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An evocative view from the north-east of the part of the town immediately below the castle and the impressive castle and prison itself.

Bodiam Castle was constructed in 1388, the last castle to be built in England for coastal defence.

The Castle Gatehouse 1898 The tour moves west to a remarkable building.

On the left, the tea tent was run by the Castle Coffee House, based in Castle Street. To the right is a small shed advertising portraits 'painted and finished while you wait'.

The new church, St Peter's, seems to have been deliberately placed in a prominent position close to the market place and the approach to the castle.

The castle is a sad ruin. Alec Clifton Taylor said of it that 'like all flint ruins, it is amorphous and wholly unpicturesque'.

This classic view of the castle contrasts the delicacy of the chapel, with its triple Gothic windows and pinnacled octagonal towers, with the somewhat more robust Windsor-like tower to its left.

Francis Stone's 1811 lodges flank the main entrance to the castle. The bridge of 1825 replaced a crumbling 12th-century one. The austerity of this view is not softened by a few trees.

The magnificent early 19th-century mock-Norman castle is shown here photographed from the park. It was built by the Pennant family on the proceeds of their huge Penrhyn slate quarries at Bethesda.

At this date, buses came up Market Street, around the Square and then proceeded up Market Street towards the Castle and turned left into King Street southwards, towards the south of the city.

It is suggested that the remains of Herstmonceux Castle form part of the oldest brick mansion in Britain; it was built in 1441, following a grant from the king to Roger de Fiennes to ‘embattle’

Here we see the great castle-like north- east corner tower and, to the right, the Great Hall’s oriel bay window and the (now glazed) cupola to vent the hall’s former open fire.

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

St John's church stands in what was the inner bailey of Devizes's castle. A massive tower with a round stair turret dominates this basically Norman building.

Mark Twain expected his perfect piece of England to have a castle and the odd ruin.

In the early 1720s Bishop Wilson was held prisoner in Castle Rushen for nine weeks for failing to pay a fine. In 1722 an ecclesiastical court found a certain Lady Horne guilty of slander.

Today, we know these as the site of Carlisle Castle and, across the narrow valley, Stanwix Bank.

Some of the prisoners fared better because they were held in the relatively healthier environment of Portchester Castle.