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From the High Street, walk down Upper Borough Walls on the site of the town's medieval north wall to turn left into Union Street.

The Thames is quite wide at this point, and forms two separate streams as it flows on either side of Nags Head Island.

This final glimpse of old Hastings is a photograph that captures all the charms of the old town, with St Clement's Church at the end of the street.

In 1902 the architect Charles Ashbee brought 100 silversmiths, furniture makers and other craftsmen with their families from London's East End to establish the Guild of Handicraft in Chipping Campden.

Overspending on civic projects is not peculiar to present-day administrations, for the final bill for Rochdale's Town Hall was over 7½ times the original £20,000 estimate when it eventually opened in 1871

Redditch town centre occupies high ground near the northern end of the prehistoric Ridgeway.

The Beaumond Cross at the end of Carter Gate on the southern approach to the town is thought to date from the 14th or 15th centuries, and might be a wayside praying cross.

Joining North Street with Mawney Road, Como Street had to cross the River Rom at the North Street end.

Today, Looe is a fishing and tourist town.

D & E Flack's (left) was a general store and post office serving the area north of the Southend road.

As we look past the children paddling, the seaward end of the pier is terminated by the Kursaal of 1899, replacing a smaller 1888 one that had cost a mere £250.

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

D & E Flack's (left) was a general store and post office serving the area north of the Southend road.

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

Situated at the lower end of the High Street, its peaceful setting almost belies the hive of activity that takes place in the High Street during the summer months when the town attracts many tourists.

Beyond Westgate Street lies woodland and countryside, including Hardwick Heath.

Polegate, with its typical flint walls and buildings, lies just below the extreme eastern end of the South Downs.

A rather flowery title for a small shopping development of the late 1950s on the Fairfield Estate, away to the east of the town's main shopping street.

In the early 1870s, the Duke of Cleveland's estate near to the town centre was given over to development.

The town owes much to the Victorian jeweller Joseph Mayer, who gave his home village a little library in Mayer Hall in 1866.

Next to it stands the newsagent's and tobacconist's shop of the Robinson family, who for two generations served the town and, indeed, had their own blend of snuff.

The brand-new tower of the Town Hall can be seen above the far shops in North End, which today is a pedestrianised road.

Dunmow's Market Place is otherwise known as Rood End.

The in-fill was sand, brought from the southern end of town by means of a specially laid railway line.