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The market town of Bedale is just a few miles to the north-east of Masham.

We are looking across the Market Place. The Market Hall is just visible on the left, and the area beside it still serves as the town's main bus terminal.

The stocks were usually positioned on a main thoroughfare, or better still in the market place; convicted wrongdoers were secured in them by either their legs or arms.

has changed here: the trams have long gone, the Celtic cross memorial to the Somerset Light Infantry's Burma Campaign in the 1880s is now a traffic island further up in North Street, while the open market

Rothwell is an old town with a market charter from King John's reign.

Heading towards Boston, we reach Donington on the Grantham to Boston road, an attractive market town, once the centre of a flax and hemp trade with three hemp fairs a year.

The accountants Forrester Boyd & Co at 7 Corn Market next door have been replaced by Hanson's the bakers, and next door is now the Louth Vision Centre.

Heading towards Boston, we reach Donington on the Grantham to Boston road, an attractive market town, once the centre of a flax and hemp trade with three hemp fairs a year.

Half a century after photograph M116301, the Market place is much tidier, with kerbs, grass and flower beds, and it has parked cars in the centre.

Navenby is a small market town with wide, airy views over the Trent valley to the west. There is a fine church, noted for its Decorated Gothic chancel, and a broad main street, once the market place.

The narrow passage was built in the early 19th century to link the market at the castle with the central market place.

Little seems to have altered in the market place since the 18th century. The square seems quite small now for a town which has had an extremely active market since the 13th century.

Rothwell's most famous landmark, the old Market House, is partly visible on the right of this photograph. Around its cornice are Latin inscriptions and 90 coats-of-arms of landed families.

This imposing building of 1878 replaced an earlier market.

The original market place, as laid out in the Bury St Edmunds' grid pattern devised by Abbot Baldwin in the 11th century, was a good deal larger than it was by the time this photograph was taken.

The narrow passage was built in the early 19th century to link the market at the castle with the central market place.

building is much the same, but the cinema has made way for the Cornhill shops, and beyond the canopy of the Town Hall extension are the new shops which have replaced the outside markets

Chagford is a tiny market town on the eastern slopes of Dartmoor, close to the upper reaches of the river Teign.

Reading's covered market was built in a landlocked site entered via the Corn Exchange from Market Place and the great archway from Broad Street.

A market town since the 13th century, Ulverston became a busy port during the 18th and 19th centuries, exporting slate via the country's shortest canal.

John Abel built a number of market houses around the county of Herefordshire, only a few of which survive. This is said to be one of his although there is no documentation to prove it.

Spilsby got its market charter in 1302, a little later than Alford, and its centrepiece is the rectangular market place.

The lovely market town lies at the entrance to Wharfedale. The bustle of what must have been a market day is evident in the thronging crowds around the clock-tower and the busy road.

Almost the same view as photograph No S48128, but obviously taken on market day. The traders' stalls can be seen on the Market Place, and there is far more activity in the surrounding streets.