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Ormesby was once an important market town whose inhabitants were privileged to be exempt from county service, and from contributing funds towards the maintenance of the Shire Knights.

This well-maintained timbered market cross was built in 1618. It provides a welcome resting place for shoppers and visitors. The modern shop fronts in the town hide many old medieval houses.

Sleaford has fragments of a castle, built by Alexander, the princely Bishop of Lincoln, in the 1120s, but its function as a market town for north Kesteven is undimmed.

Wheatsheaf Hotel (right) displaced an earlier 17th-century victuallers, and the 19th-century properties on the right replaced the early 16th-century shops that had slowly encroached onto the city's medieval market

At the southern end of Lion Street, near its junction with Market Street, is Rye's large parish church of St Mary the Virgin, much of which is hidden by other buildings.

A weekly animal market used to be held outside.

This section of Bridge Street has changed drastically since this view towards Market Gate was taken.

We might be forgiven for believing that this is a quiet backwater in a developing market town.

The High Street runs along the east side of the market place.

The war memorial (left) forms the centrepiece of Trelawney Square in the centre of this market town.

Here we see the bustling Tuesday market. On the right is the Elizabethan-style Town Hall built in 1832. In the background, smothered with drying washing, are the shambles.

Here we see the bustling Tuesday market. On the right is the Elizabethan-style Town Hall built in 1832. In the background, smothered with drying washing, are the shambles.

Although motor cars have replaced the horses and carts, this 1929 view of the ancient Provision Market is, in essence, little changed from medieval days.

The restored medieval Butter Cross, or High Cross, marks the site of a market. The town crier has long stood on this spot in order to communicate important news to the people of Winchester.

The sloping Market Place leads up to the white-paint- ed clock tower of the town's octagonal Moot Hall, which was built in 1817.

The neat fencing separating the market from Broadway was later removed to facilitate shoppers. Higher up Broadway, on the right, was Catlow's the greengrocer's.

As well as having one of the most important markets in the South Hams, Kingsbridge was also a thriving port.

The old cattle market occupied part of the former bailey of the castle, until 1960 when it moved out to make way for a car park.

The fine timber-framed Market Cross of 1602 replaced the 1549 one, which was destroyed along with more than 100 houses in a disastrous fire in 1600.

A modern mini-market now houses Stokesby Post Office, and the building shown here has become a candle maker's workshop and a tearoom with a charming garden beside the river.

The eastern end of Market Place was opened up in the 1830s as the Dewsbury and Gomersal turnpike road.

Another fine period piece, with onlookers watching the Frith photographer, who has set up his camera where Market Hill turns sharply to descend to Fullbridge Flow Mill and a bridge over the

In this view of the Market Place, the vehicles in the car park are typical of the period, and the van in the centre probably came from nearby RAF Chilmark.

Stane Street enters London at Billingsgate, famous, of course, for its market.