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A classic English market, surrounded by a variety of shops, meets on Wednesdays and Saturdays, drawing visitors and traders from far afield.

Leyburn, once the largest community in mid Wensleydale, boasts three squares, the largest of which is the sloping, rectangular Market Place, from which the High Street seen here leads.

This photograph shows the Dolphin Hotel on the right of the square, next to the mid 19th-century Market Hall. At one time Botley boasted fourteen inns.

Thame became a market town during the 13th century, and its importance as a commercial centre is still evident today.

This ancient market town clings to the limestone bluff of a gorge carved by the River Nidd, and is famous for several reasons: it boasts the oldest woollen mill in England, Mother Shipton, a 15th-century

The buildings on the right replace medieval market place encroachment.

Once nothing more than a tiny hamlet in the parish of Wensley, Leyburn developed into a market town thanks to a charter granted by Charles I.

About a hundred years before this picture was taken, Tunstall market was always busiest on Saturday evenings, and like the one at Crewe probably stayed open until 10pm.

Bus shelters, one with a shopper waiting, occupy Tudor Square, once called Bally Green, at the end of Market Street, which is Dalton's main shopping street.

Here we have a closer view of the Market Cross, showing the vast amount of setts needed to cover the road. Streets such as this are often wrongly described as cobbled streets.

J E Hall, the People's Outfitter, faced opposition from Hepworth's and was further endangered when Collins China Store moved to Market Street, allowing the Fifty-Shilling Tailor to move next-door (later

The town is already heading down market and away from James Atherton's ideals.

Main Road c1955 Once the market town for Northumberland's principal lead-mining area, Allendale Town also lays claim to be at the geographical centre of the UK.

West Hill House, right, at the corner of Market Hill and Quarr Barton, is Grade II* listed; it was the home and surgery of Dr James for 42 years.

This memorial to Admiral Blake stands in front of the Regency Market House. Erected in 1900, it reads: 'Robert Blake, born in this town 1598, died at sea 1657'.

This small market town was named after a Danish leader called Herolveston. Harleston has retained its character, and has a good number of varied old buildings.

The originally 14th-century pinnacled tower of St Mark's parish church watches over Ilkeston's wide Market Place, with the town's war memorial in the foreground.

The church was extensively remodelled in 1867, but parts of the imposing building date from the 13th century, when Hemsworth was a prosperous market town.

After the First World War, the former Market Place was congregated here around the 1835 brick clock tower, built on the site of a mediaeval chapel.

Known affectionately as 'The Pepperpot', Godalming's attractive market house of 1814 stands at the junction of three streets in central Godalming.

This was once the town's market place. The later brick frontages here often conceal 16th- and 17th-century timber-framed buildings that had been plastered for preservation.

The covered walks, created by overhanging stories, were the location of two historic parts of the market area. On the right is the colonnaded and heavily shaded Butterwalk; to the left is Birdwalk.

Once nothing more than a tiny hamlet in the parish of Wensley, Leyburn developed into a market town thanks to a charter granted by Charles I.

This photograph shows the Dolphin Hotel on the right of the square, next to the mid 19th-century Market Hall. At one time Botley boasted fourteen inns.