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Through the Cloisters to the south-west lies the Birching Tower, used until corporal punishment ceased in the 1960s.

Here we see the two square towers flanking the archway; these are in turn supported by a pair of octagonal towers. Between the two sets of towers there was once a moat spanned by a drawbridge.

There were two towers, one at Fowey, and this one at Polruan, and it was between these that the chain was stretched.

We go north-east to Willesden, an area mostly developed by the end of the 19th century with lower-class terrace housing which swamped the hamlets that made up the parish.

The Norman round tower has a 15th-century octagonal top with battlements. Recent repairs have shown that there is an earlier tower beneath the outer skin of flints.

It was an old Border stronghold, the oldest part of which is the Dacre Tower, an old pele tower, which dates from the 14th century.

Beyond is the late 15th-century church of St Mary; its superb west tower owes its scale and magnificence to the town's medieval wool prosperity, and is something of a copy of Wells Cathedral's sublime

In the centre foreground of the picture stands St Peter's church, intact at this time, built out of locally quarried Triassic red sandstone and identified by its unusual helm-roof tower.

To give thanks for the saving of their lives, they instituted the construction of the twin church towers that once existed at Davington. Thereafter the Reculver towers were called the 'two sisters'.

Some thousand yards from the headland, Beacon Tower was a lookout built in 1674 by Sir John Clayton.

The grandest is the Swan Revived Hotel, whose towering three- storey stuccoed front of about 1840 conceals a 17th-century inn.

Designed by J W Stansby (who also designed the tower of Christ Church), St Paul's was built in 1868-69 at the expense of the Grand Junction Railway Company. The spire was added in 1888.

Brechin's famous landmark is the Round Tower, dating from the 10th or 11th century, and one of only two examples of round towers in Scotland.

The village of Hampstead Norris nestles in a shallow valley, the buildings dominated by the short broad tower of St Mary's church in the background.

The tall west tower has diagonal buttresses, with buttress shafts and pinnacles in relief. Nave and tower are Perpendicular.

Brechin's famous landmark was the Round Tower, dating from the 10th or 11th century and one of only two examples of round towers in Scotland.

Formerly one of the few eight-sailed windmills in the country, the tower is all that remains of the complex of granaries, bakery and mill house.

Great Mill is a yellow brick tower windmill standing on a ridge, with panoramic views of the flat fenland.

The choir and tower date from the 13th century, and the spire was added about two centuries later. The tower is 220 ft high.

The magnificent three-storey porch, England's largest and constructed 100 years after the tower, faces the Market Square.

The 13th-century church with its 15th-century tower stands on the north side of the square.

The ruins include a large shell keep within a rectangular ward, a twin-towered gatehouse, a large D-shaped tower, and traces of a hall.

Changes to the strong tower are the addition of a clock and finials to the four battlemented corners. In the tower hang 6 bells, cast in about 1760.

This mid 15th-century brick tower, here seen in rural tranquillity with cattle grazing, now sits amid football pitches near Boston College's Rochford Campus.