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Freston is well known for the Freston Elizabethan tower overlooking the estuary, the Boot public house, and the parish church.

On the road to Thrapston is a round tower built by General Arbuthnot, a friend of the Duke of Wellington, to commemorate the Battle of Waterloo.

Originally built as an Anglican church in Milton Road in 1834, and then purchased for the Catholic community in 1851, St John the Evangelist had its unusual and prominent tower, with a French-style saddleback

The village church, dedicated to St Nicholas, is Norman in origin and was partially rebuilt during the 13th century.Within a few decades the church was extended; the west tower with its octagonal spire

The slate lantern, part of the adjoining clock tower, dates from 1811, and gives the whole structure a jaunty air. The scene is familiar today, although the traffic has changed.

The much- restored church was first built in the Middle Ages, and the Perpendicular tower is 15th-century.

This view from the Wish Tower looks east towards the Pier: the water's edge is crowded with bathing machines, while the famous Grand Parade with Eastbourne's finest hotels runs along the left of the

The Saxon church is a well-known local landmark, with a distinctive and very unusual cap on the tower known as a 'Rhenish Helm'. This design is quite common in the Rhineland.

Coastal Suffolk may not be the first place you would think of for a skyscraper, but the charming Tudor redbrick folly Freston Tower could fit the bill, albeit in a scaled-down manner.

The Norman tower of St Michael's parish church watches over the busy Market Place of Malton, filled with cars in this picture.

The new Clock Tower is still garlanded from the official opening ceremony.

This view down St Giles Street has the Guildhall tower in the distance and the 1938 Co-op on the right, a building in Art Deco style.

Rushden, which merges to the north with Higham Ferrers, does not have a great deal of interest architecturally – except for its superb parish church, with a tower and spire nearly 164 ft high.

Originally there were six postern towers; the one at Fishergate is now the only one that remains unaltered. It once overlooked the King's Fishpool.

This view was taken looking over the River Frome towards the 15th-century tower and 1841-rebuilt nave of Lady St Mary parish church (centre top).

Compare this view of St Paul's Church with that in photograph 45443 and you immediately notice the addition of a tall tower which was added in 1907.

Though rather cluttered, this photograph of the street does allow you a distant glimpse of the clock tower at the far end.

Originally a 14th-century defensive pele tower, Sizergh was the home of the Strickland family. The present building is mainly a 15th-century Elizabethan mansion, now in the care of the National Trust.

This view from the church tower was taken looking towards the wooded slopes of High Guards and up the valley of the Yewdale Beck.

The tower was rebuilt in the 1530s, after its catastrophic collapse during the previous century.

Before that, the town's church tower - the tallest in Norfolk - used to be employed as a lighthouse.

The building of Holyroodhouse was started in about 1500 by James IV; the work continued under James V, who added a new tower and quadrangle.

The curious stone tower attached to the Castle Inn, whose sign hangs over the roadway, stands by a bridge over the Toller, or Hooke, shortly before it flows into the River Frome.

St Leonard's Tower is all that remains of a 14th-century church demolished in 1836.