Can you identify these pictures/places for Cathy?

Hi James - what looks like York to you?

Thanks Peggy will start looking at that possibility.

i stayed in york 2 yrs ago for 3 days and did a couple of walks around the city walls the slope up to the wall looks familiar, as does the street.

i could be wrong  

I am almost 100% positive now that the first one is Broad Street Ludlow, Ron do you think you could move it to the right place?

I haven't been able to find anything so far on the internet that has a mural tower like this, the shape seems to be quite uncommon.  I have searched all the photos I can find on the internet for York and Ludlow but nothing matches.  I have googled mural towers, curtain walls, priories, abbeys, castles, walled gardens, etc, and still no luck.

Stephanie I think you must be right with Bromyard, I had made a note that I thought it was Bromyard area, but was hoping to find more detail.

Thanks to everyone for help and suggestions so far, I'll keep on hoping that POE members come up with the solution.

That is a fabulous offer, many thanks Stephanie (you are an early riser!)

I have the advantage of our time zone being two hours ahead of yours, so it only looks as though I get up early

I think I would accept Bromsgrove as the placing of the kiln/oast house and farmhouse photo, so perhaps Ron you could move this one as well, sorry it will not have a better description.

But the castellated/crenellated/battlemented wall has me totally stumped.  Have looked at thousands and thousands of  pictures, have checked out what information is available on licences issued by the crown allowing someone to add this fortification feature and nothing, absolutely nothing matches.

The closest I have come to finding anything remotely similar is/are:

Ludlow: looks like the right colour and style of stone but no picture has shown a wall like this and nowhere have I found any mural/bastion tower of this design (anywhere);

Eastor: has battlemented curtain walls, but the style is not the same

Arundel: has battlemented walls, very well covered with pictures, but again no matching tower, and the walls seem much higher

Penshurst Place, has similar walling but the finishes on the merlons and the coppings are different as is the bottom of the wall.

York, crenellated walls but much greyer stone and larger blocks.

However, I still feel that it could be Yorkshire and would like to put this on the genealogical Yorkshire sites and ask them, also the Hereford & Kent gen sites, but how would I link it to this picture on POE for anyone to view it?

Hi Cathy ML. This is the link to give them:

http://www.picturesofengland.com/England/Oxfordshire/Oxford/pictures/1108221

and I'll move your other picture tomorrow.