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The turret above the passageway adjacent to the newsagent contains the town's one-handed clock.

High Street c1960 On the left is the Town Hall with its unu- sual lead-sheathed clock turret.

From North Curry, we skirt the south edge of West Sedge Moor to the town of Langport on the east bank of the River Parrett.

The canal arrived here in 1797, and transformed the village into a town.

This splendid town hall was burned down in 1947; it was built in the Market Place on the site of the old town hall, which was demolished in 1862.

When tiring of the cosmopolitan delights of the town, visitors could climb onto the South Downs and enjoy sublime views.

Situated on the Clyde, opposite the mouth of the River Cart, Clydebank was little more than farmland until 1871–72, when J & G Thomson began the construction of a shipyard.

Brecon is a well-manicured town on the River Usk with a smart range of buildings, mainly of the Georgian and Victorian periods, as we can see here.

It was retaken by William de Braose; then, in order to demonstrate his supposed magnanimity to his former enemies, he invited Sytsylt, his son Godfrey and some of their retainers to Abergavenny to

This clock tower monument was erected in 1861 as a memorial to Philip, the eldest son of Sir George and Lady Musgrave of Edenhall, who had died two years earlier in Madrid aged twenty-six.

This is a village in two halves, High Town and Low Town, a quarter mile apart. Land around here was once one of the royal hunting grounds. The White Horse, a chalk hill figure, was carved in 1857.

The small town of Watlington, at the foot of the Chiltern escarpment, used to be famous for its many inns.

From a slightly different viewpoint, this picture looks across Town Hall Gardens and the Chatham rooftops towards the Downs beyond.

Both Back Lane and the High Street were well supplied with inns: the Blue Bell, the White Hart, the Talbot, the Three Arrows, the Dolphin, the Rose.

One of the very finest fortresses in England, Dover Castle dominates the town and harbour below, with the top of the keep standing 465 feet above sea level.

One of the very finest fortresses in England, Dover Castle dominates the town and harbour below, with the top of the keep standing 465 feet above sea level.

This all changed when the harbour was built in 1829, and various mineral railway lines made their way to the town.

St Anne's has been described as 'a town built on golf', and this is epitomised in this splendid building.

Going east from Market Place along Church Street, we reach the small square with the brown stone church on its north side, a curiously villagey one for a town.

Situated on the Clyde, opposite the mouth of the River Cart, Clydebank was little more than farmland until 1871-72, when J & G Thomson began the construction of a shipyard.

In 1722 the writer and traveller Daniel Defoe visited Swansea and commented that Swansea was 'a very considerable town and has a very good harbour.

A canal from Biggleswade to Shefford was built in 1822 and gave the town the status of an inland port, with qa navigable waterway to King's Lynn.

It reinvented itself as a cloth-weaving town, and is today a quaint market town with narrow streets. The Elizabethan town hall is now the museum.

In 1722 the writer and traveller Daniel Defoe visited Swansea and commented that Swansea was 'a very considerable town and has a very good harbour.