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once described as a pleasant village 'situated on a delightful eminence'; by the early 19th century it was a farming and mining community of over 1,000.The skyline is dominated by the pinnacled tower

building was shortened to about half its height.A lone tram trundles around the corner, and a few cars can be seen.To the rear of the photograph, on the right of the Minster, stands the smaller tower

This view from St Mary's tower has Monk Street in the foreground. Centre left is the Bethany Baptist Church, which opened in 1827 when 30 members left the Frogmore Street Church.

The tall building behind the hip-roofed thatched cottage is a water tower, which has since been demolished. The general stores and fish and chip shop were owned by D A Chatters.

The fine Guildhall and Italianate clock tower of 1859 dominate the old centre of Liskeard; they indicate the prosperity generated during the mining boom of the mid 19th century.

The battlemented tower with its small pinnacle once sported a quaint timber belfry, which rose to a height of 130 feet.

The pinnacled tower, faced in limestone, is of the 15th century, while the body of the church was built in ironstone a century earlier.

We can see the squat tower of St Bartholomew and All Saints' church rising over the roofs. Note the railings underneath the Town Hall, which have now been removed.

The tower is Norman and the roof 16th-century. Here there is a monument to a French soldier, Colonel Coquilin, and his daughter Adeline.

Through the trees on the right (although almost completely hidden now) the tower of St Christopher's Church can be seen.

The church on the right is St Peter's - the town church.The tower was completed in 1758.

sheer bulk of its buildings must have made an imposing sight on the Coventry skyline.The complex included a church about 400 ft long; a cloister on the north side; the west front was supported by towers

The church has a 14th-century tower, and a mural painting in the nave dated 1220. The rebuilt Manor House is nearby. The locality is excellent for rambling over the Downs.

Ardingly is a village overlooking the Ouse valley, north of Haywards Heath.The 14th-century church of St Peter has an impressive tower.

The view from the church tower is of brick farmhouses and brick cottages with picket fences. The original manor house, The Burystead, is late Elizabethan.

Regarded as a defensive liability, it was fortified in about 1500 with a wall and towers, one of which can be seen overhung with ivy above the cliffs.

The octagonal domed tower above the porch was removed in the alterations of 1968.

Beccles Tower, adjacent to the church, was bought by the town in 1972 for one Beccles penny, but over £68,000 was needed to restore it!

This view shows the ornate cast-iron balcony of the Saracen's Head Hotel, now shops, and the tower of St Peter at Arches beyond Stone Bow, built in 1720, demolished in 1933 and largely rebuilt in Lamb

Stafford has two interesting churches.The Church of St Mary has an unusual octagonal tower: it was here that Isaac Walton was baptized in 1593.The other church, St Chad's, was said to be almost derelict

water meadows is a very well known one, and relatively little changed today, although it would look very different to a late medieval traveller – he or she would be able to see fourteen parish church towers

The four-storey keep-gatehouse is 95 feet high, and is flanked by a five-storey round tower. The castle stands on the bank of the River Teith at its junction with the Ardoch.

The west front of Lichfield Cathedral dates from the Decorated period, but most of this amazing display of sculpture is Victorian – only five statues high up on the north-west tower are original.

This is a typical Nottinghamshire brick tower mill, tall and black-tarred. The photograph shows the mill in full working order.