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Moving south from Thrapston we reach Raunds, another small Northamptonshire market town transformed into a Victorian boot and shoe manufacturing town.

The clean forceful lines of the neo- classical new town hall were in marked contrast to its rather sedate and friendly looking predecessor, built by the Luton architects John Williams & Sons

The Moot Hall has now been renovated, and looks worthy of its status as the Town Hall. This fine Georgian town house became the Moot Hall and residence of the Town Council around 1800.

Birkenhead, the largest town on the Wirral, was the dream of one man, John Laird.

Chertsey was once the town at the gates of one of the most powerful abbeys in England.

Yet in the last century Basildon has experienced more upheaval and momentous change than most other towns in the land.

The bustling town of Huddersfield, like so many other Pennine towns, was founded on the wealth won from the 19th-century explosion in the worsted and woollen industries.

That careful observer tells us that 'the welthe of the towne standith most by draping, and noe towne of England at this present tyme maketh so many cloathes yearly as this towne doth'.

Shopping trends have changed since the early days of the New Town.

The Westgate Centre, the Eastgate Shopping Centre, and the high street shops in East Walk, Southernhay, and the Town Square give a comprehensive shopping experience, and of course there is the

It is noon, and a convoy of open-topped char à bancs roll into town, no doubt bound for the castle. The hotel on the right has now gone, but the Victoria opposite still serves customers today.

Until the late 13th century, the town of Chepstow appears to have had no defences on its landward side.

The town of Aldershot is largely Victorian. In those early days some of the streets had shops on one side and barracks on the other. The older part of the town lies close to the railway station.

The town has been popular for centuries; as a spa town it was known as 'the Queen of watering places', and it has always been a healthy, bracing and fashionable resort.

The town council still holds its meetings at the 17th-century Town Hall - note its open loggia. The building is owned and maintained by a charitable trust.

The two oldest buildings in Congleton are both inns, the White Lion near the Town Hall and the Lion and Swan shown here. However, Congleton is known as the Bear Town.

The clock tower dominates the main street of this West Cumberland town.

The move to locate the then Town Hall out of the 'old town' was considered bold and proved contentious.

Walsden is a former woollen town in the Calder Gap between Yorkshire and Lancashire, just to the south of Todmorden.

In 1233 the town of Ludlow was given permission to build town walls. Originally there were seven town gates (four main and three postern). This is the southern gate, and the only one surviving today.

Lying in the valley of the Severn, the town does not seem particularly Welsh. Its original name was 'Pool', with the 'Welsh' prefix added to distinguish it from Poole in Dorset.

On the left is the old Town Hall, which was built in 1846; the town fire engine was also kept here.

IN HIS 'Round About Wiltshire' (1901), A G Bradley wrote about Warminster: 'its situation is the most striking feature, for that is beautiful, though there is nothing in the aspect of the town unworthy

The town's name comes from the Anglo-Saxon word for frontier or border.