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The Town Hall and the Market Hall are on the right. Known as Over Darwen, this was a quarrying and agricultural area before turning to calico printing, weaving and paper making.

The new A1 bisected the town of Ferrybridge after 1967.

The trees of this green island were planted in the late 18th century, and most are still here. This is now a one-way road system, and the van is going the wrong way!

This Saxon church had been concealed by sheds and buildings for many centuries. It was re-discovered by Canon W H R Jones, the vicar of Holy Trinity and a keen antiquarian.

The trees of this green island were planted in the late 18th century, and most are still here. This is now a one-way road system, and the van is going the wrong way!

The discovery of spa water in 1571 led to a remarkable period in the town's history. Here in Low Harrogate hotels and stylish crescents were built, attracting a very good class of visitor.

Not far away from the Bull Ring are displayed the town stocks and whipping post.

South-west of the town centre, along the Ampthill Road, on a large site between it and the railway line, the County Schools were built in the 1880s on a grand plan with a massive tower and,

West of Long Sutton and east of Spalding, Holbeach is another of Lincolnshire's numerous small market towns. It received its first market charter in 1252.

It was the coming of the railway that made Fleet a sought-after address, and it has remained a popular country town ever since.

The large weather-boarded buildings on the left are the silk mills of Warner & Sons, who had taken over the business of Walters & Co in 1894.

This view reveals Boston's elegant and urbane character.

The large weather-boarded buildings on the left are the silk mills of Warner & Sons, who had taken over the business of Walters & Co in 1894.

Built in the late 14th century for the Carthusian monks of Hinton Priory, the George Inn catered for the wool merchants who came to the town's two annual fairs: it performed a useful service and was

Although an old market town, Lisburn is at the heart of the Irish linen industry. Behind the market square can be seen the Protestant cathedral, built in 1623 and elevated to cathedral status in 1662.

Before assuming the role of the first military town in Britain, Aldershot was no more than a pretty village comprising a church, a manor house and several farms, close to an area of open heathland.

Beyond the route suggested in this chapter, which finishes at Bedford Park, the 1950s and 1960s expansion of Bedford to the east was well planned with parks, shopping parades and schools - many of the

This chapter finishes with a flourish in Glastonbury, one of England's most historic smaller towns, a major centre of pilgrimage in the middle ages and still regarded by many as of mythic importance.

When the town was first laid out it was to be an exclusive place, but within a few years, cheap, terraced houses had been built and Atherton's vision was in tatters.

Gravesend has two Victorian piers: the Royal Terrace Pier of 1843 lies to the east of the slightly earlier Town Pier we see in this view.

This perfect little town, the capital of the Kentish Weald, was formerly a centre of cloth weaving.

A year later many residents would be discussing the horrors of a whirlwind, which ripped through the town wrecking roofs and farms.

The Square is dominated by Crewe's war memorial, which is a very grand affair; so it should be – it commemorates so many people from the town.

The Lamb Hotel, in the centre of the picture, was built in 1861, and is currently being converted into flats.