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Seaton is a mostly Victorian town hard by the mouth of the River Axe. Though never one of Devon's more fashionable resorts, it has a charm of its own and an attractive setting.

The Strangeway Estate had been bought around 1859 for the purpose of building a gaol and these courts.

Incredibly, the Guildhall only narrowly escaped demolition in the 1870s, when Alfred Waterhouse (architect of Manchester Town Hall) presented a plan for its replacement.

Situated in Rockingham Road, this grand building soon became a major landmark of the nascent industrial town when it appeared on the scene in 1936.

Then, just as it is today, this area of the town was an exclusive parade of expensive little shops, smart tea shops and expensive restaurants.

The Welshpool and Llanfair Railway still chuffs its way along the eight-mile narrow gauge line between the two towns.

The large building, centre left, is the old Town Hall, with the Library and Mechanics' Institute to its left (now Council offices).

In 1866 the Corporation decided that the design for the Town Hall should be by open competition, a normal 19th-century practice for civic buildings.

Manor Road would not win any architectural awards; in fact, the picture could have been taken in any one of a hundred or so towns where similar houses were built.

The Georgian Town Hall of 1810 regularly holds antiques auctions and the town is well-known as an antiques centre with plenty of shops in which to browse.

Looking towards the town centre from Manchester Road. The magnificent Town Hall comes into view beyond Broadfield Park slopes, created from 1870 onwards.

Council, the Commission for New Towns, the Civic Trust and the High Street Association promoted a street improvement scheme, and over the years the High Street has been cleaned and restored

Deep shadows engulf the Greyhound Hotel (left), with the Town Hall behind, in this lunchtime view westwards to Colmer`s Hill (centre).

Then, in 1879, William Rock, a local man who went to London and made a fortune, returned home to improve Barnstaple.

In 1639, about thirty years after the Border raiders and reivers had been ruthlessly suppressed by James II, Belford was still described as 'the most miserable, beggarly town, or town of sods, that ever

Back in Surrey, the route reaches Haslemere; we look south-west along the High Street into the market place of this small town, with the 1814 Town Hall closing the vista.

This dates from around 1130, and was built for Abbot Vincent around a courtyard. Since 1938 the west side buildings hav gone, demolished for road widening.

By 1849 the railway was running a service from east to west, and Dorking Town station was the first to be built at the edge of the town. The line was principally built for freight traffic.

IN SPITE of the depression, the town's population grew to 36,404 in 1901, and the town grew richer.

Further south, Watling Street widens to form a market place complete with town hall and a corn exchange.

A prominent Norman castle mound, the remains of the town walls, including Prince Rupert's Gateway, the castle hall and St Mary de Castro church form the finest historic enclave in the city.

Poor old Maidenhead: a rather good Georgian coaching town on the old London to Bath road, it was overlaid by Victorian development after the railway arrived in 1841, and has really suffered from ring road

On the far side of the street are the almshouses bequeathed to the town by the former Sheriff of London Hugh Perry, who held the office in 1632.

Here we approach East Ham's town centre along the busy North Circular Road, which seems in places merely a casual linkage of suburban roads.