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The long main street in this market town and seaport is thronged with horse-drawn taffic and pedestrians. A coach full of sightseers passes its most important hotel, the Gors-y-Geddol.

Linton had a regular market from the Middle Ages, and it was the last place outside Cambridge to maintain one, but it came to an end around 1860, supplanted by its shops.

The Victorian drinking fountain at the far end of the Market Place was given to Wallingford in 1885 by Alderman Hawkins, who ran a draper's shop, Field and Hawkins, in the town.

Several grand Georgian houses on the Green were probably built for the master clothiers who marketed the famous Uley Blue cloth, which was used for the superfine uniform of the British Navy

Further west the High Street widens out to the site of its medieval market place. This view from beside The Dolphin pub shows how important the Tudor church tower is to the townscape.

Once an important market town, Blandford remains a busy shopping centre, enlivened by the presence of troops from the nearby military camps.

The main casualty in Haywards Heath was the closure of the livestock market, which had at one point in its existence been the twelfth largest livestock market in the country.

The seat of the medieval governance of the city, the Guildhall was built in 1407-13, but 1930s demolition in the market area has exposed the mainly Victorian south elevation to general view.

This wonderful hand-operated water pump is on display under the market cross. It needed the strong iron-clad solid wooden wheels in order to travel over the cobbled streets of the town.

Sitting right on the English/Welsh border, Oswestry has always served as a market centre for a wide area extending well into central Wales. Even today, the Welsh language can sometimes be heard here.

It is situated in the south-east corner of the Market Place.

The first building on the right is the Market Hall, and next to that, in the centre of our photograph, is the Town Hall.

Wokingham's triangular market place is the town's focal point; it is dominated by its red brick Victorian town hall, which is triangular in shape and replaces a 17th-century timber-framed building.

But they themselves had their origins in encroachment on the original larger medieval market place.

The new shops on Broadway are on the site of the former outside market. Also just visible on the left are the new Cornhill shops, which are on the site of the Odeon cinema.

Its name is always pronounced Be'mister as in Barnes's famous poem, and it remains the quaint old market town it always was.

The 14th-century tower and spire of the parish church dominates the market place and school to its south, while to the east, the castle remains combine to produce the classic juxtaposition of lordly and

In the heart of the town the church and the grand Market Hall are the key buildings.

The 15th-century tower of St Mary's church overlooks the Market Place. The roof is decorated with angels bearing the marks of shots supposedly fired at them by Puritan soldiers.

The tramlines moved heavy goods between the Market Place shop of ironmonger Robert Spence and his warehouses in Friars Wynd.

The photographer is standing on the Abbey Green - now one vast car park - looking across the market place and up the High Street.

Viewed from North Load Street, Glastonbury's Market Cross was built in 1846 on the site of a medieval covered cross and fountain.

The market cross bears the date 1674.

The Clock Tower is a modern structure built in 1926 to commemorate Goole's centenary; to the rear is the Victorian Market Hall.