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In the distance you can see that the number of Martello Towers has considerably decreased.

Levens Hall is a fine Elizabethan mansion built for the Bagot family around 1580, again around a 14th-century pele tower.

It was badly damaged by German incendiaries in March 1941 and subsequently restored, but the highest tower in this picture was never rebuilt.

The parish church features a 12th-century nave and north aisle, and a 15th-century tower. The area around the chancel arch includes some stonework from the village's Saxon church.

On the right is the truly remarkable red-brick tower of St Nicholas church, built in 1735 by Lord Petre of nearby Thorndon Hall.

The Windmill c1955 The large brick-built tower-mill still stands. It dates from 1817.

The building of Holyroodhouse was started in about 1500 by James IV; the work continued under James V, who added a new tower and quadrangle.

The striking tower of St Mary's Church looks out across Wallingford's picturesque Market Place. Much of the church was rebuilt during the 19th century.

Leland the traveller recorded that only one tower and a little stonework from the castle remained at the time of his visit.

This church is built of coursed brown rubble and has a south-west tower with spire.

In the distance is the tower of St Mary's, founded shortly after the Norman Conquest but almost totally rebuilt in the 14th and 15th centuries thanks to endowments from local salt merchants.

The pinnacled tower of the parish church of All Saints at Hunmanby, eight miles south of Scarborough, dominates this photograph.

In the background is the tower of the parish church.

The hollow circular tower is open to the elements, and provides a good home for hundreds of pigeons. It is over 100ft high, and is divided into four storeys.

Old Mote House, its predecessor, was the childhood home of Elizabeth Woodville (1437-1492), mother of the 'princes in the tower'.

The Italianate, red brick Market Hall with its imposing clock tower was built in 1857, and still forms the centrepiece of the town's lively regular outdoor market.

Sandgate Castle, built in 1573, was so altered in 1806 to make a defence against the feared invasion by Napoleon that it resembled the Martello towers built along the coast (see centre

The church is an angular, aisleless flint building with a tall nave and an impressive west tower with stepped battlements.

The battlemented parish church of St James in the former lead mining village of Bonsall dates mainly from the 13th century, and has a distinguished pinnacled tower and spire built in the

When this photograph was taken, the tower mill which overlooks Burwell was still fully functioning.

The church is Georgian, and is built of faced ashlar in a plain but impressive style with Venetian-style windows and a small tower with an octagon top.

For instance, the hole at the top of the tower was left to allow a clock to be fitted.

This view looks towards Lendal Bridge and the towering bulk of the Minster.

It has a brick tower which once had four patent sails and a fantail. It was converted to a private house in 1902. The scene is now little different from that shown in the photograph.