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These half-timbered houses, overlooked by the 15th-century church of St Mary the Virgin, were once homes for local tradesmen from the Jacobean Chilham Castle estate.

These features included a tower-keep separated from the rest of the castle by its own moat, multiangular towers, and ornate machicolations of the type seen here adorning the tops of the hexagonal corner

Here we see the castle after its restoration by the Marquis of Bute. The main residential block, including the great hall, was sited along the south side of the inner curtain wall.

Like its twin castle of Pendennis on the opposite side of the river mouth, St Mawes was built on the orders of Henry VIII to guard the entrance to Carrick Roads.

This post office and hardware shop is near to the church of St Andrew, the church hall that was previously the village school, and the Castle of Comfort pub.

Behind the cameraman lie the castle remains, outside whose gates the medieval market town was established.

At the left is the corner of John Carr of York’s Georgian County Gaol of 1787: no attempt here to match the castle’s Gothic architecture.

There are the earthworks also of the Norman castle in the north-east quarter of the town.

On the east side of the village, this is an undernourished Non- conformist chapel, in a sense a poor relation of the Methodist church in Castle Donington.

Ancient Lostwithiel was once the capital of Cornwall, and on a slope above the town are the ruins of the 12th-century Restormel Castle, owned by the Dukes of Cornwall.

Its ancient castle overlooks the harbour.

background are no longer imposing town houses; one is now the offices of the Phoenix Assurance Co, and the other, Warwick house and former home of brewer Samuel Sketchley, has been converted into the Castle

Instead the carving was in the garden of a cottage called, appropriately enough, The Elephant and Castle.

Its name is said to derive from a Saxon, Gromen (which translates simply as 'the man' or 'groom'), who built a moated castle where the 17th-century private house Groombridge Place now stands.

Although Arthur Conan Doyle set his novel 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' in Dartmoor, he got his inspiration here – the Baskerville family once owned Eardisley's castle and the story of the black

On the east side of the village, this is an undernourished Non- conformist chapel, in a sense a poor relation of the Methodist church in Castle Donington.

The west range of the castle to the right dates back to the 13th century, whereas the heavily fenestrated north range to the left is Elizabethan, the work of Sir John Perrot, half-brother

In the summer, ferries regularly run to Hurst Castle, and there are boats to the Isle of Wight.

On the left are steps leading down to the beach, the Castle Hotel is centre right and a trumpet player is practising front right!

There was a castle here, which was besieged by King Stephen in 1138, but its keep has long gone; only its outline is marked on the grass of its hill at the end of Bailey Street.

This view looks from in front of Exchequer Gate towards the Castle.

At the left is the corner of John Carr of York's Georgian County Gaol of 1787: no attempt here to match the castle's Gothic architecture.

At the left is the corner of John Carr of York's Georgian County Gaol of 1787: no attempt here to match the castle's Gothic architecture.

The only action the castle ever saw was in 1216, when it was occupied by the French at the invitation of the barons rebelling against King John. COMPTON, Loseley