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Booming expansion led the Duke of Devonshire and the townspeople to lobby for borough status, finally granted by royal charter in June 1883.

Two of the girls have come down from the bridge and are inspecting the ruined south-west towers.

Middleham is famous for its racehorses, and this photograph of the Low Moor shows a string of horses ridden by flat-capped jockeys walking in a wide circle with the trainer supervising in the middle.

The Market House was built of granite in 1839-40 for the sale of meat, poultry and butter, and the four carved ox heads above the pillars (left) are a notable feature of the street frontage.

A well-laden coach and four arrive in the town, making its way towards the seafront and main hotels.

Southgate is the only surviving gate of the three that used to give access to the old walled town.

Southgate is the only surviving gate of the three that used to give access to the old walled town.

The bridge joining Wroxham to the west and Hoveton to the east was declared unsafe in the 1960s.

The Market Square is at the busy cross-roads in the centre of this delightful small town.

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.

Newark owes much of its development to the fact that Henry I gave Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln, permission to divert the route of the Fosse Way through the town.

John Ruskin praised this old market town fulsomely, saying it had moorland, sweet river, and English forest at their best. Markets have been held here since medieval times.

We are looking north along the A5, with the Town Hall tower on the grey horizon.

Over to the right is Seaton's Temperance Hotel, one of several in the town.

St Mary's, the parish church of Higher Brixham, was the town's original place of worship, dating back to the 15th century. There are some impressive altar tombs and a font dating back to the 1300s.

St Mary's, the parish church of Higher Brixham, was the town's original place of worship, dating back to the 15th century. There are some impressive altar tombs and a font dating back to the 1300s.

Over to the right is Seaton's temperance hotel, one of several in the town.

Built during the reign of Henry VIII, this tiny town hall is now a listed building. It was also a courtroom and prison.

South of Boroughbridge is the old Roman town of Aldborough - Isurium Brigantum.

The Town Hall opened in 1876, replacing an earlier building that had been destroyed by fire in 1871.

The old Town Hall is a dignified building of mellow brick with a clock beneath an elegant cupola.The building looks just the same now as it did in about 1960; nowadays, part of it is a dance and

The stall holders and the ice cream man must be wondering where the customers are.They must either all be at work, or down at Rudyard Lake for the day.

Opened in 1860 on what was then the edge of the town, Runcorn's cemetery was to replace the graveyard around All Saints' Church. It covers an area of 13 acres.

Just out of view to the right is Castle Street, Farnham's best street architecturally, with the Town Hall, a 1930s neo-Georgian building, on the Castle Street corner opposite the Queen's