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The original clock tower stood in an area known as The Shambles, and was surrounded by small shops.

The Cow Tower, with barges moored nearby, looks out from the edge of Cowholme, now in the riverside walk park, to the late 19th-century city expansion beyond the Wensum.

It was built in the 19th century in 14th-century style; its fine octagonal spire graces its western tower.

The church of St Peter, with its unusual saddleback-roofed tower, dates from Norman times.

On the summit is a watch-tower dating from the Napoleonic Wars, and an archway made from the jawbones of a whale.

We can just see the twin-towered gatehouse.

Willington is today overshadowed by the massive cooling towers of the huge power station to the east of the village.

Horse-drawn vehicles ply the High Street on a summer morning; a sign on the clock tower directs visitors to the sea-water baths and the pier. Note the poster for Rose's lime juice, right.

This rather ponderous Victorian Gothic building, designed by Raphael Brandon (1817-77), is faced in ironstone, with a heavy spire and tower.

Slighting, however, was carried out to varying degrees: Nottingham Castle was all but destroyed, but at Newark the three-storey gatehouse, three towers and the curtain survived.

This view of the Heights of Abraham above Matlock Bath shows the Prospect, or Victoria, Tower.

An excellent view of Saltburn parish church with its distinctive tower, something of a landmark in Saltburn.

An interesting view of Loftus, again showing the towers of the Catholic church and the town hall.

It has a Norman flint-built round tower, and a shingled octagonal spire. It is one of the three Norman round towers of Sussex.

When they see it from the road or the nearby railway, travellers are puzzled by this church with towers at both ends.

Farnham had been an ecclesiastical estate since the 7th century, but it was Henry of Blois, Bishop of Winchester from 1129-1171, who began building a castle when he ordered the raising of a motte and tower

This view from beside The Dolphin pub shows how important the Tudor church tower is to the townscape.

The enormous proportions of the castle can be seen in this view of one of the three entrances to the castle, Constable's Tower. Today, the castle is in the care of English Heritage.

The church is Norman in origin with later additions, including the 15th-century tower.

There is a twin-towered gatehouse to the landward side, and square towers at each corner of the curtain wall. There is little information as to who owned Pennard, or who even lived in it.

The famous twin towers of the Norman church, built on the site of an earlier Saxon abbey and the centre of the Roman fortress of Regulbium, built around AD 280 by Carausius, were for many centuries a landmark

St Mary's with its late 13th-century tower dominates the east side of the village green. On the south side of the tower is a recess which may once have held a monument.

St Mary's with its late 13th-century tower dominates the east side of the village green. On the south side of the tower is a recess which may once have held a monument.

Spreading cedar trees frame this southern aspect of St Katherine's Church, with its Early English tower with a weathervane, stuccoed walls and Norman nave.