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The central lamp standard dates from 1873: the globe is supported by fishes and surmounted with the crown and arrows of St Edmund, to whom the church is dedicated.

The town was changing, and the old order was changing with it. 45 new residential roads were added to the street map in the 1920s.

Marlow, and Henley further up river, were important inland ports handling mainly the corn, malt and timber of the Chiltern Hills behind them.

The tram and tramlines are gone now, but the buildings and the main hotels still exist.

n Victorian times Dorking was still a very rural town with a wide market place in the centre.

n Victorian times Dorking was still a very rural town with a wide market place in the centre.

The town is almost completely surrounded by the River Severn, so that most visitors to Shrewsbury enter it over one of its bridges.

This view captures well the qualities of old East Bourn, now called the Old Town.

It picturesquely linked the old town with Meads, and was a popular stroll for visitors.

Beyond is the Central Bandstand, and rising in the distance is the landmark purpose-built clock tower donated to the town in 1837 by a wealthy widow.

Frampton, literally Frome Town, is beautifully situated by the River Frome.

Behind on the left is a house called Belle Vue, later Whitcliffe Grange, now demolished and replaced by council houses.

Blenheim Palace and Blenheim Park attract a large number of tourists to the town.

Reputedly England's most haunted village, and a market town in the time of Henry III, Prestbury is now a residential suburb of Cheltenham.

The unique, richly-carved granite exterior of St Mary's is one of the glories of the town.

Since the 13th century there has been a market here, and the buildings in the town centre reflect a gentle change rather than a dramatic fluctuation of fortune at any one time.

The ornately designed building is a vivid reminder of the days, long before the television and video age, when every town in the country had a picture house, or 'flea pit' as they were sometimes known

Seaton is a mostly Victorian town hard by the mouth of the River Axe.

Opposite, the Victorian buildings contain Kendall's, the Co-op Insurance and, with the clock, Croyden's the jeweller's.

Certainly the ladies prefer this side, which has easy access to the beach from the smart part of town. A

Gone are the market stalls and booths of an earlier era.

The Dawlish Water and its high tributary the Smallacombe Brook rise on the wooded heathland of Little Haldon Hill, which rises eight hundred feet at the back of the town.

After the 1850s the new railway from Churston meant that Brixham fish could be sent swiftly to towns and cities throughout Britain.

The large, gracious, Victorian terraces serving as guesthouses and hotels dominate the skyline along the sea front.