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The folly was constructed using stone from the tower of St Lawrence's church, which used to stand on the site now occupied by Royal William Yard in Stonehouse.

This is the highest lock on the River Thames, which was at one time an important artery of commerce and trade. By the time this photograph was taken, though, only pleasure craft plied these waters.

Badly damaged during World War Two, it was finally demolished in the 1950s. Jane Austen knew this church and its minister, the Reverend Richard Mant.

In the distance is the tower of St Lawrence's parish church. Probably built on the site of a Saxon predecessor, it displays some of the best 12th-century Norman carving in the county.

This view looks towards St Lawrence's Church.

Eyam`s parish church of St Lawrence has many memories of the tragic visitation of the plague in 1665-6.

The present bridge was constructed in Barnack stone in 1414, and the chapel of St Ledger (or St Lawrence as some records suggest) was consecrated in 1426.

Positioned cosily under the downs, and with its cluster of thatched and slate-roofed cottages around it, the Perpendicular tower of St Lawrence's Church rises above the surrounding gravestones.

The church of St Lawrence is superbly positioned on the brow of a narrow spur offering splendid views to the north of the Greensand Hills.

This photograph could well be a study in oils, but the church of St Lawrence, standing next to the canal, is said to be large and uninspired.

The small hamlet of Rosedale Abbey sits in the heart of Rosedale on the southern edge of the North York Moors, seen in the background. It was a boom town during the 19th-century iron-mining era.

The house with the two dormers is Lawrence House, now the town museum, and at the far end we can see the gable of Eagle House.

This charming 12th- century church is dedicated to St Lawrence.

The house with the two dormers is Lawrence House, now the town museum, and at the far end we can see the gable of Eagle House.

The house with the two dormers is Lawrence House, now the town museum, and at the far end we can see the gable of Eagle House.

Records show that St Lawrence stands on the site of a Christian church dating back to at least 1108.

It was dissolved in 1535, and remained mostly intact until 1850, when mining brought a demand for housing.

Originally owned by the Priory of St Bartholomew The Great, the estate was acquired in 1709 by James Brydges, later Duke of Chandos. Here he created one of London's great houses.

On St Matthew Street opposite once lay Gilbert's Rugby Football Museum, where rugby balls had been made by hand since the first half of the 19th century.

This separation of St Andrew's Church from the Abbey of Leicester was to save its assets from seizure at the dissolution of the monasteries during the reign of Henry VIII — a fate suffered by both

A majestic yew tree marks the approach to St Lawrence's, which has a west tower of flint and stone blocks topped with early brick.

Here we see the south transept of the abbey before the restoration had taken place, with the spire of St Paul`s in the background.

It was a small quiet village, and used to govern the hamlets of St Laurence, St Peter and St John.

In the heart of the old coalfield, this large village had many inhabitants dependent upon the mine and its good coal.