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The Lion is a 16th-century building that may have once been a market house - facing, as it does, onto the market place. Note the proliferation of television aerials in this scene.

Farmers' markets are not only held in villages! These enterprising retailers are taking advantage of a captive market on the Broads.

Warringtonians would probably describe this as Market Gate, but Frith's view records the original concept of 1908 to create four matching corners, 'a spacious circus, perfectly symmetrical in shape with

This is Fore Street, which was built wide to accommodate fairs and markets.

It is surprising that there were not more accidents in the days when the main road passed through the middle of the Market Place.

This looks eastwards up West Street, with hand-carts and horse-carts, and plenty of activity in the Market Place, beside the Town Hall (right).

'Chipping' means 'market' in Old English, and it was as a market centre for the woollen industry that Chipping Campden rose to affluence.

By the 18th century, Bishop Auckland was an important market town at a crossing point of the Wear.

Development along the market place grew in medieval times when wealthy merchants invested in some very grand houses.

The Butter Market was used to sell not just butter but any other commodities that the farmers' wives could sell while their husbands attended the main markets in the town.

Otherwise, the scene is still very much the same on market days, with people trading underneath the market hall and spilling onto the pavements around about as they have done here for

Buntingford was founded in the 1100s and served as a market for the surrounding villages and communities, particularly the settlement at the adjacent Layston.

Two mothers with contrasting baby transport pass the market place. Still a going concern, Hinckley's busy market draws people from a wide area of Leicestershire and Warwickshire.

The High Street approaches the Market Place from the south, slightly downhill beyond the crossroads in the middle distance. The west side of the Market Place is in the distance.

Cheap Street, off Market Place and now pedestrianised, retains its medieval and Tudor character: it has a stream running down its centre in a channel.

In the early 19th century London's growing population was generating increased demand for fruit and vegetables, and west Middlesex farmers and agriculturalists turned to market gardening on a

In the market place is the Guildhall, rebuilt in 1900.

There was a time when Crewe market was at its busiest after 6.30pm, workers having gone home for a bite to eat before coming out to shop.

Bridge Street was one of four main streets intersecting at Market Gate. All were not only shopping streets, but a key part of the regional road network.

The cobble-edged wide Market Place of Kirkbymoorside, on the edge of the North York Moors, still holds its market every Wednesday, just as it has done since medieval times.

One theory is that it comes from the Cornish for 'Market Jew', the Jews in question having arrived with the Romans or been brought by King John to work local mines.

The distinctive cupola and copper dragon weathervane of 1859 rises above the Tolsey House on the corner of Market Street.

Heading south-west towards Dorset we reach Crewkerne, another medieval market town that later specialised in sail- making for the Royal Navy until steam supplanted sail.

The market continues, but it is now more of a flea market and car-boot sale.