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A later king, Henry VIII, dissolved the abbey, and only the Spital Gateway remains.The wool industry was delivered into the hands of merchant adventurers, who built the huge perpendicular wool church that

With its Roman remains and castle, Colchester has much to support its claim to be Britain's oldest recorded town.

From there, the Kennet & Avon Canal plunges down the extraordinary flight of 29 locks at Caen Hill to the valley below.

With its bandstand and colourful carpet bedding, it soon became a popular place where Victorian workers could enjoy an hour or two off from the daily grind.

This view, with something of a frontier town feel in 1890, is now the brashly cheery High Street. At this time, though, it is much more sedate.

In the year King Edward VII cut a ribbon to launch London's first electric trams, this small town by the sea still used horses to pull its passenger-laden vehicles.

These attractive 18th-century houses are good examples of houses which abound in this small town. A village sign by Harry Carter dominates the green.

From the sands it is possible to appreciate fully the outstanding position of the houses and hotels high on the Esplanade.

The town is fortunate to have retained so many old and attractive buildings, such as this range of half-timbered cottages that greets those who arrive from the direction of Gloucester to this

origins are unclear, but the most feasible suggestion is that it was the old market cross of Snettisham, which the le Strange family brought to Old Hunstanton when they inherited the estates, and

The Town Hall is the tall building with the clock tower in the centre of the photograph; it was built in 1864 by E W Godwin at a cost of £8,000.

With a new century and a population nearing 165,000 the town increasingly gains the trappings of modernity.

Known locally as 'the church of the four ones' because it was founded in AD1111, St Mary's is the town's parish church.

This view is from beside the Ice House, its balcony covered in creeper, looking back down Castle Hill.

Promotional material published about Redditch tells us that the existing town centre was 're-planned', an innocuous-sounding word which, in this context, really means 'destroyed'.

A River and Rowing Museum opened in the town in 1998.

The gardens behind Bank House, situated in the lower High Street, were given to the town of Stroud in 1930 by Mr Ernest Winterbotham, and were intended as a quiet corner where shop workers could enjoy

This is the A16 coming in from Stamford towards the town centre. Mill Cottage is on the right, and the River Welland is at the other side of the house.

Westgate, dating back to the 14th century, provides access to the south-west corner of the old walled town.

Reaching Spalding we are in the heart of the bulb-growing country; the surrounding countryside is a glorious carpet of daffodils, tulips and other flowers at different times of the year.

Though perilously close to being engulfed by Solihull, Knowle manages to hang on to its own distinct character.

At the top of Pier Hill is Royal Terrace, so named because it was here that the Princesses Caroline and Charlotte stayed when visiting the town early in the 19th century.

When in 1853 the population of Tenby had reached 3000, it was decided that a new cemetery and chapel should be constructed on the outskirts of the town on the Lower Windmill Field.

The iron horse trough was erected in 1919 as a memorial to Lieutenant Howard H Dainton and friends of the 4th Gloucesters, who died in the Great War.