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This is the heart of the town, and markets have been held here for 800 years; the basic size and shape of the market place has remained largely the same throughout that period, as evinced by

This is the heart of the town, and markets have been held here for 800 years; the basic size and shape of the market place has remained largely the same throughout that period, as evinced by

Its landmark features are the ancient Barton Bridge in the centre, also known as Packhorse Bridge, and the spire of the parish church of Holy Trinity to the left.

Beyond, stretching from right to left, is the line of West Street through to the Town Hall and Market Place, with the chimneys of net-makers Joseph Gundry and Company (centre left), Ewens and Turner in

Endowed in the 16th century, the free Broughton Grammar School also took children from Barton and Haighton.

Marks & Spencer had replaced F Spence & Son, a furnishers with an impressive window display.

St Giles' Church is over 800 years old and accepted as one of the most attractive in England.

Looking along the broad sweep of Lyme Bay toward the eminence of Barton Cliff, with the protective harbour walls jutting out to sea, and the signal mast of the coastguard station clearly visible.

Over 20 ships were wrecked in the bay between 1850 and 1917.

The parish boundaries meet here with those of Myerscough and Barton; indeed, one boundary cuts through the Roebuck's bowling green.

In the foreground is Barton Farm, a dairy farm worked by the Chard family.

Barton Bridge closed in favour of road traffic.

In this village churchyard there is a 19th-century memorial to thirty hop pickers who drowned when their cart slipped over a crumbling bridge and dragged them into the depths of the River Medway.

Smithill's Hall occupies a site where, according to tradition, a chapel dedicated to the Blessed Virgin was consecrated in AD793 and the wandering court of King Egbert, father of Alfred the Great, was

The tall building behind Underwood's shop (now The Corner Shop) is the old Harcourt shoe factory - recently converted into flats and a sound studio.

The Nottingham Co-operative Society (centre) is no longer on the left of the High Street - the building is now a pet shop, and the Co-op has moved to a more modern building across the street.

The Nottingham Co-operative Society (centre) is no longer on the left of the High Street - the building is now a pet shop, and the Co-op has moved to a more modern building across the street.

This is all that remains of the magnificent west front of the Abbey, now reduced in height and stripped of its facing stone.

Mr Barton gave the land and £1,000 towards the cost on condition that there should be no pew rents as there had been in the older church.

Tewkesbury's cross stands at the meeting point of the town's three main roads – the High Street, Church Street and Barton Street.

The village gets its name from a Barton (or Berton), the old word for a rickyard.The village church of St James was remarkable for its time in that it was built all at once, and not over a couple

This view shows the two bridges at Barton upon Irwell both swung to let the paddle steamer 'Ivanhoe' pass.

Beyond the tithing of Barton and after crossing water meadows, we come to the pretty village of Bishopstoke.

There are two mill streams, one known as the Barton River, from which water is provided for the Itchen Navigation Canal, and this branch, which follows the Fair Oak Road with Montague Terrace on the right