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The church of St Michael underwent alterations in Victorian times, but the tower with its shingled spire dates from the 13th century.

Here we see a typical Broadland brick tower drainage mill. It has four patent sails and a fantail, and drove a turbine pump.

The Guildhall (left) with its tower was built in 1881, and the Town Hall (right) was added in 1887 in commemoration of Queen Victoria's golden jubilee.

The tower with its clock belongs to the Preston Baptist Church; the Town Hall spire can be seen further up Fishergate.There is an interesting diversity of shops, from a plumber's to the Cocoa

Gnosall's church of St Lawrence is largely 13th century, with some fine Norman details and an impressive central tower.

This view from the banks of the River Great Ouse looks towards the village, with the tower mill in the distance.

This view of the great tower shows the neglect from which the castle had suffered.

The church was originally a plain rectangular building with a tower, but by 1852 galleries were added to provide more seating and an organ was installed.

In all these photographs the tower of St Lawrence's church dominates the town.

The mill stands on Wray Common, a brick tower mill with four patent sails winded by a fantail; it was built in 1824 and ceased work in about 1895.

This typical Lincolnshire brick tower mill is powered by five patent shuttered sails and winded by a fantail. It was built in 1813, and worked by wind until 1964.

It opened in 1867, and included a handsome saloon, refreshment rooms, shelters, a pier orchestra and a tower from where one could watch the ships go by.

St Pancras Church, with its lofty pinnacled tower, was built in granite in the 14th century. It was to come to Widecombe Fair that Uncle Tom Cobley borrowed Tom Pearce's grey mare.

The 14th century octagonal central tower is a piece of architectural genius - four hundred tons of masonry appear from the inside to be suspended without any apparent means of support.

All Saints' church, admired for its brick tower, has a nave dating back to the 12th century.

The tower can be seen from miles around.

He had it rebuilt with this pagoda-like tower in 1872.

Uplyme's church tower is 47 feet high and a prominent landmark, once used a triangulation station by mapmakers.

Opposite is the Royal Hotel, with its red brick facade, steep roofs and decorative towers, promising Victorian travellers a sophisticated welcome.

Its tower has a cupola and plaque dating from the restoration after a storm in 1703. Inside is a chapel to St Barbara with a 15th-century picture of her in stained glass.

Dunstaffnage belongs to the period when a determined effort was being made to extend royal power.

The originally 14th-century pinnacled tower of St Mark's parish church watches over Ilkeston's wide Market Place, with the town's war memorial in the foreground.

The children are standing in front of Bexhill's clock tower, which was erected on the Parade in 1902 to commemorate the Coronation of King Edward VII.

This view shows its sloping, circular, cobbled Market Place, with the tower of Holy Trinity Church, now a museum for the Green Howards Regiment from nearby Catterick Garrison, on the right.