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This tower mill could be seen working from the St Ives to Cambridge train in the 1950s.

At first glimpse Bibury church, with its castellated roofline and square tower, looks largely 15th-century. On closer examination, however, the fabric's earlier origins become evident.

The red brick clock tower was erected in 1890 to commemorate Queen Victoria's Jubilee of 1887.

The foundations of this 153ft-high tower were sunk 18ft into the chalk, and about 3,600 tons of Cornish granite were used to build it. The light is visible for 16 miles.

The tower is late 13th-century and the spire has chamfers which reach halfway up. The use of alternating bands of limestone and ironstone is noteworthy.

It towers over Stone Bow and is one of the city's finest Victorian commercial buildings.

St Mawes comprises a central tower and three smaller lobes, so that from the air it resembles a clover leaf.

The top of the church tower fell in 1829, which gave it a castle-like appearance. It was not restored until the 1960s. The absence of cars in the square might indicate a Sunday morning.

St Bartholomew's Church was mainly built during the 12th and 13th centuries, but its tower is 15th-century.

The lantern tower of St Botolph's dominates the town and the surrounding countryside. The river flows down into the Wash.

This is another of the Lincolnshire churches that has Anglo-Saxon long and short stone work in the tower.

Beyond the former school and schoolmaster's house is the church, dominated by its 15th-century tower which is over eighty feet high.

A fine stone village a mile from Frome, Beckington has some superb stone houses and a church with an excellent Norman tower.

The fine Perpendicular Gothic 15th-century crossing tower dominates the church. The photographer is facing the chancel.

Whites Mineral Waters was rebuilt in 1994 as a county library, but the battlemented and towered former Drill Hall of 1890 survives.

This view emphasises the fine proportions of the church, with its west tower of ragstone, together with its stair turret. In the foreground can be seen the old churchyard.

In the centre of the photograph is the parish church of St Cadoc with its distinctive tower.

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.