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Jane Austen visited the town and adored the setting, capturing her enthusiasm in her novel.

The shopping parade was built between 1960 and 1966 by Wallis, Finlay, Smith & Ball on the site of a house of some historic interest called Fountainville.

For so long Eastleigh has been synonymous with marshalling yards and the grime of the railway age.

Its surroundings are pleasant without being spectacular: 90% of Staffordshire is rural, and nowhere in the town, not even in the very centre, is one ever far from the countryside.

Cottages sit beside Skilling Hill Road in a panorama eastwards across the double vales of the River Simene and the River Brit.

The tower of Holy Trinity church is just visible above two fields in the centre of town, and terraced houses along Bodmin Road and the Workhouse can be seen towards the left of the picture

After Weymouth harbour was dredged and improved in 1888, larger ships joined the trade routes between the town and foreign ports.

This pleasant scene, just three-quarters of a mile from Park Square, is a good indication of the rural nature of the town and its economy at the time.

Once the port for Canterbury, Fordwich was a town when Domesday was compiled.

Its appearance was much the same in a town guide of 1961, when it was advertised as having central heating with fires in all rooms.

Leading off the north-east corner of the market-place, Red Lion Lane emphasises the local market-town character of Aylsham.

Leading off the north-east corner of the market-place, Red Lion Lane emphasises the local market-town character of Aylsham.

At the turn of the century Wetherby was described in some tourist guides as 'a town of no interest'.

In the foreground there appears to be an event at the YMCA, and the general view over the municipal park shows another gathering in the gardens, perhaps related to the same event.

It was bought in 1879 by William Rock, a son of the town who had made his fortune in London before returning home.

The waters of Stock Ghyll rise just below the summit of the Kirkstone Pass, north of the town, and plunge through this wooded gorge before joining the River Rothay and eventually entering

Jane Austen visited the town and adored the setting, capturing her enthusiasm in her novel.

A motte and bailey castle, one of the earliest in England, was erected here soon after the Norman Conquest, for at that time Norwich was an important town and a major port.

St Wilfrid's Church dates back to 1865, and contains a stained glass window dedicated to two brothers.

The Cross is the name given to this road junction in the centre of the town, and does not refer to the drinking fountain pictured here.

On Saturday 30 November 1745 a small advance party belonging to Prince Charles Edward Stuart's army entered the town and set up shop at the cross in the Market Place.

Sharing its name with the river in whose valley it lies, Darwen grew rapidly as a result of industrialisation in the early 19th century, and many of the buildings along Market Street were

The Britannia ale house, which stood on the corner of the High Street and North Street, was believed to be one of the earliest houses in the town and had monastic connections.

Once just a hamlet of fishermen's cottages, Budleigh grew as a town and watering place in the first half of the 19th century, when a number of well-heeled society figures took up residence.