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Ascend the clock tower of St Nicholas's parish church and see six of the county's major rivers - the Humber, the Don, the Went, the Ouse, the Trent and the Aire.

This pleasant market town sits on the road from Thetford to Norwich, and was once a resting place for pilgrims – it still has a fine Guild Chapel dedicated to St Thomas à Becket.This well-maintained timbered

Behind the wide verge with its young trees is the churchyard of Holy Trinity. The dilapidated church was rebuilt in 1827 to a Georgian design of the then vicar, Thomas Scott.

St Mary's Church is on rising ground west of the town, with Lowndes Park to its north and east and The Bury to its west. The large cruciform church dates back to the 13th and 14th centuries.

The south aisle now displays the 12th-century reliquary casket of St Petroc, although it is empty.

It is faced in hard, local Mountsorrel granite, with alterations and the addition of a north aisle by William Parsons in 1842 (see St Mary's, Bitteswell).

Warrington's Town Hall was originally Bank Hall, built between 1749-50 by the world-famous architect James Gibbs as a home for a local businessman, Thomas Patten.

This enabled the trust fund that had been established by Sir Thomas Preston for the secret support of Jesuit priests in the area to be used to build the first Catholic church in Ulverston.

This pleasant market town sits on the road from Thetford to Norwich, and was once a resting place for pilgrims - it still has a Guild Chapel dedicated to St Thomas a Becket.

His successor, Henry II, gave the manor of Luton to his illegitimate son Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and a new church was built south of the present St Mary's.

A casualty station was set up there during the air raids on Cowes on the night of 4 and 5 May 1942.

St Peter's was originally late Norman, but virtually rebuilt in the 15th century.

The road on the right leads to the church, dedicated to St Mary and built between the 12th and the 15th centuries.

The corner shop, here selling crockery, tin bowls and leather bags, is now Peter Briggs, a shoe shop, but it remains largely unchanged, even preserving the same windows we see here.

The corner shop, here selling crockery, tin bowls and leather bags, is now Peter Briggs, a shoe shop, but it remains largely unchanged, even preserving the same windows we see here.

This pleasant market town sits on the road from Thetford to Norwich, and was once a resting place for pilgrims - it still has a fine Guild Chapel dedicated to St Thomas a Becket.

The Esplanade, also behind the photographer was paid for by Thomas Colfox and opened in 1897 as part of the celebrations of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee.

The 15th-century parish church of St Mary the Virgin is built of Mendip lias and Doulting stone, and has a stone spire 108ft high. The piers of the aisle arcades are 14th-century.

In the 15th and 16th centuries, the Herbert family prospered in their family home at Raglan Castle. Three members of the family are buried in this chapel in three magnificent alabaster tombs.

Thomas Webster commissioned The Elms, and Edenfield and Fairlawn followed after, mansions with wonderful views over the Ribble estuary.

The busy A59 road now divides Gisburn, but it still has its cobbled forecourts and white cottages in the main street. Here we will find the Ribblesdale Arms.

Whilst a driffold was set up near to the manor to impound stray animals, the area around the parish church was developing apace.

There was John Lewis Jacquet, the postmaster, who soldiered on at his work until he was 79, or Thomas Butcher, the auctioneer, who had cried the lots at the Spread Eagle; both were the sons of

Up to 20 stables ran their horses on the gallops at Six Mile Hill.