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This view down St Giles Street has the Guildhall tower in the distance and the 1938 Co-op on the right, a building in Art Deco style.

Rushden, which merges to the north with Higham Ferrers, does not have a great deal of interest architecturally – except for its superb parish church, with a tower and spire nearly 164 ft high.

Originally there were six postern towers; the one at Fishergate is now the only one that remains unaltered. It once overlooked the King's Fishpool.

This view was taken looking over the River Frome towards the 15th-century tower and 1841-rebuilt nave of Lady St Mary parish church (centre top).

Compare this view of St Paul's Church with that in photograph 45443 and you immediately notice the addition of a tall tower which was added in 1907.

Though rather cluttered, this photograph of the street does allow you a distant glimpse of the clock tower at the far end.

Originally a 14th-century defensive pele tower, Sizergh was the home of the Strickland family. The present building is mainly a 15th-century Elizabethan mansion, now in the care of the National Trust.

This view from the church tower was taken looking towards the wooded slopes of High Guards and up the valley of the Yewdale Beck.

The tower was rebuilt in the 1530s, after its catastrophic collapse during the previous century.

Before that, the town's church tower - the tallest in Norfolk - used to be employed as a lighthouse.

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 curious stone tower attached to the Castle Inn, whose sign hangs over the roadway, stands by a bridge over the Toller, or Hooke, shortly before it flows into the River Frome.

St Leonard's Tower is all that remains of a 14th-century church demolished in 1836.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

It incorporates part of the 15th-century Prior Overton's Tower. Note the ornate, ball-topped entrance gate columns, and the earlier priory remains incorporated into the garden walls.

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

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