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The church at the far end of the broad street is St Peter & St Paul's.

In the background is St Peter's church, close to which is Wolsey's Gate, all that remains of Cardinal Wolsey's efforts to build a great college of secular canons.

Though St Peter's dates from Saxon times, it is believed that Hamelin Plantaganet might have also have rebuilt the church, as much of the stonework is 12th-century.

Little can be gleaned of the appearance of St Peter's church from this picture.

Looking in the opposite direction, away from the coastline, our seaside resort tour peters out with busy Victorian terraces and the taller 1927 building on the right; beyond is the footbridge across the

Dumpton lies within the urban boundaries of St Peter's and Broadstairs; its earlier name, 'Dodemayton', has long been forgotten, as has the hermit Pettit, who lived in a cave at Dumpton.

It was a small quiet village, and used to govern the hamlets of St Laurence, St Peter and St John.

Hever is intimately associated with Anne Boleyn, who spent her childhood here in the company of her father Sir Thomas Bullen, the Earl of Wiltshire, whose tomb is at the little church of St Peter.

The whole scene is overlooked by the tower and steeple of St Peter and St Paul's church.

At the east end of Spilman Street is St Peter's Church, an old building on the highest ground in the older portion of the town.

In the bottom left corner is the tramway that brought ball clay from Peters Marland to the station at Torrington (centre).

Mothers and daughters take advantage of the excellent views of the Severn afforded them from the churchyard of St Peter's.

The church of St Peter occupies an island site where the main street divides.

A fair that used to be held every August (to mark St Peter's Day) lapsed during the Great War.

St Peter's Church contains a cenotaph to Sir John Hawkwood, a Hedingham tanner's son who became a highly- respected mercenary in 14th-century Florence.

Although they became widespread, they did not just develop - they were actually invented in 1930 by one Peter Nissen, a Birmingham mining engineer.

St Peter's Church spire is the landmark further on.

The Church of St Peter and St Paul overlooks the River Tame and was founded c1150 by Osbert de Arden.

They commemorate St Peter and St Paul and four historical characters linked with Malmesbury`s past: Maildulph, St Aldhelm, William of Malmesbury, and the monk Eilmer, whose at flight in the 11th

The abbey church of St Peter and St Paul is all that remains of an Augustinian abbey built on the site in 1170.

Judge William Blackstone, who wrote Commentaries on the Laws of England, paid for the spire of St Peter's Church, which we can see here in the background.

The new church, St Peter's, seems to have been deliberately placed in a prominent position close to the market place and the approach to the castle.

Here is another broach spire, 102ft tall, after the style of St Peter's, Barnstaple.

Water Orton became a separate parish in 1871, and the new Church of St Peter and St Paul was built of brick in 1878-79.