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Its graceful parish church, dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul, is dominated, as is the town, by its octagonal crossing tower.

The church of St Peter ad Vincula has a shingled broach spire. We can see a fine smock windmill in full working order in the left distance.

This view from the river shows almost the whole village, including the church of St Peter, whose tiny churchyard is a designated conservation area with particularly interesting ferns, lichens and flowers

The TGWU building stands at the junction with Worcester Street. This was known as Coffee House Number Four before the union bought this building.

We are on the Downs, just north of Seaford.The church of St Peter has a fine Norman fonty. Admiral Walker, who fought with Nelson, is buried here.

Rossall Hall, Peter Hesketh's ancestral home, became Rossall School on 22 August 1844.

Top left: Nether Edge, first developed residentially in the Victorian period, is noted for its tree-lined streets.

Top left: Nether Edge, first developed residentially in the Victorian period, is noted for its tree-lined streets.

The later image shows that the aspect of St Peter's Square is more open, with a lifted tree canopy over Bunyan's head and the removal of the railings around the gardens behind the statue.

St Peter's School stands at the top of School Hill. During May 1941, Heswall was bombed, the school lost three classrooms and the headmaster's daughter and her fiancé were killed.

At the top of Church Hill we find this Swedish-style church, built in 1902 at a cost of £2678.

The house, which was at one time the largest building in the north of England, was built by Sir Nicolas Sherburn (Shirburn) around 1690.The estate was left to a cousin (named Weld) who gave it to the

We are looking east along St Peter's Street, where much on the south side has changed.

Edmund Davis, who lived in Sowell Street, St Peter's, bought the building; he added a concert hall and baths and landscaped Victoria Gardens.

The name Lampeter derives from Llanbedr, or St Peter's, to whom this church is dedicated. It is the third church on the site; this one was designed by R J Withers in 1867.

It was built in 1850 by Joseph Kaye, who was well-known in the town as a merchant, a brewer and the owner of four mills at Folly Hall.

Chenies, a mile downstream from Latimer, takes its name from the Cheyne family who held the manor from the 13th century until the 16th century when it passed, through the marriage in 1526

At right angles to Windsor Street, Guildford Street has seen many changes since the 1950s. In the distance in this view are the trees of St Peter's parish churchyard.

Originally it was only served by a Congregational Chapel, but later acquired an Anglican church, St Peter the Apostle, seen here from a field, now a car park, and a Church of England primary school.

East of the Misbourne, beyond Gravel Hill, Chalfont Common was one of Chalfont St Peter's three commons.

Our look at the fine schools of Bedford moves north beyond St Peter's Square to Bedford School. This had its origins in the free school founded by Sir William Harpur in 1566.

St Peter's Church is still there.

During the 15th century, Headcorn was a cloth-making centre which prospered with the arrival of Flemish weavers, and its single, long street has several fine buildings dating back to that time.

This is another view of Lower Eype from further to the south-west, closer to the cliff above Lyme Bay, looking inland to Mount Lane and St Peter's Church (centre).