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The bustling town of Huddersfield, like so many other Pennine towns, was founded on the wealth won from the 19th-century explosion in the worsted and woollen industries.

That careful observer tells us that 'the welthe of the towne standith most by draping, and noe towne of England at this present tyme maketh so many cloathes yearly as this towne doth'.

Shopping trends have changed since the early days of the New Town.

The Westgate Centre, the Eastgate Shopping Centre, and the high street shops in East Walk, Southernhay, and the Town Square give a comprehensive shopping experience, and of course there is the

It is noon, and a convoy of open-topped char à bancs roll into town, no doubt bound for the castle. The hotel on the right has now gone, but the Victoria opposite still serves customers today.

Until the late 13th century, the town of Chepstow appears to have had no defences on its landward side.

The town of Aldershot is largely Victorian. In those early days some of the streets had shops on one side and barracks on the other. The older part of the town lies close to the railway station.

The town has been popular for centuries; as a spa town it was known as 'the Queen of watering places', and it has always been a healthy, bracing and fashionable resort.

The town council still holds its meetings at the 17th-century Town Hall - note its open loggia. The building is owned and maintained by a charitable trust.

The two oldest buildings in Congleton are both inns, the White Lion near the Town Hall and the Lion and Swan shown here. However, Congleton is known as the Bear Town.

The clock tower dominates the main street of this West Cumberland town.

The move to locate the then Town Hall out of the 'old town' was considered bold and proved contentious.

Walsden is a former woollen town in the Calder Gap between Yorkshire and Lancashire, just to the south of Todmorden.

In 1233 the town of Ludlow was given permission to build town walls. Originally there were seven town gates (four main and three postern). This is the southern gate, and the only one surviving today.

Lying in the valley of the Severn, the town does not seem particularly Welsh. Its original name was 'Pool', with the 'Welsh' prefix added to distinguish it from Poole in Dorset.

On the left is the old Town Hall, which was built in 1846; the town fire engine was also kept here.

IN HIS 'Round About Wiltshire' (1901), A G Bradley wrote about Warminster: 'its situation is the most striking feature, for that is beautiful, though there is nothing in the aspect of the town unworthy

The town's name comes from the Anglo-Saxon word for frontier or border.

Incorporation as a municipal borough - which Tiverton achieved in 1615 - gave the town a measure of self-government, and allowed, amongst other things, 'a town-hall, a mace, fine gowns and other gayeties

This is another town that now serves largely as a dormitory town to both Birmingham and the Black Country, and also to the new town of Telford.

The town of Aldershot is largely Victorian; in those early days some of the streets had shops on one side and barracks on the other. The older part of the town lies close to the railway station.

This was how the Town Hall in Albert Square looked twelve years after its official opening in 1877.

There is no such thing as an ordinary street in this town. True, the shops may have similar uses, but the Victorians made the most of the spa town by building wide, airy thoroughfares.

This photograph shows the wide expanse of Westgate, a street typical of the old market towns in the area: there was room for animals being driven to market, market stalls, and all the people who came into