distance.

The sign on the dry stone wall reads 'cycles for hire', which would be the perfect transport for a place like this.

At the entrance to the Norman church is a notice that reads: 'Enter this door as if the floor within were gold/ And every wall of jewels, of wealth untold./ As if a choir/ In robes of fire/ Were saying

The 1978 repairs, though, stripped the grey cement wash off the columns and walls, so the interior is now a little brighter.

We can see the magnificent east window of the chancel and the unusual east window of the nave, both almost filling the wall with glass.

Eastwards (right), the other 11 bays are roofless, but the walls survive. Added together they give a length of 276ft, which makes this the longest ecclesiastical barn in the country.

It emerges as one of the largest springs in England, and has been earning its keep as a stone-walled tourist attraction for more than two centuries.

The picture shows the surviving curtain wall facing the River Usk. In the centre is the square gate tower with its arched water gate.

Construction of the hexagonal outer bailey curtain wall, its associated towers and gates began in about 1315, though the northern gateway is thought not to have been completed.

We are looking south-east along Neston's main shopping street, with the wall of St Mary and St Helen's church on the immediate right.

Stone walls, finials, setts, dripstones and lintels characterise Chatburn and the neighbouring villages.

The High Street runs parallel to the north wall of the Abbey precinct and has a good range of Georgian and early 19th-century two- and three-storey houses.

Ozone Terrace is still partly visible (left),and so are weather- boarded Wings and Cobb Gate (centre right) behind the North Wall of the harbour.

It had only been intended to rebuild the outer walls but the project became much more ambitious. The rector in late Victorian and Edwardian times, from 1895, was Rev Henry Farrer.

We can see the signs of the industry in this charming view - crab and lobster pots are stacked on the pier, and the premises of Dawson's, the fish salesman, are beside the sea wall, centre left.

The Local Board have expended £14,000 on a sea-wall and fine esplanade, and the pier, 1,000 feet in length, cost £5,000.

A sun dial on the wall doubtless took the place of the modern-day clock.

One might almost call it a utility building. The walls have been constructed of flints (which are copious in the chalk hills of the South Downs) and edged with stone at the windows and doors.

Scarborough Castle, on the skyline, once stood 100 ft tall, with walls 12 ft thick; the keep was positioned in such a way so as to command the approach to the causeway leading to the castle.

De Vaux Place 1928 On the Salisbury side of Harnham Bridge, De Vaux Place leads to The Close - the Harnham Gate is at the far end of the wall.

This view looks west towards one of two shelters, past the brick-walled sloping bed used for those 'say it wth plants' commemorations so beloved of municipal gardeners everywhere.

There is a modern vicarage to the right, but the boundary wall, railings and gate piers have all survived.

Its church was founded by St Cadfan, whose famous well here was fed by chalybeate springs.

We are in the Cuckmere Valley, with fine views of the scarp side of the Downs.The Dicker, behind the brick wall and trees beyond the pub, is a rather odd-looking mansion, built by Horatio William