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The street is dominated by the Italianate clock tower, paid for by Joseph Pease; along with the Town Hall and covered market, it was designed by Alfred Waterhouse and built in 1864.

The body of the church, mainly 15th-century, is older than its Perpendicular tower, which is a local landmark.

A tourist guidebook claims that the towers of no less than 50 churches can be seen from the highest point in the parish.

The earliest building work visible dates from the 15th century, and extensive 19th-century restoration means that apart from the west tower very little earlier work can be seen.

Note the symmetry of this early residential development on Lake Road East with its grand row of houses book-ended by conical towers.

The church of St Nicholas overlooks the village and the sea; it was built in c1500, but its tower formed part of an earlier church.

Here we see the great castle-like north- east corner tower and, to the right, the Great Hall's oriel bay window and the (now glazed) cupola to vent the hall's former open fire.

Ulph's-water', takes its name from the Viking settler Lyulph, whose name was popularised in the 18th century when the Duke of Norfolk, then owner of Greystoke Castle, built the folly called Lyulph's Tower

The four corner towers - of which only two survive to any great height - have walls nine feet thick at the base.

It was here, in the early 15th century, that the rebel leader Owain Glyndwr had his stronghold and seat of power during the rebellion.

Originally early Norman in style, it was altered and enlarged in 1330, and a perpendicular tower was added in the 15th century.

This was the water tower for St Mary's Abbey.

The stone-arched building on the right was the postern tower built in 1497 on St Mary's Abbey walls; it is now an office for First York Buses.

This view is taken from the tower of St Mary's church on the other side of the A283, looking past the old forge with its heavily- pruned lime tree.

The tower, in ruins here, was rebuilt in 1923, and the bells were re-hung in 1925.

Ahead is the Water and Roller Mill, and to the left is the tower of St Gregory's Church, with the workhouse, or Sudbury Union, now Walnut Tree Hospital, in between.

The Town Hall (centre left, with the bell tower) was built by Lord Clinton in 1850 to replace the wooden 16th-century structure which stood at the Bull Ring.

St Michael's church stands on Church Road close to Lower Green. Its predecessor was an important medieval church, but it was almost totally destroyed by fire in 1950, sad to say.

The pinnacled tower of Oakley church has a sturdy staircase turret, a fine Tudor doorway, and a memorial window to William Warham, a local boy, reputedly born at nearby Malshanger House, who

Beyond is the clock tower.

The tower of the 14th- century St Mary`s Church, surprisingly positioned some way from the town centre, rises above the graceful Georgian frontages along this throughfare.

The building to the right of the clock tower is now Mallards Restaurant, and the next one along is still the Prince Regent.

On the extreme right an area has been cordoned off with barriers, and beyond are the towers of hoists and cranes.

Below the towering cathedral are beautiful woodlands, still threaded with a maze of footpaths. The picturesque building below the cathedral is the old fulling mill, standing beside its weir.