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With a little stretch of the imagination one can visualise the original medieval town huddled below the abbey and the church.

The name means simply 'long street', and the village is spread along the main road, originally the Roman road running from London to Caistor St Edmund, the Roman town just south of Norwich.

Ivybridge was a modest town when this view was taken. Now it is a dormitory for Plymouth, and has grown dramatically in recent years.

George Smith's Town Hall of 1830, which with its Ionic columns and Tuscan pillars bears a remarkable resemblance to the Corn Exchange at Bishop's Stortford and dominates St Peter's Street and its avenue

The tower of Newbury's splendid parish church can be seen from various vantage points around the town.

This view gives an idea of the regular and spacious layout of the town.

The place also had a Norman earthwork castle, a motte and bailey type; in later years it was a boot and shoe making town, one of several that thrived around Northampton.

The salt industry both here and at Nantwich suffered as a result of the shelving of a scheme to open the rivers of these towns to navigation.

Extensive stretches of the old medieval town walls survive today, and many of the towers and gates are still standing.

Taken from Billy Banks Wood south of the Swale, this distant view shows the defensive site of Richmond Castle, and the town clinging precariously - and picturesquely - to the hillside

Margate suffered from both bombing and shelling during the First World War, and many people left the town.

Salmon still mass below the weirs in spring and the town's former mills have found a new life as apartment blocks.

The Square is the natural focus of this former iron-mining town on the western fringe of Ennerdale and the Lake District hills.

It is said that from time immemorial Love Lane was the place where ladies of questionable virtue would be found, and this is how it appeared a hundred years ago, just out of town.

The Town Hall was designed by Andrews Jelfe, a London master mason in 1743. On Mayoring Day the council members and guests, somewhat unkindly, throw heated pennies to the crowd from the upper windows.

The road from London leads naturally into Cheltenham's High Street, which is one of the original thoroughfares of the town.

Leaving the town centre we move along Church Street to the Missenden Road, just past the junction with Pednor Road and Wey Lane.

The Town of Kendal Kendal—the 'Auld Grey Town' on the River Kent— was founded on the wealth won from the wool of Lakeland sheep.

This was a rural tree-lined road where children could feel at ease and little danger threatened to befall the solitary cyclist.

The town has not always been as peaceful as this picture suggests.

A border town with a ruinous castle built by Henry III, Hawarden lies close to Chester on the former main road into Wales from the Dee lowlands and the Cheshire Plain.

Westborough is one of the main thoroughfares linking the North Eastern Railway station and the town.

Westborough is one of the main thoroughfares linking the North Eastern Railway station and the town.

Paignton's beaches and coves give a combined sea-frontage of over two miles; this led to the growth of the town's satellite villages of Preston and Goodrington.