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Boston, Botolph's Town, was laid out along the banks of the River Witham some time around 1100, within the parish of nearby Skirbeck, and rapidly became a great port, although it only received its first

The Trent tends to split into several channels and produce islands on its flood plain as it passes close to the town, having collected the grossly polluted River Tame five miles upstream.

Just near the boating lake is the old bandstand, now with only its base - the upper structure fell into disrepair and was removed.

The Westgate Centre, the Eastgate Shopping Centre, and the high street shops in East Walk, Southernhay, and the Town Square give a comprehensive shopping experience, and of course there is the

Walsden is a former woollen town in the Calder Gap between Yorkshire and Lancashire, just to the south of Todmorden.

Louth was a prosperous, compact market town serving a large area of the central Wolds.

IN HIS 'Round About Wiltshire' (1901), A G Bradley wrote about Warminster: 'its situation is the most striking feature, for that is beautiful, though there is nothing in the aspect of the town unworthy

Until the late 13th century, the town of Chepstow appears to have had no defences on its landward side.

Named for the Queen and photographed in the 60th year of what had become the longest reign on record, Victoria Grove encompassed the social and architectural extremes of the era, ranging from

On the left is the old Town Hall, which was built in 1846; the town fire engine was also kept here.

We start in the Market Place of Grantham, a town of 30,000 whose medieval wealth was based on wool from the sheep grazing the Kesteven fields.

Yet in the last century Basildon has experienced more upheaval and momentous change than most other towns in the land.

The two oldest buildings in Congleton are both inns, the White Lion near the Town Hall and the Lion and Swan shown here. However, Congleton is known as the Bear Town.

Incorporation as a municipal borough - which Tiverton achieved in 1615 - gave the town a measure of self-government, and allowed, amongst other things, 'a town-hall, a mace, fine gowns and other gayeties

This is another town that now serves largely as a dormitory town to both Birmingham and the Black Country, and also to the new town of Telford.

Battle your way across or round the inner relief road that did so much damage to the town's historic fabric and cross the Maud Foster Drain into Willoughby Road, where Boston's celebrated Maud Foster Mill

Battle your way across or round the inner relief road that did so much damage to the town's historic fabric and cross the Maud Foster Drain into Willoughby Road, where Boston's celebrated Maud Foster Mill

The town, granted its charter by Edward I in 1294, still has something of an English air, and much fine architecture. Castle Street is one of the two main streets, the other being Watergate.

This was how the Town Hall in Albert Square looked twelve years after its official opening in 1877.

The town was fortunate to have a number of County Schools. The national school was attended by 200 boys and girls.

The town of Aldershot is largely Victorian; in those early days some of the streets had shops on one side and barracks on the other. The older part of the town lies close to the railway station.

Our brief tour of Minehead starts up in Higher Town, the old town. Here the narrow Church Steps wind from Vicarage Road up steps to the church at the town's summit.

The coming of firstly the Grand Union Canal and then the railways, led to the establishment of modern Linslade at its present location.

The building on the left is the Tudor Town Hall, also known as the Town House or Geld Hall. It was certainly in existence in 1571, and is now occupied by Trembath Welch, the estate agents.