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The market hall dates from the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, and was used as a corn and produce market on the ground floor and a cloth market upstairs.

The bridge is built of ragstone and dates from the 14th century.

The cross dates from the 15th century: the upper part was restored in 1853.

The Hydro had become the Grand Hotel by this date, and it had been extended.

The village, thought to date to Saxon times, takes its name from the nearby hill-fort.

The church of St Peter, standing further up the hill, has a nave and aisles dating from the early 13th century.The town name is believed to have come from the pagan worship of Thunor.

The Lodge, a house dating from about 1500, belongs to the National Trust and houses Axbridge Museum.

The origins of Punch and Judy are in fact Italian, dating back to the Pulcinella of the commedia dell'arte, and first appeared in London in a marionette show around 1666.

Dating from 1220, St Andrew's Church has a commanding view over the village centre.

Bamford's parish church of St John the Baptist is largely a William Butterfield restoration dating from 1861.

The white plastered cottages clustered around the tiny village green and its war memorial date from the 17th century onwards.

The tower dates from the 14th century, and the chancel from the 17th.

The vehicles are up-to-date - a new Austin A30 van is delivering to the shop on the left.

A 'chipping' (market) soon grew up outside the gates.

The woman in front of The Ship is wearing rather dated clothes for 1910 - the outfits of the women in the background are more representative of the period.

I wonder if these parishioners were impressed by its memorial brass portrait gallery, with 50 figures of five families dating from 1498 to 1615.

Tower Street, its houses mostly mid-Victorian terraces and semi-detached villas, some dated 1879 and 1880, has its vista closed by one of England's most stunningly effective buildings: the Boston Stump

On the left outside Hodley's is a poster announcing the postponement of the Ruabon date for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

The elegant double-span bridge over the River Derwent at Froggatt dates from the 17th century; it is unusual in that it has a large, pointed central arch nearer to the village and a smaller one on the

The Crown and Anchor (left) was once a private house; parts of the building are believed to date from the 14th and 15th centuries.

St Catherine's Church is part Norman, and contains monuments to the Phelips family dating from the 15th century.

Known locally as Jacob's Ladder, the original steps date back six hundred years.

This area, however, was already occupied at a much earlier date - a Bronze Age axe was found at a settlement at Llanerch Padarn higher up the valley.

In the distance, to the right beyond the bathing machines, is the distinctive tower of what is now the Harbour View café, at the date of this photograph the lookout for the Coast Watch patrol.