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This view of market day shows Hawes's main street packed with visitors, farmers and their wives.

Midhurst is a town of contrasts, with an early medieval core around the church, west of the Norman castle earthworks on St Anne's Hill, and the wide North Street, a later medieval planned market place.

East of the High Street and parallel to it, Silver Street leads us out of the market place. On the left next to 'Phipps' is 'The Rising Sun', a Jacobean styled extravaganza of 1892.

Wollaston is a small market town with a charter granted in 1260 and with the remains of a motte and bailey castle.

This is an interesting photograph, for the view has been unashamedly doctored by the Frith company in the past for the Christmas postcard market, to look like a seasonally snowy scene.

The spacious market place is dominated by the venerable flint church of St Mary's with its Norman tower, 14th-century arcades, impressive clerestory, and knapped flint chancel.

Just beyond the Market Hall behind the war memorial is the Town Hall, which dates back to the 14th century.

The name Bootham derives from Buthum,'at the booths'; this probably related to market stalls that were set up nearby.The medieval statues that can just be seen on the top of the bar are in very

This view shows the gatehouse which led from the market place into the abbey precincts, with the church of St Nicholas on the left.

The cross of 1882 was erected on the site of an ancient market cross.

Huge sheep markets were held here, and the farmers and buyers refreshed themselves in the Woolpack, a convenient public house across the road from the castle.

Both of these were established to save the drovers carrying large sums of money with them on their return journeys from the markets in England.

Stockton was granted its market charter by Bishop Bek in 1310, but until the 1840s it consisted of little more than the High Street, a few side streets, and a quayside railhead for Stockton & Darlington

This photograph was taken about half-way along Market Street; it shows many shop premises, most of which have changed hands several times in the intervening years.

This street is so called because the Market Place, Frenchgate and Ryder's Wynd all drained into it.

The tower and spire of the parish church of St Mary and St Cuthbert dominates the skyline in this market day picture.

This photograph is taken further down Market Street.

Behind the cameraman lie the castle remains, outside whose gates the medieval market town was established.

Further west along the A30, Chard is a market town laid out in 1234 by Bishop Jocelyn of Wells.

The markets, which were so important to the town, were held here until they moved to a new site by St Mary`s Church, where there is now a car park.

Chorley gets its name from the smallish but charming River Chor, which runs north of the market town.

Underneath the stained glass windows of the council chamber we can see the arcade of shops leading to the Market Hall, flanked by Marley Modes, a ladies' dress shop, and Bradleys, a gentlemen's outfitters

The Corn Exchange, sitting on Market Hill in the far distance, was opened in 1869 and also served as the Court Leet, public meeting place and concert hall - in addition to its prime function.

The roofs behind, parallel to the High Row of the Market Place, are houses in Waterloo Street, demolished in 1963.