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The 20th century, however, saw the oysters blighted by disease, floods and harsh winters, and the industry finally petered out in the 1970s.

Situated at the west of end of St Peter's Street, this fine Regency terrace was constructed between 1827 and 1831 on the site of the bowling green to provide houses for 20 middle-class families.

This event survives as Horndon-on-the-Hill Feast & Fayre, which takes place at the end of June, to mark St Peter's Day.

The village's mid-Victorian Baptist chapel stands close to the 13th-century church of St Peter and St Paul.

Trendy Top Pic fashions have moved into Milling's old shop, but Peter Leigh & Son's traditional grocers survive next door.

The spire of the Norman church of St Peter and St Paul can be seen above the trees.

Continuing north-west towards Felbridge from the Moat Road junction we see the Italianate Church of Our Lady and St Peter, looking south east.

He was also responsible for rebuilding St Peter's, Harborne.

Looking up towards St Peter's Church, it is easy to appreciate Colchester's early appeal as a defensive settlement: the steep approaches would always have stood in its favour.

In 1844 it was acquired by the Dean and Chapter to use for St Peter's School, which had outgrown its former site.

Much Wenlock is the most delightfully evocative town, so much so that Ellis Peters (the local author of the Brother Cadfael detective books set in the 12th century) once said of the town that you almost

The magnificent 15th-century church, dedicated to St Peter and St Paul, was funded by local merchants.

The foreground is now the east part of Peter Pan's Adventure Island amusement park.

Visit the church at Yateley, and have a look at the glass in the 13th- century east window: it depicts Peter and John, and is the work of William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelite artist Sir Edward Burne-Jones

St Peter's was originally a chapel of ease to Cartmel Priory, and was consecrated by the Bishop of Chester on 30 June 1745.

The bell came from the mortuary chapel at Ayot St Peter, to whom it had been donated by Charles Willes Wilshere of The Frythe in 1876.

The church of St Peter can be found on one side of the river.

The parish church of St Peter and St Paul has a 12th-century base, which was subject to the chancel being widened in the 13th century, and the bell tower being added in the 14th century.

In the latter part of the 19th century, Royle Hall was the home of Canon Arthur Townley Parker, the long-serving incumbent of St Peter's.

The church of St Peter, standing further up the hill, has a nave and aisles dating from the early 13th century.The town name is believed to have come from the pagan worship of Thunor.

The steeple of the 12th-century church of St Peter and St Paul collapsed in the 17th century.

We are standing on Winckford Bridge across the Chelmer - described by Peter Muilman in his 1769 'History of Essex' as “a handsome bridge built of wood, painted.”

This event survives as Horndon-on-the-Hill Feast & Fayre, which takes place at the end of June, to mark St Peter's Day.

After 1855, the town was developed mainly by Peter Bruff, who built Marine Terrace, the central row of houses in this picture.