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Reputedly England's most haunted village, and a market town in the time of Henry III, Prestbury is now a residential suburb of Cheltenham.

King Street is the location of the former market place, which was built over many years ago. Also along here is the timber-framed Saracen's Head.

This may account for its older alternative name of Market-Jew. The town was also renowned in Victorian times for its cultivation of a particularly delicious species of turnip.

Londoners tended market gardens close by which are now smothered by the buildings of Kensington. In the 18th century it was considered foolhardy to venture here after dark.

Since the 13th century there has been a market here, and the buildings in the town centre reflect a gentle change rather than a dramatic fluctuation of fortune at any one time.

The Market Square has a tradition going back to the early Middle Ages, although the present Square replaces houses destroyed by a fire in 1849.

Great Bardfield once had market rights, but it is now a quiet village. The fountain in Brook Street (left) was installed in 1861 by Henry Smith of Bardfield Hall.

Generally known as 'The Market House', the building is 18th-century in origin and formed a covered area wherein farmers' wives and younger members of their families could display dairy products and similar

Running from the Market Place to the station and level crossing at the bottom of the hill, Berry Lane leads to today's town centre.

The London and Provincial Bank on the corner of Market Street (left) opened in 1898, and is still and impressive structure. Work on surfacing the road with tarmac is still under way.

The market cross, similar to the one at Bungay, housed the stocks until the 19th century.

Sandwiched between St Nicholas Street and the old market place at Cross Cheaping, Bishop Street was one of Coventry’s main shopping thoroughfares.

In 1586 Camden said that Weobley had 'more fair cellars than most market towns of its bigness in England'.

A guidebook in 1795 described Weobley as having 'a few small streets meanly constructed, without either market or traffic'.

Set in the midst of particularly fertile part of the county, Ottery had a market for centuries.

The Market Square is at the busy cross-roads in the centre of this delightful small town.

It was in St John's that the Worcester Pearmain was discovered in 1872 in the market garden of William Hales.

Cockermouth was granted its market charter in 1221, and gradually developed in importance, until it was the chief commercial centre of the old county of Cumberland.

Here we see the early morning scene at the fish market after the catch has been landed and sorted. The auctioneer is at the far end.

The photographer walked away from the river bridge up Hart Street towards the Town Hall in Market Place and turned back by the Bell Street junction to take this view towards the church with its dominating

This view shows a virtually-deserted Market Place at Bawtry, with a 'half-timbered' Morris Minor prominently parked by the old Buttercross.

The market that was traditionally held here was moved away in 1973, but it was recently brought back for a trial period after a campaign by local traders.

The town's reputation for its fine market harks back to the 14th century, when the first rights were granted to the abbot of Cockersands.

This quiet, shaded street offered a little respite from the bustle of the market centre. The jumble of roof lines reveals how city streets often developed piecemeal.