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Dedicated to two 6th-century saints, St Mael and St Sulien, this church looks down on the town and has done since medieval times.

Tile-hung walls are a feature of this town, and several examples can be seen here.

The church was founded in 1107 and was the cause of bitter rivalry between town and prior, culminating in each faction building its own 15th-century bell towers.

A celebrated art critic has declared that Edinburgh, Venice and Torquay are the three most beautiful towns in Europe.

Our tour of the towns and villages near Lincoln starts in Gainsborough, a town of the ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Lindsey that ruled what is now north Lincolnshire.

This view looks across the railway and the western Cleddau river onto Quay Street and the town and castle beyond.

Pickering Castle lies to the north of the town and was founded by William the Conqueror, though the earliest ruins date from the 12th century.

Old Sarum, an Iron Age fort, a junction for four Roman roads, a cathedral town and the original Salisbury, reveals its past with this display of excavated artefacts.

A royal burgh and port, Irvine was, by the 1920s, a town of 7,000 inhabitants.

This view, taken from the station, shows the town and Cadair Idris, the River Wnion, the famous 17th-century bridge and tollhouse, and the tower of St Mary's church.

Two hundred and thirty-five years before this photograph was taken, Samuel Pepys visited the town and ate 'very good troutes, eels and crayfish' at the Bear Hotel.

Stourport's close proximity to the industrial cities of the Midlands made the town and the rivers a favourite day out around this period.

When Victoria University broke up in 1904, Leeds was left by far the poor relation, unable to match the financial input enjoyed by Manchester and Liverpool.

Colchester is often described as Britain's oldest recorded town - this was a town of vital importance to the Romans.

Alongside the Market Cross, and also in Blue Lias limestone with Ham stone dressings, is the Town Hall.

Seen from Lower High Street, this was the main A30 through the town and a busy stop for buses and coaches.

We have an attractive glimpse of the medieval castle keep on its mound, which dominates the roofs of the town and the surrounding countryside.

As we can see in this photograph, the market place stands above the main road through the town, and so is often missed by visitors.

This crane is still in use, and can be seen from many parts of the town. Here, it is being used in the fitting out of the Oronsay in Buccleuch Dock.

An ancient town situated on the River Cleddau, it has succumbed to modernisation in recent years. Haverfordwest first developed when the Flemings established a town here and built the castle.

The population of Cheltenham grew from three thousand in 1801 to over thirteen thousand just twenty years later; this was a sure sign of Cheltenham's success as a spa town and residential centre.

Ashford has for centuries been an important market town, and scenes such as this, with the sheep in the middle of the street, were once a familiar sight.

Nowadays the greater part of Poole's population lives in the suburbs that have sprawled across the heathlands towards Bournemouth and Wimborne; but when this picture was taken, the residents mostly

The electric tramway ran from Chester General station through the town and crossed the Dee by way of the Grosvenor Bridge. It then continued to Eaton Park and Saltney.