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This view looks west on market day. The White Hart Hotel's stuccoed front dates from about 1714. It is currently closed.

A legacy from Allendale's lead-mining and market town days was that it was well provided with hotels, like the ivy- clad Dale Hotel seen here, as well as a number of quality public houses.

The magnificent three-storey porch, England's largest and constructed 100 years after the tower, faces the Market Square.

It grew fat in the Middle Ages on sheep, wool and weaving, and later became a market town. Its broad High Street has a pleasing mixture of half-timbered buildings and elegant Regency houses.

Louth was a prosperous, compact market town serving a large area of the central Wolds.

In medieval times, Snaith was an important trading town - its market charter was granted in 1223.

The pretty village of Elham, at the heart of the valley of that name, is clustered around its market square and this High Street, lined with buildings from several periods.

The town centre is dominated by its very large triangular market place, which in its turn is visually overwhelmed by the mighty church steeple, completed in 1460 and universally known as the Boston Stump

Yalding was once a substantial market centre, but was desolated by the plague four times in the 16th century.

A closer view of Market Place, minus its Saturday morning stalls and with only the refreshment stand by the lamp- post facing onto the 17th- and 19th-century shops and offices.

The railway came in 1848, and by 1890 the town had links with Bradford, Wakefield and Leeds, giving fast access to major trade markets.

The small village of Lilbourne had a market charter granted in 1219 by Henry III, but it clearly never developed into a fully fledged town.

It was built by George Dance on the site of the old stocks market.

The photographer stood with his back to the market place looking towards Bancroft. On the left is the Cock Inn - it was given its name from the cockpit at the rear.

To the left, Eagle Lane climbs towards the west end of the Market Place.

To the left is the side elevation of the Market Hall, and to the right The Royal Clarence Hotel; this is of about 1835, with tall first-floor sash windows and a columned porch.

At the centre of the town is the old Market House with its shallow arched openings and weather-vaned bellcote.

No sooner had Thomas Mildmay obtained the manor of Chelmsford than the townspeople began to clamour for a new Market Cross: the old one was falling down around the judges' ears.

The spire of St Nicholas's dominates the Market Place. In 1857 this Victorian church replaced an earlier church of St Nicholas, which dated from the 12th century - it had a tower.

There was a time when Corbridge held a weekly market, but this petered out as the town declined following the Civil War.

At the time when this photograph was taken, it was possible to hold a cattle market in the broad street of this sizeable village.

This is the corner of Piccadilly, where it meets the top of Market Street. On the left is one of Lewis's entrances. Pauldens, in the centre, moved here after a fire destroyed their store in 1957.

At the crossroads is the stump of a cross, a reminder that in the 13th century, the then lord of the manor, Sir Walklyn Arderne, attempted but failed to found a market town here.

It is still possible to sit here and watch the world go by today, although this open area once had buildings lining the street between the Market Hall and the Mitre.