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There are guardrooms on the top floors: only here are there arrow-loops in the tower walls.

The church of St Peter and St Paul is unusual in having one of Somerset's octagonal towers. Since 1906, the cottage on the left has gone, and the church porch has been rebuilt.

St Pancras Church, with its lofty pinnacled tower, was built in granite in the 14th century. It was to come to Widecombe Fair that Uncle Tom Cobley borrowed Tom Pearce's grey mare.

Our view takes in Werwick's Revolving Tower and shows what working-class people did for their week's holiday: they sat and relaxed and took in the sea air.

Panoramic views of the city can be seen from the top of this tower, which was built in the 12th century to replace a previous wooden castle.

The tower and spire, which reaches a height of 124 feet, were added later in 1891, as a memorial to Freda, daughter of the Reverend Middleton, vicar at the church for 27 years.

The pinnacle to the right of the Victoria Tower has now been restored.

The mill was a Lincolnshire-style brick tower with an onion-shaped cap. It had five patent shuttered sails, as is indicated by the five-way cross on the front of the windshaft, and a fantail.

Note the unbuttressed west tower and the roof of the south aisle in poor condition, just three years before restoration.

Entered through Edgar Tower (just visible here above the rooftops), or through the Watergate, College Green is a delightful quadrangle of mostly 17th- and 18th-century houses, forming part of King's School

North Hill climbs towards High Street, just beyond St Peter's church tower seen in the distance.

It is well-known for its wonderful old church, which has towers built by the Saxons and Normans. It also has a historic old abbey, now a nunnery, with walls of the old Saxon church.

Inside the tower can be found six bells. A replica of this church at nearby Wilsden was also consecrated on the same day, 1 November 1826.

The breathtaking outline of Tom Tower dominates St Aldates on the far side of Carfax. Morris Garages and the premises of Barclays Bank are on the right.

The pretty tower of the 14th-century church is clearly visible here.

There are 13 massive towers in pentagonal, hexagonal and octagonal designs.

Brodick was enlarged when garrisoned by Cromwell's troops, and the tower is a mid 19th-century addition.

Dugberry Hill is on the skyline (right of church tower).

The motte was surrounded by a ditch, but this came within the castle perimeter when the gate tower was built, so a second ditch was excavated.

The second light stands a little way behind, in the town, a much taller tower modelled on the Pharos light of ancient Alexandria.

In the distance, a 100ft tower, a replica of the famous Eddystone Lighthouse, surmounts Hoad Hill.

You will not be able to see this tower again unless you own a wet suit and aqualung, for it slipped into the sea below in 1916.

This was built by R Hesketh in 1867; it was remodelled by J L Pearson during the years 1889-95, when it acquired its tower and spire.

Only the tower of the old church remains - it dates back to c1500. That too was built from Waddington Fell stone.