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The shops represented here are a mix of chain multiples (Burtons, Boots, Timpsons shoes, Woolworth's and the Maypole Dairy Co), and local chains, such as Alfred Preedy & Sons (second from right

This was purchased by Francis Hill who built the Burton Hill Mill (Avon Mill), which became a cloth mill producing fine broadcloth.

Fleetwood was founded in 1836 by Sir Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood, and laid out to the designs of Decimus Burton, who designed the North Euston Hotel, Queen's Terrace and both lighthouses.

The village gets its name from a Barton (or Berton), the old word for a rickyard.

We now leave the old tithing of Eastley and come over the London to Southampton railway line into Barton.

Since the 1960s Earls Barton has doubled in size; now the new housing estates in the village attract commuters who travel daily to Northampton, Wellingborough and elsewhere.

Our brief foray into parkland is over and we reach Earls Barton, some six miles east of Northampton.

The novelist Elizabeth Goudge lived with her parents in nearby Barton Lane.

It was built by the Barton family in 1883.

This view shows the Barton Road Swing Bridge over the Manchester Ship Canal.

Immediately east of Wicksteed Park, on the higher ground above the River Ise, Barton Seagrave has a small core of stone-built houses and cottages and a good Norman church around a triangular green.

The pretty little village of Barton Mills, and the Bull Inn.

Barton-upon-Humber was once a rival to the port of Kingston upon Hull on the other side of the river Humber, but it is now a much smaller settlement, and the Market Place confirms that most definitely.

Barton-upon-Humber was once a rival to the port of Kingston upon Hull on the other side of the river Humber, but it is now a much smaller settlement, and the Market Place confirms that most definitely.

Geologically the cliffs at Barton-on-Sea are very colourful, not unlike those across the Solent on the Isle of Wight.

The pretty little village of Barton Mills, and the Bull Inn.

10th-century Anglo-Saxon church tower at Earls Barton.

One impressive feature of the Manchester Ship Canal was the Barton Aqueduct, designed by Edward Leader Williams.

One impressive feature of the Manchester Ship Canal was the Barton Aqueduct, designed by Edward Leader Williams, seen to the right of this photograph.

A charter of incorporation was granted in 1892: the borough was formed out of Barton, Eccles, Winton, and Monton.

Barton's, a 17th-century timber-framed building with a Collyweston stone tile roof, is now L'Incontro restaurant.

On the right is South Parade; the notice above directs us to Sheppards Barton Chapel.

In medieval times this area was known as Barton Cross.

The Raleigh family home, Hayes Barton, can still be seen in all its Elizabethan splendour a mile from the village.