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Note the handsome facade of the Old King's Arms at the top of the street. The inn is now a carpet shop, though the inn signs above it remain.

The late Norman church, distinguished by its red crenellated tower, contains some ancient wall paintings, including a fresco of the murder of Thomas a Becket.

This view of Windsor is one of the most famous in England, with the great royal castle on its 100ft ridge above the river.

The broach spire of the church with its lancet windows and its tower were added to the original structure in 1870.

Every now and again, the Brothers gather in the mid 14th-century Brethren's Hall for a feast of celebration called the Gaudy Lunch.

This massive-looking church was built between 1867 and 1869 in a 13th-century style to the designs of W J Hopkins. The broach spire was added in 1879. Note the rounded windows in the clerestory.

Every now and again, the Brothers gather in the mid 14th-century Brethren's Hall for a feast of celebration called the Gaudy Lunch.

Tucked away among trees by Pill Hill Brook, Monxton Church, with its shingle-faced belfry and broach spire perched on the gable, was rebuilt in early Victorian times.

Its unusual lead-covered octagonal broach spire was erected in 1389 and, despite restoration in the 17th century, is now slightly twisted. 17th-century decorated floor tiles, made in Barnstaple, can

Built in 1724, Christ Church, on the left, with its broach spire, was extensively modified in 1841 and 1857 before being re-roofed and again altered ten years before this photograph was

This fine Early English church, set back from the village and behind a narrow green, boasts a raised 13th-century chancel and a tapering, shingled broach spire.

Walk along Brock Street, and you reach the quite extraordinary Royal Crescent of John Wood the Younger.

This view, taken from the fields beyond the village, shows the broach spire of the church of St John the Baptist, rebuilt in 1861, rising above the very attractive slate and stone roofscape of a village

This fine Early English church, set back from the village and behind a narrow green, boasts a raised 13th-century chancel and a tapering, shingled broach spire.

On the east side of the village, overlooking the Welland Valley, the church for the most part dates from the 13th and 14th centuries, including the tower and its broach spire.

Sir John Washington, who was knighted by Charles I and was buried in the local churchyard, was the brother of Lawrence Washington, whose son John emigrated to America and became the great-grandfather of

St Peter's is the parish church of Barnstaple. This present building was erected in the 13th century on the site of a previous church.

This church has a connection with the Alps! It contains two special glass windows in memory of the Rev Charles Hudson, who lost his life in 1865 during the descent of the Matterhorn.

Ticehurst is an old Roman habitation near the Kent border. Situated on a hilltop in rolling countryside among hopfields, it has fine views.

Much Wenlock is the most delightfully evocative town, so much so that Ellis Peters (the local author of the Brother Cadfael detective books set in the 12th century) once said of the town that you almost

A Roman basilica once occupied the site of the Green. The quay is in the foreground, with fishermen sitting around and tending their boats.

In AD654 St Cedd, the brother of St Chad, built a monastery here, where St Chad died of the yellow plague in AD664.

The Victoria Statue 1902 Thomas Brock's superb 13ft high bronze statue of Queen Victoria, which stands at the seaward end of Grand Avenue, was unveiled in 1901.

On the east side of the village, overlooking the Welland Valley, the church for the most part dates from the 13th and 14th centuries, including the tower and its broach spire.