This priory then parish church with its red sandstone tower, decorated with gruesome gargoyles, contains a beautiful Beer stone rood screen (1459).

The half-timbered Elizabethan Museum (no 70), the dark red brick Manor (now a community education centre), a late 18C Gothic house (in Bank Lane) and other attractive buildings (nos 48 and 52) testify to Totnes' former prosperity.

High on a mound sits the 14C castle, built to strengthen the 11C motte and bailey earthworks. The ramparts command excellent views of the River Dart Valley.

Interesting features include the Guildhall (1553), which occupies the site of an earlier Benedictine priory. The house at no 16, now a bank, was built in 1585 by a local pilchard merchant whose initials are on the façade. The granite pillared Butt..

Just beyond the Arch at the top of Fore Street, turn right up a flight of steps. The cobbled path along the old ramparts leads past cottages with gay, well-groomed frontages.