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This small market town was named after a Danish leader called Herolveston. Harleston has retained its character, and has a good number of varied old buildings.

The originally 14th-century pinnacled tower of St Mark's parish church watches over Ilkeston's wide Market Place, with the town's war memorial in the foreground.

The church was extensively remodelled in 1867, but parts of the imposing building date from the 13th century, when Hemsworth was a prosperous market town.

After the First World War, the former Market Place was congregated here around the 1835 brick clock tower, built on the site of a mediaeval chapel.

Known affectionately as 'The Pepperpot', Godalming's attractive market house of 1814 stands at the junction of three streets in central Godalming.

This was once the town's market place. The later brick frontages here often conceal 16th- and 17th-century timber-framed buildings that had been plastered for preservation.

The covered walks, created by overhanging stories, were the location of two historic parts of the market area. On the right is the colonnaded and heavily shaded Butterwalk; to the left is Birdwalk.

Once nothing more than a tiny hamlet in the parish of Wensley, Leyburn developed into a market town thanks to a charter granted by Charles I.

This photograph shows the Dolphin Hotel on the right of the square, next to the mid 19th-century Market Hall. At one time Botley boasted fourteen inns.

It is difficult to imagine that this peaceful village was a market town in the Middle Ages.

The clock faces on the tower date from 1885.The granite façade of the Town and Market Hall looms behind, with The Queen's Head hotel on the left.

The Town Hall, rebuilt during the 19th century, occupies a solitary position in the centre of a deserted market place.

By the mid 1800s Church Stretton had become a holiday resort for people keen on country walking, and many hotels were established to serve this market.

A large number of the buildings in this photograph are now Grade II listed, but the dishevelled look of the market stalls did little to foster civic pride in antiquity.

As well as being a market town, Ormskirk has a long association with the Earls of Derby who lived at Knowsley Hall.

The village lock-up and a medieval market cross and bell tower once stood here at the junction.

The village lock-up and a medieval market cross and bell tower once stood here at the junction.

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

At the other end of the Market Square is the bronze statue of James Boswell, drinking companion and biographer of Samuel Johnson. His statue was not erected until 1908.

Frost's shop front 1909 Mr Frost's printing works and shop would have been kept busy in a market town like Bridport, producing a local newspaper, bills of sale and stationery for farmers and

Mentioned in the Domesday Book and briefly a spa town in the 17th century, Wellingborough was granted market rights by King John in 1201. Cromwell stayed here en route to Naseby during the Civil War.

Trains were laid on to rush the fish to the London and Midland markets. By 1906 these industries were in decline, and leisure boats were taking the place of fishing trawlers.

On the left is the market cross, which was erected in 1882 on the site of an ancient cross. Edward I granted Flookburgh its first charter in 1412. The old church stood by the trees.

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.