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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.

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.

Like Teignmouth and Lyme Regis, Dawlish was much-loved by fashionable society during the 19th century.

Up until just over a hundred years ago, a watercourse, or lode, ran down the centre of this street.

Some time during the second half of the 19th century, Bracknell became a town, helped by the coming of the railway in 1856 and the development of market gardening and brick-making.

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.

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.

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

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 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

Regrettably, local stone was not used but luckily the house is on the outskirts of town and not easily visible. It was modernised in the 1960s.

Stone proclaims itself to be a 'Canal Town' and reaching it from this river bridge involves crossing the Trent & Mersey Canal.

The town is known as Kington simply because it was the King's town at one time and it is generally assumed that the king in question was Edward the Confessor.

Today the name Long Barn is associated with a modern housing development, but in 1965 the area was still open countryside and farmland.

Whalley is a very ancient town and steeped in history.

Whalley is a very ancient town and steeped in history.

This view was taken looking along the backwater from Abingdon Bridge with the gardens of houses in East St Helen Street on the right and a then well-treed Nag's Head Island on the left.

Terminus Road, laid out in 1850, became a major commercial thoroughfare in the town, and the massive Baroque domed building on the left, sadly now demolished, symbolises the prosperity and pride of the

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

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.