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Closer to the sea, the upper promenade climbs east to pass the Wish Tower with the sea now some way below.

The Franciscans came to Richmond in 1258, and built a small church befitting their commitment to poverty, but this elegant belfry tower was slotted into the crossing of the church between the nave, choir

The great gatehouse sits astride the curtain wall between Caesar's Tower and Guy's Tower.

A pre-Tower picture. Featured here are Dr W H Cocker's aquarium, menagerie and aviary, which occupied the site where the Tower now stands.

The tower of Tower House can be seen at the junction with Cross Hayes Lane (right). Tower House has a long and interesting history.

Despite carrying the title of Ypres Castle in 1912, this structure was called the Badding Tower when it was built in the 13th century, and was a place of refuge during French raids on the town.

Flint was given a large but weak outer bailey, but the rectangular inner ward was supported with towers at the angles.

This tower is on the north-east corner of the fortress's inner wall. The D-shaped tower was much rebuilt in Charles II's reign, when it was made the Jewel Tower.

We are looking down this attractive street to the St Thomas and Newport part of Launceston, where the old church tower is just visible.

This view of the church tower clearly shows the tenuous link between it and the main body of the building.

On the right, the warm, brown fletton brick tower of Sir Giles Scott's Roman Catholic church of Our Lady of the Assumption soars above the surrounding buildings lining the broad street.

Above are the grand 14th-century west towers, and beyond soars the great central tower, 'outstanding even in Somerset, a county famed for the splendour of its church towers' (Alec Clifton-Taylor).

Known as 'The Sisters', the towers are all that remain of St Mary's Church - it was blown up in 1809 to stop it falling into the sea.

These features included a tower-keep separated from the rest of the castle by its own moat, multiangular towers, and ornate machicolations of the type seen here adorning the tops of the hexagonal corner

The commanding view of the town led to number of schemes to erect a monument: the first was to have been the Victoria Prospect Tower in 1849.

It is still a popular tourist attraction - note the figures looking down on the visitors from Marten`s Tower.

The village lock-up and a medieval market cross and bell tower once stood here at the junction.

The village lock-up and a medieval market cross and bell tower once stood here at the junction.

His two sons, Edward and Richard, lived here before being taken to The Tower of London, never to be seen again - they were the two young 'Princes in the Tower'.

In 1892 the dimensions given were impressive: 510 ft long, 80 ft wide, 170 ft across the transepts, a 240 ft high central tower and two west towers each 138 ft high.

The tower, marking the eastern entrance to the High Street, dates back to 1492 and took seventeen years to complete. The delay was probably caused by lengthy financial problems.

Lansdowne Terrace, now the Lansdowne Hotel, and, at the right, the Wish Tower Hotel, was the first major devel- opment west of the Wish Tower; it is in the style of the earlier stucco terraces, with

The tower windmill was built in 1831. Note theThe Norman Gate was built by Abbot Anselm in the first half of the 12th century, providing an entrance gate to the impressive abbey church.

Local legend says that the only survivor of the massacre hid in the tower of the parish church of Holy Trinity.