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The clock tower dominates the main street of the West Cumberland town.

This photograph shows the house with its two towers. The stable block is linked to the house by an archway (right).

The Ypres Tower of c1250 was sold in 1430 to John de Ypres as a house. This is inexplicable, bearing in mind the French raid of 1377. A prison from 1518 to 1865, it is now a museum.

The church of St Laurence dates from the 14th century; its tower was rebuilt in the 1730s.

The tower was rebuilt in 1635 and a modern Lady Chapel was added in 1920; its roof is lined with heraldic shields.

The clock tower dominates the main street of the West Cumberland town.

In this view we see the shape of the original tower of the church, which was damaged by fire in 1902 and rebuilt by the Marquis of Zetland.

This is probably the most beautiful of all Leicestershire churches, floating here above the trees and grassland, its magnificent late 15th-century tower dominating the market place and the south side of

On May Day morning a famous Oxford tradition is upheld when the dons and the Magdalen College choristers gather at the top of the Perpendicular bell tower to sing a Latin hymn.

The clock tower is sixty metres high, and is visible from afar. The architect was E A Rickards, a devotee of the baroque style.

Jumbo can be seen to the right of the town hall's soaring tower. The lower archway of the three within the castle was a fireplace.

The clock tower has been incorporated in the tourist information office.

The steel towers stand 360 ft high and are supported on granite piers. The deepest foundations are 88 ft below high water.

The Peel Tower on Holcombe Hill was erected in 1852 to the memory of Sir Robert Peel.

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

Shepherd's Crag towers through the trees over the Victorian Gothic buildings of the Lodore Hotel at the southern end of Derwent Water.

Behind (centre left) stands the tower of Holy Rood parish church.

It was restored by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in 1877, though the corbelled turrets on the tower are early 19th-century additions.

The details on the towers are particularly remarkable. This is a comparatively modern building - it was built between 1875 and 1900 by the Rev Whitewell Elwin.

Set in parkland, the four-storey battlemented central section of the castle is supported at each corner by a three-storey round tower. There is an older building to the rear.

Here we see the view southwards along South Street, from the taxi rank (left) to the tower of St Mary's Parish Church (right of centre). This was the B3157 to West Bay and Burton Bradstock.

The tower from which this photograph was taken belongs to one of three churches that occupied a single churchyard.

Then the City Corporation filled in a reservoir and demolished the water tower to make this delightful park.

Another famous monument, the round tower at Bowen Craig, commemorated the defeat of the Norsemen in 1263.