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Jaywick is divided from Clacton by a golf course and a Martello Tower. This became a popular holiday area after Jaywick Farm was sold following the farming recession of the 1930s.

The belfry, built in an interesting style found in several Essex churches, has a sloping tiled roof placed between the various stages of the tower. This is surmounted by a spire.

The banks of this river tower over most of the buildings in the village, such is the shrinkage of the local peat landscape.

Only the tower survives intact, and the brick nave was built inside the ruin in 1672.

The ornate, lantern-towered and mullioned structure was built for Lord Justice Francis Rodes to a design attributed to Robert Smythson in 1584, and remains in private hands.

The church with its elegant 15th-century west tower is well worth visiting for its medieval woodwork, including the benches and roofs.

The great gatehouse and mural towers of the outer ward were probably built during the reign of Henry III.

Seen here from the tower of the Town Hall, the rather bulbous layout (which, it has to be said, is less noticeable from eye level) could, with imagination, have been improved so as to relieve the 50

The corner tower houses the Black Staircase, which when completed in 1662 was free-standing, even though it rises through four floors.

Though built of quality stone, the Town Hall, designed by Reginald Edmunds in the 1930s, has little in the way of decoration; in that respect it is eclipsed by the ornate clock tower erected to the memory

The church was built in Norman times, and the squat tower was given its belfry and battlements in the 15th century.

The tower of St Mary's Church rises over the rooftops to the left of the picture. The portico of the Lion Hotel is seen on the right.

The avenue leads to the superb west tower of Saints Peter and Paul church. Its grandeur recalls the pre-boot and shoe era of the sheep trade, from which the town gained its earlier wealth.

The main buildings are 1868-dated Symondsbury School (centre) and St John the Baptist Parish Church, with a clock and six bells to its embattled tower.

The 85-foot high functional-looking white tower of the North Foreland Lighthouse was built in the late 17th century.The light, 188 feet above high water, is visible for 19 miles.There is said to

A principal feature of the new buildings were the four Italianate towers constructed of Ruabon red brick.

The 15th-century tower of the church stands on Norman foundations, and houses the tomb of the last abbot of St Augustine's abbey at Canterbury who, at the time of the Dissolution, was given the manor

The parish church of St Mary is built of local cobbles, with a fine tower that was rebuilt in 1688 using 13th-century materials.

The west tower was originally built as a two-storey porch in c1030, and the aisles were added around the year 1200.

The brick tower windmill of 1770 and 1890 survives, minus its sails, and has been well-converted into a house.

The church of St Andrew, Gothic in style, was built in 1887 to replace one built in 1773; a planned tower never materialised.

The tower of the church of St Peter was rebuilt in the 18th century after the previous one fell down.

The small louvered bell tower overlooks a playground still in use. New substantial dwellings for the town's burgeoning middle class rise up towards Beacon Hill.

This Victorian snapshot of what is arguably the country's most famous landmark gives us a westerly view of the spectacular Bell Harry Tower.