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As we move further west, we see a part of St Mary's Street with an interesting mix of buildings with alleys leading down to the river front and The Meadows.

The St Mary's we see here was only a few years old, and is possibly the sixth church on the site. The 1898 version was completely destroyed in a wartime air raid, along with much of the town centre.

Pleasington Priory, a Roman Catholic church dedicated to St Mary and John the Baptist and built in 1819, is set on a hill on Pleasington Lane, close to the River Dunsop and Witton Park, Blackburn.

Billingshurst is a Roman settlement on Stane Street. St Mary's church, built on a mound with access to the churchyard via a causeway, is shown in the photograph, and has Roman bricks in the walls.

By 1931, the redevelopment of St Mary's Square was complete. The river to the east of the church has been widened and landscaped, and bridges built to the north and south of the Churchyard.

Looking at this view, it is difficult to envisage the hamlet of Keninton mentioned in the Feet of Fines in 1232.

St Mary's church, here without a tower, became a church centre in the late 1980s. The post office and adjoining house remain, but there have been many changes since 1960.

There is no mention of a church here at the time of Domesday, although there was woodland for 100 pigs.

The church of St Lawrence originally belonged to the Abbey of St Mary at York and income from it was used to support the Priory at Wetheral.

A small village on minor roads near to the Surrey border.The church of St Mary Magdalene has two historic 14th-century brasses.

Prominent for many miles, St Mary's has dominated the hill since at least the 12th century. It has always been an extremely important church as a peculiar of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

In 1066, William, Duke of Normandy, having landed at Pevensey to claim the English throne from King Harold, marched here and built a timber castle.

One of the oldest surviving fragments in the town, this 12th-century arch now forms the entrance to St Mary's Passage, a narrow path running down towards the meadows.

A nearby vantage point at Combe hill is 638 feet high. The village church of St Mary's is an Early English building with an ancient chest and coffin.

One of Newent's present day tourist attractions is the Shambles, a museum of Victorian life that has its entrance in Church Street, a little way up on the left in this picture.

This is St Mary's parish church in South Street, seen from the north-east.

Much of 18th-century Stamford's trade came from its location on the Great North Road, and it had numerous coaching inns.

A postman on his round chats to two local residents opposite the King's Head pub (right), where empty barrels and several crates of bottles await collection by the brewer's dray.

The abbey was founded in AD670 as a nunnery by Sexburga, widow of Ercombert, King of Kent; the original building was burnt by the Danes.

THE CHURCH of St Mary the Virgin is a Grade I listed building of cruciform plan. Much of it is in Perpendicular style (although Norman features remain), and there are later additions.

St Mary's Church sits at the end of a little lane off the A34. A 14th-century building, it has a strange pew perched up on the wall 'like an opera box'. It also has two rather precious books.

Castle Street is 'the finest Georgian street in Cornwall', according to Sir John Betjeman, who knew a thing or two about the county.

Castle Street is 'the finest Georgian street in Cornwall', according to Sir John Betjeman, who knew a thing or two about the county.

The mid 12th-century Great Hall of Robert le Bossu survives in Castle Yard; up to modern times it has been in use as an Assizes Court and Crown Court.