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The turret above the passageway adjacent to the newsagent contains the town's one-handed clock.

From North Curry, we skirt the south edge of West Sedge Moor to the town of Langport on the east bank of the River Parrett.

Moving east off The Wolds, our tour reaches the flat land between them and the sea, with its high line of rolling marram-grassed sand dunes as a backdrop.

The two townships of Poulton-le-Fylde and Hambleton, linked by the bridge, were villages when the bridge was first built to serve agricultural communities.

This splendid town hall was burned down in 1947; it was built in the Market Place on the site of the old town hall, which was demolished in 1862.

Situated on the Clyde, opposite the mouth of the River Cart, Clydebank was little more than farmland until 1871-72, when J & G Thomson began the construction of a shipyard.

Going east from Market Place along Church Street, we reach the small square with the brown stone church on its north side, a curiously villagey one for a town.

When tiring of the cosmopolitan delights of the town, visitors could climb onto the South Downs and enjoy sublime views.

It was retaken by William de Braose; then, in order to demonstrate his supposed magnanimity to his former enemies, he invited Sytsylt, his son Godfrey and some of their retainers to Abergavenny to

This clock tower monument was erected in 1861 as a memorial to Philip, the eldest son of Sir George and Lady Musgrave of Edenhall, who had died two years earlier in Madrid aged twenty-six.

Brecon is a well-manicured town on the River Usk with a smart range of buildings, mainly of the Georgian and Victorian periods, as we can see here.

This picture, taken just where the A469 road to Bargoed turns to the left, shows what a diversity of shops and amenities existed in a town of barely 5,000 inhabitants.

The small town of Watlington, at the foot of the Chiltern escarpment, used to be famous for its many inns.

The town's identity is linked to the magnificent white horse cut into the chalk hillside, a landmark which guides the traveller.

From a slightly different viewpoint, this picture looks across Town Hall Gardens and the Chatham rooftops towards the Downs beyond.

This all changed when the harbour was built in 1829, and various mineral railway lines made their way to the town.

St Anne's has been described as 'a town built on golf', and this is epitomised in this splendid building.

As part of a commitment to education, the Wheatsheaf pub and King Edward VII School had to make way for a new College of Advanced Technology on Market Hill in 1957.

It is thought that the church steps were originally built in the early 14th century to enable access to the church from the old town, and at that time the steps were wooden, not stone.

We are looking from the Town Hall down the grand vista of the largely 18th-century Market Place; it was known as the Shambles in the previous century, and designated for the sale of fresh meat

And fair enough - the road signs to Chelmsford do not shout 'Historic Cathedral City' - they say things like 'County town since 1250', or 'The birthplace of radio'.

Princetown is an unlikely spot for a town—1400 feet above sea level, on an exposed col between North Hessary Tor (top left, without the TV mast that adorns it today) and South Hessary Tor, and with

Military flags hang on the wall of the north aisle (left), for the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry has close associations with the town and church.

The creeper-clad Dinorben Arms Hotel (left) and the Eleth Hotel provided good quality accommodation in the 1930s.