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A thousand years ago the monks at Holyrood told the early citizens of Falkirk what to do, and took their surplus food off to Edinburgh.

The remains became the small town's parish church. On the right is the way into the car park of Ye Olde Abbey Hostel (that is the name over the entrance), but the official sign has gone.

The significance of Town Bridge is that of an enduring physical presence.

The Norman plan for settlements made Boroughbridge the 44th of the 400 new towns. The Romans had been here from AD 72, when they settled nearby at Aldborough about a mile away.

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

The town's original swimming pool was built in Mereway in 1896, and used for many years before closing due to pollution of the water.

The largest town in south-west Northamptonshire, Brackley had a market charter since before 1217, its wealth having come from wool.

Winchelsea is an 'ancient' town, like Rye, equal in status to the Cinque Ports and having to provide a quota of ships for the English fleet.

Allegedly built around the start of the 15th century, this was the headquarters of the Cutlers` Guild, and later the meeting-place of the town`s burgesses.

The mock-Tudor building seen here gives little indication of the real timber-framed buildings that remain in the town, although most would have been destroyed when Owain Glyndwr proclaimed himself Prince

At the cross-roads is the entrance to the town.

Geoff Cox said: 'I think the negative image goes back to Lorraine Chase and the Luton Airport advertisement (for Campari); it led to the naff town idea.

St David's, Prendergast, occupies a commanding position, over­looking the Cleddau River and the town of Haverfordwest.

This town on the old Great North Road was specifically created to trade on its location by the local landowner Idonea de Viponts as early as the 12th century, when the existing Roman road was diverted

Coal mining had been a major industry regionally since the 16th century; the coal had traditionally been transported by packhorse into neighbouring Cheshire and to Liverpool.

On the south side are the handsome stone piers, and a deep harbour cutting off most of the town from the cliffs of Douglas Head.

This excellent view captures the eastward expansion of the town in the late 19th century very well.

Frith's Victorian photographer was in the lane leading to the abbey gateway, and looking across the Market Place to what is now undoubtedly the finest building in Abingdon: the Town Hall.

The distinctive town hall of Loftus was built by Lord Zetland in 1879 and described as 'Free-Neo-Tudor' with a polygon angled tower.

Originally called Cambridge Town, in honour of the Duke of Cambridge who founded the Army Staff College here, its name had to be changed to avoid confusion within the postal service with its university

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

In Norman times, Bramber was an important port town.

This is the most central town in Norfolk. This view shows the varied façades of the buildings fronting the market place. The building next to the King's Arms Hotel on the right is a good example.

Beyond Victoria Square the town expanded along Gateford Road and Carlton Road towards the railway station, which opened in 1850; it is stone-built in a Jacobean style.