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Wrexham stands on the tributary of the River Dee. It is a town full of history - the founder of Yale University in the US (Elihu Yale), came from the Wrexham area, and is buried at St Giles's church.

Wrexham stands on a tributary of the river Dee. It has a long history - it was known to the Saxons as Wrightesham or Wrightelesham.

Wrexham 'comprises several spacious, well-paved streets', says a contemporary gazetteer, 'and has undergone great improvement by reconstruction of buildings and the construction of new streets'.

It provided a crossing of the Dee from the Watergate to nearby Curzon Park, as well as for traffic heading to and from the direction of Wrexham.

Wrexham stands on a tributary of the River Dee. It has a long history - it was known to the Saxons as Wrightesham or Wrightelesham.

The village has recently grown enormously following the building of a dual carriageway linking the area with Wrexham and Chester, and many people from here now commute to those towns.

Marks & Spencer's (left) has been a constant presence in Wrexham at a time when town centres generally have been under perpetual threat of change.

Mr Holt the landlord offers his customers locally-brewed Wrexham Ales. The town was a centre for brewing, malting, tanning and mining as well as staging Monday, Thursday and Saturday markets.

This marvellous scene shows a Wrexham that has since lost some of its unified Victorian and Edwardian streetscapes with its banks and traditional shop fronts.

This small town, now part of Wrexham, was a mainly working-class community supplying workers for the various industries and mines in the area.

The Wrexham Lager advertised on the right was the first to be brewed in Britain.

Below Wroxham, the River Bure flows between several broads that form wonderful boating lakes.

Below Wroxham, the River Bure flows between several broads that form wonderful boating lakes.

Wroxham is at the western gateway to the Broads, and profited greatly from the late 19th-century boom in 'messing about in boats'.

Wroxham Broad winds through solitary, yet fertile countryside. It is almost impossible to believe that this huge stretch of placid water was hacked out by men seeking fuel for their hearths.

At Wroxham, the capital of the Broads, there is a full mile of shimmering open water, which is thronged with pleasure craft in the summer months.

We are looking towards Roys of Wroxham (on the Hoveton side of the bridge). The wooden building on the right has been demolished, but others remain.

In the churchyard is the 1820s Mausoleum of the Traffords, the family of the long-demolished Wroxham Hall, whose gate lodge survives by the church.

The bridge joining Wroxham to the west and Hoveton to the east was declared unsafe in the 1960s.

The Horning branch of Roy's of Wroxham proclaims itself 'the biggest village store in the world'.

Visitors are encouraged to buy Wroxham rock and are invited to 'walk through this store without being pressed to buy'.

A loop from the Coltishall to Wroxham road can take you down to the delightful small village of Belaugh.

The water is as smooth as glass, and the varied trees, the aquatic plants at the water's edge, and the reeds in the distance are a complete contrast to what goes on further down the broad at Wroxham bridge

The capital of the Broads is Wroxham which is just across the bridge. It is a popular starting point for boating holidays which grew rapidly in the early years of this century.