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The Market Square is still the commercial centre of the town. There are several banks, and the market is held here on Tuesdays and Saturdays.

Some of the buildings on the left were replaced by the ten-storey office block Market Square House of 1967, whose bland glazed facades dominate the left side of the market place.

The Market House is one of the finest in Gloucestershire, and dates from 1655.

Cartmel has been described as a cathedral city in miniature, and this corner of the cobbled Market Place has not changed much since this photograph was taken.

In the background the Corn Exchange tower presides over the market place, where a market is still held on Wednesdays.

We enter St Neots over the bridge straight into the market place.

Leyburn developed into a market town thanks to a charter granted by Charles I, but unlike Hawes and Askrigg, it never became industrialised.

The large signboard leaves no doubt about the Queen's Hotel, dominant in the Market Square (centre), whilst Hird and Sons, jewellers, occupy part of the ground floor of the same building.

Market Street leads from Old Market Place behind the photographer to Upper Parliament Street, and is terminated by the Theatre Royal's 1865 stuccoed front with its six-columned portico.

King Henry III granted Ringwood a market charter in 1226, which was confirmed by Edward VI in 1553.

Three-storied 18th-century town houses, including the bow-windowed front of the Sykes Temperance Hotel, line the Market Place of Askrigg, a pleasant village in Upper Wensleydale.

Showing one of its clock faces, Wellington's Market and Town Hall was built in 1831 on property belonging to the Duke of Wellington.

The spectacular Market Cross was built in about 1600, replacing one burnt down in the major town fire of that year.

For many years Warminster had one of the largest corn markets in the west of England, and its prosperity is reflected in the many fine Georgian buildings in the Market Place.

Another view of the Market Place, but this time from the opposite direction to photograph No 31073. The first grant for a weekly market was given by King John in 1196.

One of the highest towns in Oxfordshire, Chipping Norton gets the 'Chipping' in its name from the Saxon word for market.

Villagers call it the Square but to historians this is the Market Place. King John gave it a weekly Saturday market in 1215 with Thursdays being added by Henry III in 1248.

The eastern end of Bell Street is crossed by Knight Street, a wide road leading from Station Road to Fair Green where a market and fair have been held since the charter was granted in 1306.

A tragedy for Chesham was the demolition in 1965 of the Market House or Town Hall in the alleged interests of those great behemoths, the motor car and lorry.

This now lost view looks from Market Street towards Silver Street: the timber-framed building on the left has been replaced by a 1970s building.

A surprisingly tranquil view of the cobbled Market Place on a sunny day in 1893, looking north past the Musgrave Monument into Devonshire Street.

The fountain in the centre of Wigton's Square or Market Place has a pyramidal cross-topped spire, and depicted on its four sides are the four Acts of Mercy.

The two sections of road here each (technically at least) have different street names: Swine Market is on the left and Oat Market on the right, reminding us of what used to be traded here in times past

The Central Market (centre left) opened in 1901, but was replaced recently by a more modern facility opposite.