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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.

It is not difficult to hear birds happily chirping here, unlike in our busy towns. The church of St Peter can be found on one side of the river.

St Peter's was originally a chapel of ease to Cartmel Priory, and was consecrated by the Bishop of Chester on 30 June 1745.

This very pretty village with its flint and brick houses and cottages runs south from the main road to its parish church of St Mary and St Peter, which is set high above the lane with the ruins of Wilmington

We end this chapter in St Peter Street, which originally led to the old wooden bridge replaced by the present one further west.

We are looking north across the river toward Bishop's Road, conspicuous by its buses.

The Bell occupies a pleasant site, almost semi-rural in character, tucked away on Old Church Road, with the sandstone tower of St Peter's as a backdrop, and Victorian houses nearby.

The familiar statue of Thomas Gainsborough in front of St Peter's was not erected until 1913. Note the double step from the pavement to the left.

St Peters was designed by architect George Richardson in 1789 (for Robert Sherrard, 4th Earl of Harborough) in the Classical manner that Pevsner describes as 'an attempt at combining the tradition of

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.

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. Little is known about this church, including the date of its erection.

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.

St Peters was designed by architect George Richardson in 1789 (for Robert Sherrard, 4th Earl of Harborough) in the Classical manner that Pevsner describes as 'an attempt at combining the tradition of

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 15th-century local granite and limestone church tower of St Peter and St Paul, heavily restored in 1872 by P W Ordish, shows above the houses of quality which bound The Green.

St Peter's is the only church in the Manchester area to have been commissioned from George Edmund Street.

The tower was built by Bishop Lacy in 1450 with stone quarried from a hillside nearby, and only then did the church receive its present dedication to St Peter - previously it had been dedicated

The former banqueting hall was converted by Bishop Cosin into the chapel of St Peter during the 1660s after the original had been demolished to make way for a mansion.

St Peter's was originally a chapel of ease to Cartmel Priory, and was consecrated by the Bishop of Chester on 30 June 1745.

The fine tower and spire of St Peter's Church dominated much of central Bournemouth, until unkind planners allowed the construction of too many large buildings nearby.

Ipsley was in Warwickshire when it was mentioned in Domesday Book (1086), and only transferred to Worcestershire in 1931. It predates Redditch, but has long since been swallowed up by it.

Note the spire of the 1284 St Peter's Church, the monument, the much-loved 'eyes of Ruthin' (the prominent rows of dormer windows on the Myddleton Arms), and the Georgian Castle hotel (right).

Back on the river, this view looks north-east from the Crowmarsh Gifford bank to Bridge House, with the remarkable spire of St Peter's Church beyond.

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