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It is an ancient town with a medieval layout and a wide gently curving High Street, now mainly pedestrianised.

The willows have gone or been replaced, and there is more building in the plots behind the High Street on the left, but the scene is still just as tranquil.

This inn stands in the centre of the village by the side of the main London to Worthing main road on the route of Stane Street.

Subsequently, a road was built linking The Strand with the end of High Street. The raised bank followed the Taw from Castle Quay and turned right to follow the Yeo to Braunton Bridge.

It tapped the water from the Burgess Well (now under Fairfield Road car park) and released it in an open channel down the High Street.

This photograph was probably taken from a window in one of the shops on St James' Street. In the foreground is the Old Red Lion.

Silver Street, between it and the Bedford Palace, is now a pedestrianised shopping precinct.

The High Street is a long one on the main Aylesbury to Buckingham road.

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 view looks south towards London, along the narrow stretch of Ermine Street or the Old North Road, with its overhanging 17th-century houses and gables.

Buchanan Street was a great place to eat out, with several top restaurants including Queen's at number 70 and Ferguson & Forrester at number 36.

The town, now mercifully by-passed, has a remarkably complete High Street, considering the volume of traffic that used to choke it en route to the coast.

In Belvoir Street in 1949, Cowlings Record Shop was much frequented by Leicester's youth, who could sit in booths and hear the records before deciding whether or not to buy.

The broad High Street is part of the Fosse Way, and is dominated by the Redesdale Market Hall, a fine Victorian Tudor building designed by Sir Ernest George in 1887.

This view of Ombersley's main street gives an idea of the range of facilities in the village.

It was situated where College Street joins Goodramgate on the eastern side.

Amongst many other attractions, the museum has a reconstruction of a Victorian shopping street. Thousands of people flock here annually to this, one of the best-known museums in Britain.

At the turn of the 20th century Princes Street boasted a number of hotels. The most expensive to stay at was the North British at Waverley Station.

The gardens, the railway line and Princes Street occupy the area once covered by the waters of Nor' Loch.

Characterised by pointed arches and fine stonework, the old gate is also renowned for its statue of George III gazing down the High Street, dressed as a Roman and wearing a toga.

The tower, which signifies the eastern entrance to the High Street, was begun in 1492 and took seventeen years to complete, almost certainly because of ongoing financial difficulties.

To the west the Melton Mowbray road reaches the town centre via Westgate, a wide street seen here looking north-east towards Market Place.

Apart from the remains of the keep shown here, an arch from the outer gateway still stands in Quarry Street.

Horsham was known as the market place, but by the later 19th century the northern part was called the Carfax, a name possibly derived from 'Skarfolkes', used in 1524 for taxation purposes, or from the street