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The international aspect of the town's trade can be seen by the sign outside Joseph Hird's grocery in the centre of the picture. It advertises him as a 'French and Italian Warehouseman'.

Ringwood's market brought country folk from far and wide to the town with their goods; it also became famous for the sale of New Forest ponies.

Here we see the narrow main street of this north Norfolk market town. The road sign on the left depicts a torch, and warns of a school just around the corner.

As a market town, Fakenham serves the needs of a wide area of villages and farms - as is suggested by the presence of the main national banks.

Hingham was an important market town in the Middle Ages.

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

The Anglo-Saxons almost certainly fortified Wallingford, and there was once an important castle here, though little of it survives today.

This was the main road into St Austell from Truro and the west before the building of the ring road.

Victoria Park lies to the east of Newbury town centre and covers an area of seventeen acres.

Some of these were enlarged and used as dwellings until quite recent times. They are now the haunt of visitors, strolling out from the nearby towns.

The castle and the south-eastern approaches to the town present an illusion of island tranquillity, stretching from the wide waters of the Usk through the cattle-filled Castle Meadows to the wooded slopes

The lane to Cock Hall is in the foreground and Whitworth High School playing fields now occupy the large field, with the school having been built to the right.

In the days when trading wherries plied their way up and down the rivers, transporting goods from the sea ports, or from one town to another, Beccles was a thriving port.

The market place was once a good deal bigger than this, but fire swept through the town in 1679, and subsequent rebuilding encroached on the site.

The small rural hamlet of Corey's Mill, now completely absorbed into the New Town of Stevenage, was once dominated by its windmill, which burnt down in 1878.

From the height of Castle Hill, close to the old railway line on the east side of the valley, Bakewell looks exactly what it is: a pretty and compact market town.

Newton Abbot market has changed a great deal in both character and appearance since this photograph was taken in the 1920s.

This could be any town, anywhere, the epitome of the Borough Architects' brave new world of the early 1960s.

In the mid 18th century, improvements in navigation on the River Blyth led to a big improvement in trade for the area's maltsters and brewers. The Thoroughfare is Halesworth's main shopping street.

From there, the Kennet & Avon Canal plunges down 29 locks to the valley below. This one is on the edge of town, close to the old prison.

The lawns around the town are areas originally cleared of woodland, both to provide timber and to allow deer to graze.

Elements of this small historic coaching town still remain, including the well-restored George Hotel and its inn sign on gallows spanning the now mainly pedestrianised road.

Reading is one of those towns that can only be appreciated on foot.

St Blazey is a modest town that sits inland from the port of Par in St Austell Bay.