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At the heart of the old village to the west of the Doncaster Road is the parish church with its fine Anglo-Saxon west tower.

Straight ahead is the clock tower; this was a water tower supplying Warsash House, which King Edward VII used to visit when he was Prince of Wales.

A brick tower mill, this was photographed at about the time it was purchased by a mill enthusiast for preservation. The brick tower is tarred black for extra weather protection.

Its 14th- and 15th-century tower features a first-floor room protected by a portcullis. The tower might have served as a defensive position during Scottish raids.

Its bricks were later used to build the towers we see here, known locally as the 'two sisters' (see Davington).

On the skyline you can see Darwen Tower. Built in honour of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, the 85ft tower is 1,300ft above sea level.

It can be seen in the baptistry under the west tower, although repair records from 1409 suggest that it was originally in the central tower.

This is the main shopping street, and it leads up to the Victorian clock tower at one end from the railway station at the other.

The tower was known locally as Smith's Folly.

This was probably a pele tower, and might well have been the only stone building of any substance in Penrith at the time.

Masonry rises on the skyline from the Butavant Tower (left) and the walls of the west bailey to the 80ft-high keep and the south-west gatehouse.

The eccentric Hadlow tower is seen here looming over the roofs in the background.

The magnificent three-storey porch, England's largest and constructed 100 years after the tower, faces the Market Square.

The simple but somehow graceful shop fronts have gone, although the buildings remain, including the Old Fire Station of 1873, with its prominent tower.

It was designed by William Eade of Ipswich, who used a variety of 13th-century Early English Gothic features, with a rose window in the gable and squat towers.

Henry II's great keep stands high above the mural towers of the inner bailey. It was under Henry and his son Richard I that Dover was transformed into one of the greatest fortresses in the kingdom.

This is the main shopping street, and it leads up to the Victorian clock tower at one end from the railway station at the other.

Further west the shore bulges out round the promontory of the Wish Tower, in fact a Martello tower or fortlet built in large numbers to defend the coast from Napoleon.

Further west the shore bulges out round the promontory of the Wish Tower, in fact a Martello tower or fortlet built in large numbers to defend the coast from Napoleon.

The north-east tower is known as Belted Will's Tower, named after Lord William, who as Warden of the Marches took great delight in hanging wrongdoers from trees in view of the castle.

Above are 14th-century west towers, and beyond the great central tower soars, which can be seen from many locations in the low-rise town and beyond.

Close to the road, the solid but impressive ashlar tower dominates the immediate street scene with its substantial angled buttresses and crocketted finials; these are not 15th-century, but were added

Here we see the remains of the great triple-towered gatehouse. It is thought that Edward I's engineer-architect Master James of St George was responsible for its design.

The thatched clock tower at Houghton was erected in 1902 as a memorial to Potto Brown`s son, George.