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The building on the left fronts the open market, said to be the biggest in Europe, with access ways running between the shops.

Wrotham stands at the foot of chalk hills alongside the Pilgrim's Way, and was once a substantial market centre.

The village war memorial (right), on the green in Castleton's Market Place, takes the form of a Celtic cross.

Originally one of four market crosses, the Poultry Cross, at the junction of Butcher Row and Minster Street, is the only one to survive.

The head office of the Wilts and Dorset Bank, built in 1869, is now Lloyds Bank, and is just one of a row of substantial, impressive buildings along the northern side of the Market Square.

Here we see the sturdy porticoed front of Botley's famous Market Hall, built in 1848.The turret and clock above were erected by local parishioners to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in

At the other end of the Market Square is the bronze statue of James Boswell, drinking companion and biographer of Samuel Johnson.

We are looking down the main shopping area to the old Market Hall, which was partly demolished in 1992.

It is dominated by its cobbled Market Square, which leads down to the castle, home to the Ingilby family for more than 600 years.

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.

Indeed, some of the early 'villas' built at Southport were in fact little more than up-market thatched residences.

Holt has been a market town since the time of Edward II; the town suffered a major fire in 1708.

Between the parish church of St John and the Guildhall was the old police station (right), demolished in 1963 when the old Market Place was revamped.

A 'chipping' (market) soon grew up outside the gates. This view shows the King's Head, which bears the date 1697.

The broad High Street, once the site of the market established under a charter from Edward I, was, at the turn of the last century, still very much a rendezvous for the cattle and sheep farmers of the

The pavements of Market Street were crowded with pram-pushing mothers shopping for the week's provisions.

Friday markets have been held here for over seven hundred years.

A flourishing market was once held here, though in the 12th century it was sabotaged by Newbury traders who were jealous of its success.

The block of 41 shops facing Market Square was the first to be built. The butcher's, nearest the camera, is certainly attracting window-shoppers. Just to its left is a cafeteria.

These premises were on Market Hill at the top of George Street, opposite the old Corn Exchange. They made way for Debenhams in 1978.

Since 1955 two architectural nonentities have appeared on the right of the photograph to mar the already indifferent quality of the market place, and road markings are becoming a prominent feature.

Note the stocks situated to the left of the base of the market cross.

Note the stocks situated to the left of the base of the market cross.

It now forms a centrepiece to this busy market town, familiar to the many local people who come to shop each week from dozens of surrounding towns and villages.