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Port Talbot is an industrial town in the county of Glamorgan.

The impressive edifice of the Queen's Hotel is angled and was originally envisaged to form one section of a 'circus' of buildings, close to the approach road to the town's railway station.

Conwy was already something of a tourist attraction by 1898 with its castle and remnants of the planned medieval town.

The A127 arterial road (in the foreground) was opened in 1925 by Prince Henry, and succeeded Wash Road as the main east-west route through Laindon.

there has been considerable investment in rejuvenating and developing the town, so much so that apparently property prices in and around the town are now rising faster here than in

This view of the church, which was taken away from the town centre, also shows a pretty ironstone thatched house and numerous houses roofed with the local slates.

Wokingham's triangular market place is the town's focal point; it is dominated by its red brick Victorian town hall, which is triangular in shape and replaces a 17th-century timber-framed building.

The A127 arterial road (in the foreground) was opened in 1925 by Prince Henry, and succeeded Wash Road as the main east-west route through Laindon.

In the days when Middlesex encompassed much of what is now Greater London, Brentford remained the important county town, though the title was more or less ceremonial - real administrative

The reverse view from D69020, looking south towards the ancient cross-roads of Watling Street and the Icknield Way.

Macclesfield became a borough in 1220, and by the17th century it was described as 'one of the fairest towns in Cheshire'.

Steyning was a prosperous little town before the Roman Occupation. Legend suggests that St Cuthman helped to establish Steyning in the 8th century.

Port Talbot is an industrial town in the county of Glamorgan.

Stockbridge looks as if it might easily be confused with a town in the 'wild west'. It is really no more than one long main street.

The small town of Battle grew up when the people who built and maintained the abbey and its buildings settled there. The High Street is part of the main road, which passes through the town.

Sherborne is in some people's estimation the most attractive of the Dorset towns.

In the second half of the 19th century, Darlington was growing fast, attracting industry and business.

AT LAST he [Troy] reached the summit, and a wide and novel prospect burst upon him with an effect almost like that of the Paci?c on Balboa's gaze.

During the First World War, two enormous army camps were situated within two miles of the town, and in 1915 the Machine Gun Corps was founded in Harrowby Camp.

The market town of Stourport lies in the borough of Bewdley at the junction of the Staffordshire and Worcester Canal, the River Stour and the River Severn, which led to flourishing trade with other parts

Horncastle is one of the county's most ancient towns.

By the 1950s, Bournemouth was at the height of its popularity and one of the most prosperous towns in England, as this view of the town centre shows.

Crawley's expansion as a planned New Town after 1947 took in hamlets right up to Ifield.

Nether Edge was one of the residential areas of Sheffield developed during the latter part of the Victorian era and offered a superior standard of housing to that nearer the town centre.