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This, the most westerly town in England, has been raided down the centuries by Spanish ships and by pirates.

Its construction marked the town's commitment to its role as a resort.

A bustling agricultural town and a centre of communications, Ashford was already undergoing a process of extensive and rapid change by the 1950s.

Deal is an elegant town, and nowhere is this clearer than in this view, taken from the Pier pavilion looking back to the town.

A delightful view of Hazelgrove, a popular area of the town for promenading.

A market town like Aylsham supplies a wide range of services to customers in the town and in surrounding villages: here these include greetings cards, a printing service and the supply and repair of televisions

In this photograph we look west from the tip of Mill Meadow Island towards the Embankment and the north bank of the river.

When it was built, the meeting house was actually right in the centre of town, but coastal erosion over hundreds of years has swept away much of the old town, and left the beach almost next door to the

Sir John was born at Dragley Beck in the town, and went on to become Second Secretary to the Admiralty; he decided Napoleon's place of exile.

On the right of the picture is the 15th-century God's House Tower, formerly the south-east gate of the old town and one of the earliest artillery fortifications in Europe.

It is a town full of history - the founder of Yale University in the US (Elihu Yale), came from the Wrexham area, and is buried at St Giles's church.

The wonderfully over-the- top Baroque town hall is a triumph for the town, and much better than the pallid neo-classical one it replaced.

Richard Rigg opened his Windermere Hotel in 1847—the same year as the Kendal and Windermere Railway reached the town— and his yellow-and-black coaches provided a connecting service from the adjacent

In all these photographs the tower of St Lawrence's church dominates the town. And

The narrow steeply- sloping Union Street, east of the church of St James, leads the eye northward out of town and towards the stark ridge of Peaked Down; its visible notch gives the down

A royal burgh and port, Irvine was, by the 1920s, a town of 7,000 inhabitants.

A deck chair and a roll of wire fencing stand outside the ironmongers in Spring Street.

When Victoria University broke up in 1904, Leeds was left by far the poor relation, unable to match the financial input enjoyed by Manchester and Liverpool.

This time the position was right: it was about one and a half miles out of town, and set in the new suburbs along the Cliftonville Road.

Newport has always been an important trading town, and at the height of its fortunes carried goods such as timber, malt, wheat and flour.

It stands above the town, and has staggering views over the Bay, so it is little wonder that the Great Western Railway turned it into a hotel.

Budleigh Golf Club was created on what had been common land on the cliffs to the west of the town, and is now known as East Devon Golf Club.

Described by Pevsner as 'uninteresting', the Town Hall was designed by J W Beaumont and built in 1883-85. The clock and bells on the building were donated by Joshua Bradley.

Broad Street boasts a great variety of inns and hotels.