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This is a comparatively modern scene in the High Street, showing two-way traffic and a variety of cars.

Its spectacular ramparts and ditches enclosed their community. The inner rampart would have had a wooden stockade.

Newton Abbot gained in importance in the 19th century by being a railway town.

Yet it has a long history with a number of attractive 18th- and 19th-century houses tucked away in the lanes of the Old Town.

The railway line to Huncoat and Burnley crosses the road here. There was at one time another line down to Rawtenstall, joining what is now the East Lancashire Preserved Railway.

This hotel was originally known as the Rose and Crown, but changed its name in 1840 after the Dowager Queen Adelaide, widow of William IV, convalesced here while touring in the north of England.

Ramsbottom is a small cotton town on the Irwell less than four miles north of Bury, and just over eleven miles from Manchester.

The town's first inhabitants were men who worked for 11 years in the 18th century constructing the Trent & Mersey Canal's nearby Harecastle tunnel.

This was the terminus of the London, Chatham and Dover Railway and had opened in October 1863. It was closed in 1926, and Ramsgate Station moved to the rear of the town.

There are sailing ships and fishing boats alongside the quays at East Looe, with warehouses and a fish cellar in the foreground.

Since the opening of the railway, Swanage has vastly increased in favour as a watering-place; it is situated in a beautiful bay, and commands a glorious prospect of down and sea and cliff.

The architect of the Town Hall, Cuthbert Brodrick, also left many other Leeds legacies, including the Corn Exchange (1860), the Mechanics' Institute (1860), the Oriental Baths (1866)and shops on Cookridge

In the gardens, and to the left of the statue, stands the obelisk erected to the memory of the town's dialect poets Margaret Lahee, Oliver Ormerod, Edwin Waugh, and John Trafford Clegg.

It was not always quiet on the streets of Penistone; until 1910 cattle and sheep were sold in the streets on Thursdays, and many a deal was struck over a pint or two at the Spread Eagle Hotel.

The town relied on the sea for employment, and it was once an important rival of Holyhead for the Irish ferry.

A picturesque collection of cottages and shops line the spacious main street of this Georgian coaching town, as we look towards the triangular Bowling Green, while the photographer's activities attract

This country town is close to one of the noblest houses in Kent - the Jacobean home of the Sackvilles, Knole. St Nicholas's Church (left) has a 90ft-high tower and turret with a cupola.

At one time, Co-op shops stood in most towns and even some villages, this one belonging to the Society at nearby Carnforth.

The railway line to Huncoat and Burnley crosses the road here.There was at one time another line down to Rawtenstall, joining what is now the East Lancashire Preserved Railway.As well as having three

The Circus, in the town centre, is where five roads meet. It has the usual mixture of banks and public houses on its corners.

The Town Hall was built in 1887 in a style described as 'French Renaissance'. The building was used briefly in the 1980s to house the Halton Chemical Industry Museum.

The school was originally located in premises opposite the parish church, but had moved to its present site to the south of the town by 1750; rebuilding began in 1809.

At the top of Lantern Hill (centre right), 100 feet above sea level, stands the Chapel of St Nicholas, patron saint of sailors, fittingly enough, and also of scholars.

Full of quaint old Georgian houses and historic buildings, Arundel has long been an obvious destination for tourists and visitors.