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Many ancient towns grew up with market places by the abbey gates, including Ely, Peterborough, St Albans and Glastonbury.

Situated just beyond Queen's Park, Wistaston is now a suburb of the town of Crewe.

It looks quiet here now, but once the market at Leominster was so successful that the cities of Hereford and Worcester were jealous of its success.

Originally one of the largest country houses in the town of Cheshunt, Grundy Park is now home to one of the Borough of Broxbourne's leisure centres.

Sutton has one great asset which makes it a cut above other Birmingham suburbs - Sutton Park, which was given to the town by Henry VIII at the behest of local benefactor Bishop John Vesey.

One of Willenhall's more eccentric buildings, this mock-Tudor, mock-Gothic, former toll house became a restaurant in 1929 and has also been known as the Round House, though it is not really round.

The Square in Wickham opens at right angles to an east-west route; it might have been intentionally planned in that way when a market and fair were granted to the town during the second half of the 13th

The town still retains a large number of half-timbered buildings, including several inns, such as the Bell, the Wheatsheaf, Ye Olde Berkeley Arms and the Black Bear.

The old Town Hall is a dignified building of mellow brick with a clock beneath an elegant cupola.

To the west the Melton Mowbray road reaches the town centre via Westgate, a wide street seen here looking north-east towards Market Place.

Astride the A2, the old market town of Sittingbourne was an important staging point on the medieval pilgrims' route to Canterbury and, later on, in the coaching era.

Two identical versions of the fountain still survive in a Glasgow park and Pretoria city zoo in South Africa!

Dalgleish Way is part of the later 1950s and early 1960s village expansion.

The town comprises two villages, Upper and Lower Sheringham, the former more peaceful and retaining its fishing and farming traditions.

Wars with France between 1793 and 1815 prevented the wealthy doing the 'Grand Tour', and so they came to Exmouth instead.

By the 1860s Bollington was thriving, but during the American Civil War the cotton towns of Lancashire, east Cheshire and north Derbyshire felt the effects of the Federal blockade of Confederate ports.

If there is any breeze blowing, it will blow onto Clee Hill, and consequently the village can sometimes be very bleak.

In 1788, however, it and its near neighbour Marple were transformed into centres of industry when Samuel Oldknow built a mill here employing 400 people.

In 1788, however, it and its near neighbour Marple were transformed into centres of industry when Samuel Oldknow built a mill here employing 400 people.

The terraced houses and cobbled street of Long Row at Belper is one of the many legacies left by Jedediah Strutt who, with Richard Arkwright, brought industry to the town in the late 18th century.

Just this side of it can be seen the premises of Botley Garages, now a sports shop and a hairdresser's.

In the background a trolleybus is about to pass a tram as it heads towards the Town Hall.

No motorised traffic and a few bicycles denote a leisurely age.

The square is named after Henry Sudell, one of the town's leading 18th-century citizens.