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The tower of St George's Congregational Church can be seen in the centre distance – it was demolished many years ago.

At the junction with the High Street in the distance there is now a Millennium clock tower in Ham stone.

At the north end of the village is a tall oblong keep set in a neat moat with massive towers at each angle, which was licensed in 1373 for John de la Mare, Sheriff of Somerset.

It was demolished, and Tolworth Tower was built on the site in 1963.

St Mary and St Melore's is basically Norman, large and built mainly of flint; its large squat Early English tower rests on triple chamfered arches and has three wide-spaced single bell openings.

Built by Adam de Rupe in the second half of the 13th century, Roch is noted for its distinctive D-shaped tower.

Looking north, from the lane into the village from Miles Cross, 1868-dated Symondsbury School and tower of St John`s Church in the background can be seen.

The tower dates from the 15th century, and the vestry from the 16th century. A church was recorded as being on this site in the Domesday Book, when a 'ford' was built over the River Cray.

The 13th-century tower windows below the belfry are studded with carved dogtooth mouldings. Beyond is the school of 1874, while the foreground is now occupied by bungalows.

Just off Market Place is the Wainfleet School of 1484, now the public library, another of Lincolnshire's medieval brick buildings, a long first floor hall with giant polygonal towers flanking the west

The castle was remodelled between 1450-57 when a twin-towered gatehouse was added. In 1644 it fell into Parliamentarian hands and was demolished.

This photograph shows the ruins of the two towers at the east end of the curtain wall, the remains of which still stand three storeys high. Hadleigh was a favourite residence of Edward III.

The splendid 14th-century tower and wood-shingled spire of the parish church rise over the cottage roofs. Inside there is a fine old barrel roof and Jacobean pulpit.

In the background, a rare town belfry in the shape of the early 15th-century clock tower rises above the roof of a 16th-century building.

Next door is the church, with its tower supported by sturdy 15th-century beams. The clock was made in Cromwell's time, and the lychgate dates back over 300 years.

This clock tower was erected in 1872, and dominates this small junction in the town.

It was built by Thomas Brassey, a successful railway contractor in a sort of French Second Empire style with French Renaissance overtones, complete with a tall tower.

Behind the cottages on the left towers the gable of the Methodist church, a grandiose building of 1878 where my great-grandfather was a lay preacher and leading light in the village's thriving

With its tower 300ft above sea level, it is probably the town's only building clearly recognisable from neighbouring Cardiff.

In the centre of the photograph is the white tower of the Pavilion Theatre.

A Baines church usually had a strikingly hand- some tower, as this one does.

There is some townscape benefit in seeing more of St Paul's Church spire and tower, I suppose.

This heavily-decorated Victorian building was built by E W Godwin in 1864; as the picture demonstrates, it consists of two storeys with a clock tower, a turreted gable and endless lines of windows.

The domed tower topped with a weather vane housed the public baths, whilst the grandiose hotel catered for the wealthy merchants.