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They founded their town of Corinium by the River Churn, in an area occupied by a native tribe called Dobunni.

The photographer was positioned on Moor Street looking down towards the Town Gate.

Standing at the cross-roads in the centre of the town is the clock tower, which was erected by public subscription in 1876.

Like many of the town's churches, it is built from salvage from the Roman town: bricks for arches, quoins and bands, and rubble and septaria (inferior stone nodules) for the rest.

This Cotswold town has much in common with other old wool towns to the north and south of it, such as Chipping Campden and Cirencester.

This view shows a virtually-deserted High Street in the undistinguished former colliery town of Normanton, three miles north of Wakefield in South Yorkshire.

The coming of the railway made Horsham a natural target for expansion, helping to boost the town's economy.

The town of Little Walsingham grew up to serve the many thousands of pilgrims that came to the priory; it has more early 17th-century houses than any other town in Norfolk.

These civic gardens are in the Trenance Valley and fringe the River Gannel as it twists away from the eastern edge of the town.

This street of small distinctive shops and fine 18th-century terraced buildings is the commercial hub of the town.

Described as a new lung for the town, these recreation grounds and ornamental gardens were constructed from derelict land next to the railway embankment.

Standing in the centre of the town at the junction of roads to Yorkshire and the north is the extravagantly ornate Union Bank Building, occupied by Barclays in the 1950s and now by the

The second largest town in Oxfordshire, Banbury has long been famous as the main meeting point of routes from the Midlands to London and Oxford.

The many prams and push-chairs were a typical sight in Harlow, leading to its nickname 'Pram Town'.

Thrapston is a small medieval market town engulfed in 19th- and 20th-century housing and factories.

Designed by Thomas Robinson and completed in 1887, the red-brick town hall deserves a more spacious and prominent setting than Market Street.

The old tracks from the neighbouring village of Uplyme are the original routes into the town before the construction of the present road along the coast.

The Hazelgrove Glen was given to Saltburn by the Marquis of Zetland in 1899; it became the town's first free park in 1904, after some initial reluctance by the Town Council to adopt and develop it.

Many of Slough's town centre buildings are relatively new, dating from the post- and pre-war periods.

Basingstoke's role as an important market centre dates back to medieval times; it was established as a borough in 1622 when James I granted the town a charter giving it a weekly market and a twice-yearly

Basingstoke's role as an important market centre dates back to medieval times; it was established as a borough in 1622 when James I granted the town a charter giving it a weekly market and a twice-yearly

The clock tower dates from 1875, by which time Newnham had long ceased to be the most important Gloucestershire town on the west bank of the river.

Chipping Norton's imposing Town Hall can be seen in this 1950s photograph.

Warehouses can be seen centre and on the right.