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Smiddy Hill in Pickering, a bustling little market town west of Scarborough on the edge of the moors, probably takes its name from the site of a former blacksmith's shop in the area.

The Dog & Partridge sign stands in the middle of the green; the pub is still trading, and it is the Official Monster Raving Loony Party's headquarters. Yateley is near the Berkshire border.

By the beginning of the 11th century the parish was doing well enough to support five churches and two chapels. Then disaster struck. In 1010 Danish raiders attacked and all but destroyed the place.

Long the centre of the town's social and political life, the Market Square contained many inns, including the George and Dragon, the Woodman, the Red Lion (on the right), and the Brown Cow.

The focus of the town is the triangular medieval market place, with the best buildings on its south side: the Old Vicarage of 1805 with its Venetian ground floor windows, mansard roof and battlemented

Market Street c1955 Originally a village, Eastleigh expanded rapidly around Bishopstoke Junction after the London and South Western Railway Company's carriage works moved here in 1889-90, followed

The two impressive buildings to the right now house the Natwest Bank, previously the National Provincial and originally the Northamptonshire Union Bank.

Trams are no longer crossing the bridge at the time of this photograph, but cyclists and pedestrians are well in evidence, and cars have now started to appear.

Our tour of Reading town centre starts at the railway sta- tion, built in 1840 and remodelled in the 1860s.

Controlled growth has kept this, the largest town in England's smallest county, a pleasant and compact community.

The pier was 18th-century, and the Rhenish tower added early in the 1800s by a General Rawdon.

In the 18th century, the almost picturesque group of church and school was completed by the addition of the town stocks and whipping post.

The 'Mother and Child' sculpture, behind the children, now forms part of Basildon's logo, such has been the extent to which people associate it with the town.

Southampton Airport lies to the south of Eastleigh town centre and it was from here that the first Spitfire began her maiden flight in 1936.

The village takes its name from a corruption of the words 'Frome Town'. This graceful arched bridge over the River Frome has wooden rails, which still guard the road.

The Roundabout c1960 This is part of modern Cheshunt, with its brash new shopping parade and roundabout with its ornamental fountain, which would not be out of place in one of Hertfordshire's

Having survived the great fire of 1583, St Mary's Church is the oldest building in the town.

This view captures the essence of the town.

The hill-top town of Shaftesbury, or Shaston as it is sometimes known, owes its foundation to Alfred the Great, showing much evidence of its Saxon origins.

Ified was once a typical rural settlement surrounded by open countryside, but these days it is part of Crawley New Town.

Near the quays is the 18th-century harbour office, once the Old Town House, a club for the sailing ships which docked nearby.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Kenilworth was a small town with about 4,500 inhabitants.

Weymouth owes its origins as a favourite resort to the patronage of George III and of the rest of fashionable Georgian society, who travelled to the town to take up the new 'cure' of sea bathing.

The town was one of many that became popular during the Napoleonic wars when the rich could not travel to Europe. They found Sidmouth before Torquay and it developed accordingly.