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In the early 19th century London's growing population was generating increased demand for fruit and vegetables, and west Middlesex farmers and agriculturalists turned to market gardening on a

Having curved from the woods on Shapwick Hill (top right) and around Combpyne Hill (centre), the new six-mile railway line from Axminster to Lyme Regis crossed the deep-cut valley at Cannington

Before by-passes and motorways, Gloucester's location as a route centre meant that virtually all traffic from the south-west heading north, and all traffic from South Wales heading east (

This view looks from within the circle, west to the High Street which continues outside the henge.

The centre of Heswall was originally much closer to the shoreline, probably in the area around Village Road and St Peter's Church, but the advent of Telegraph Road - the A540 - has moved the commercial

Beyond, stretching from right to left, is the line of West Street through to the Town Hall and Market Place, with the chimneys of the net-makers Joseph Gundry & Company (centre left), Ewens & Turner in

Here on the High Street was the busiest part of town, once the coaching and postal services began in 1660.

On the west side of the city, towards Fountains Abbey, stands the Spa Baths and Pump Room, opened on 24 October 1905 by Prince Henry of Battenburg.

Around the parade ground there were a bakery, a tailor, a shoemaker, a racket court, a gymnasium and a cricket ground, a hospital and a 20-cell prison.

KIDDERMINSTER has been fortunate in that it has always been a relatively compact town, despite its expansion during the 18th and 19th centuries.

These included the workhouses for Ecclesall Union (in Nether Edge) and for Sheffield Union (at Fir Vale), eventually to become Nether Edge Hospital and the Northern General Hospital respectively

But most of all, Edwards remembered Clay Hill - West Hill as it is now - where he enjoyed the hospitality of Colonel Dennis O'Kelly, and was taken to view his stables.

Preston was always a town that you had to pass through to go north to south, but as the popularity of Blackpool increased, so did the traffic east to west.

A large number of religious houses exist, and there was an Augustinian priory here as far back as 1061.

Summer Hill House, on the west side of Charmouth Road, was the Victorian home of the borough magistrate Walter Banfield Wallis.

It was from here that FitzGerald ruthlessly put down a rebellion in the south-west.

The wide sweep of cobbles and double avenue of trees defines this characteristic view on entering the town from the west.

In 1844, railway surveyors came to this agricultural village with the aim of linking two main lines to provide a route from West Yorkshire to Lancashire and Cumbria.

The village grew up around the fancy goods and woollen fabric trades, so widespread in West Yorkshire.

here were many public houses and inns in the town.

after by every mason and bricklayer in London.

In the distance, high on the hill, stands the abbey, and to the west is the Old Bell Hotel.

Here we have a general view of Halton and its castle from the west.

Beyond, stretching from right to left, is the line of West Street through to the Town Hall and Market Place, with the chimneys of net-makers Joseph Gundry and Company (centre left), Ewens and Turner in