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The bridge, with its many arches, each of a different span, is 13th-century.

This masterpiece of grand architecture was built (1902-05) by Sir Aston Webb, who was also responsible for the eastern façade of Buckingham Palace and for Admiralty Arch, both in London.

This area, however, was already occupied at a much earlier date - a Bronze Age axe was found at a settlement at Llanerch Padarn higher up the valley.

From the arches of the Georgian Guildhall the camera looks down White Hart Street.

The photograph depicts the school's magnificent vaulted roof, which consists of four arches and is beautifully decorated with figures and coats of arms.

At the far end of the lane is the Portloe United Church, and just this side of it are the two arched openings of the old village limekiln.

The seven-arched bridge is made from sandstone.

It dates from Norman times, but parts of an older arch, containing some Roman bricks, may be seen in the nave.

We have a good view of the striking and dramatic west front with its trio of huge arches, richly moulded and recessed into the façade, dating from c1220.

Constructed in 1826, and with a single arched span of a hundred and seventy six feet, it was considered an engineering marvel at the time of its completion.

It is hard to believe that the arched bridge, built in 1797 by John Carr of York, used to carry all the main Great North road traffic.

These days, the building houses McDonald's fast food restaurant, who gave the site a much-needed facelift.

Its walls are hidden beneath some rather tatty rendering, but are almost certainly made of granite, which can be seen in the arch below the gable, and in the horse trough in which the little boy

The chancel arch in the church sports an enormous and very striking mosaic, put up in 1905 in memory of the churchwarden`s wife, and made by the craftsmen who had worked on St Paul`s Cathedral.

The viaduct is 105ft high, with its 8 arches each having a span of 30ft.

The church has a Norman nave and chancel, with Norman mouldings to the south door and chancel arch.

Pooley Hall was built by Thomas Cockayne between 1506 and 1509 on the site of a much older house.

Eamont Bridge, just south of Penrith on the A6, takes its name from this splendid three-arched bridge across the River Eamont.

Overlooking the square is an arched gatehouse, built in the 14th century as a defence against Scottish raiders.

The central stream maintains the medieval character whilst the arched lamp holder was one of several erected in the 1890s.

The stonework arches belong to the 1754 replacement for St Lawrence's Bridge; it dated from 1362, and even had a chapel to St Lawrence halfway across.

The toll bridge (cars currently 30p) is just out of picture to the left; indeed, the weir goes beneath its northern arches.

The sumptuous decorations were prepared by several fine artists over a much longer period of time.

The church of St John and St Giles is a largely 12th-century structure with a much-maligned wooden bell-tower.