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This busy summer scene looks westwards from the pier towards the Wish Tower. Note the rowing boats for hire on the beach with oars propped against the sea walls.

St Mary's, Goudhurst's church, was founded in the 14th century, with its bell tower built in 1640. It crowns the hill, and has many monuments to the Culpepper family.

Neat manicured lawns unfold beneath the Hall and Chapel of Queen's College, crowned by a small but distinctive domed tower.

It dates from 1564, and is a rather long and irregular building, flanked by massive square towers, which are perhaps the remains of an older castle.

Designed by Sir Gilbert Scott, the university building is dominated by its 200 ft tower topped off with a 100 ft spire.

It possesses a rather grand neo-Jacobean Town Hall with a highly decorative clock tower.

The tower is the chantry chapel of St James. It was built to serve the town after development took the main population centre away from the original area of settlement, where the church was built.

The church of St John has a beautiful tower, which overlooks this splendid-looking family home.

It has a very unusual octagonal tower of massive proportions, as shown clearly in this picture.

In 1879 this beautiful bridge of three airy spans, topped with decorative towers, was made free for public access.

The tower has provided a daunting welcome to generations of potential pupils. Although appearing to be medieval, it was designed by Sir Thomas Jackson in 1815.

St John's parish church was rebuilt in the fifteenth century, although the pinnacled tower is twelfth century.

St Mary's Parish Church c1960 The 15th-century stone tower of this Perpendicular church situated in the heart of the old village, with its 17th- century cupola on the stair turret, was heavily

It was designed by Halfpenny, with a later 1839 tower and square spire by Chantrell. The street elevations show multiple bays with doorways with Gibbs' surrounds.

At the back rises the 17th-century tower of St Chad's Church.

A busy funfair surrounds the Martello Tower. This one was number 24 of 103 built along the south coast in the early 1800s as a defence against a possible invasion by Napoleon.

The beach is seen at low tide, with dramatic crumbling cliffs towering up behind.

To the right of the picture, the present-day clock tower, designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield in 1926, is yet to be added.

The church tower houses a peal of twelve bells. In the tiny square nearby are the town's unusual stocks, made from iron.

The tower windmill is currently without its sails. There are tales that it was once used as a smugglers' hiding place for contraband brought up the River Blackwater.

Though the west tower is thought to be medieval, the main body of the church was rebuilt by J A Cory in the 1850s and enlarged between 1869 and 1873.

This view looks northwards towards Tavern Street, with St Lawrence's church on the left; peering over the rooftops in the background is the unmistakable spire of St Mary-le-Tower.

The distinctive tower of the parish church dominates this view, which gives an excellent overall prospect of the Victorian 'new' town of Saltburn, with its symmetrical grid work of streets.

Its characteristic East Anglian Norman round tower is topped by an octagonal 13th-century belfry.