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During the 19th century the borough council were desperately seeking new fresh water supplies for the town.

Billy Hole, whose newsagent's, stationer's and tobacconist's shop we see on the left, was an interesting character.

From there, the Kennet & Avon Canal plunges down the extraordinary flight of 29 locks at Caen Hill to the valley below.

W H Smith (right) has gone, and since 1994 the shop has been owned by an antiques dealer.

The strangely landlocked lighthouse was safely positioned away from the cliff edge but not too central in the town, where the smoke from coal fires might have obscured the light.

Holt, between Fakenham and Cromer, boasts a wealth of fine Georgian houses, which huddle haphazardly around its broad market place.

This is a view over Low Town from about one hundred feet above the Severn.

Their clothes were strong, too, and water-resistant, especially the knitted jumpers which were made in the town with specific designs for individual families, a very similar idea to the tartan of

The sign for the King's Head Inn is on the right of the picture, although the King's Head itself is in fact on the opposite side of the road standing next to the International Store.The old Town

This view and 27204, pages 72-73 are well away from the town; the banks are consequently more thinly populated and the boats, punts and skiffs far fewer than one might expect.

Yorkshire Street was one of the main shopping streets in the town.

On the extreme left is Palmers, with John Bull tyres and cycle lamp batteries on display in the window.

Now very popular because of its proximity to Preston, Longton has burgeoned into a dormitory town with its own medical centre and library.

Beyond the route suggested in this chapter, which finishes at Bedford Park, the 1950s and 1960s expansion of Bedford to the east was well planned with parks, shopping parades and schools - many of the

This chapter finishes with a flourish in Glastonbury, one of England's most historic smaller towns, a major centre of pilgrimage in the middle ages and still regarded by many as of mythic importance.

The horses and ponies which pulled the carts were stabled behind the town's many inns, where they were fed, watered and rested, ready for the journey home.

The centrepiece of the town is undoubtedly the great 15th-century mansion of the de Burghs, the Old Hall, set in a grassed square surrounded by Victorian housing.

The streets are packed with onlookers, and anxious officials wait by the entrance to the site of the new town hall.

Addlestone grew up in the mid 19th century with the arrival of the railway, when a few villas and many more terraces and pairs of artisan houses were built.

Originally with its ground floor open behind the arches, it was left unfinished, amazingly, for over three centuries, and finally completed in 1895.

The Circus, in the town centre, is where five roads meet.

They sacked a number of towns, including Durham and Hartlepool, while Robert reduced England's Scottish possessions to a handful of fortresses.

The town owes its very existence to the building of the Ellesmere Canal (as it was then called) by Thomas Telford and William Jessop in the 1790s.

One early change was the construction of the large building halfway along on the right which is one of the town's two fish- and-chip shops.