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This peaceful and idyllic rural scene, with the horse and cart behind a small girl pushing a pram outside the church of St John the Baptist, belies Crawley's mid 19th-century expansion into a railway town

Said to be the highest town in Surrey, Haslemere is 500ft up in the hills close to the borders of both Sussex and Hampshire.

The town grew up astride what was the most important road in medieval England, that between London and Chester, at that time the principal port for Ireland.

The abbey is much shorter than its Norman predecessor, occupying only the space of its nave; the former choir and transepts were where the railinged green is in this view.

During the revolt of 1294 the Welsh won a victory at Denbigh: it is unclear as to whether this refers to a pitched battle, taking the castle, or the town, or any combination of these three.

The village of Cranley originally took its name from the craneries at Baynards and Vachery to the south, but it was renamed Cranleigh in 1867 at the instigation of the Post Office because of confusion

Looking towards the Town Hall It is a busy summer's day in the 1960s.

This pond with its island is a most attractive feature in the outer part of the town. While it is somewhat municipalised nowadays, it is very ancient.

Between 1633 and 1860 a bell was tolled daily in the town's 15th-century Curfew Tower owing to an unusual bequest.

It is conceivable that, following the Grammar School's hasty exit from the old refectory, it had been patched up and gentrified until, by the 18th century, it had mutated into one of the town's

St Mary's Church is on rising ground west of the town, with Lowndes Park to its north and east and The Bury to its west. The large cruciform church dates back to the 13th and 14th centuries.

Both the Congregational Church and the houses next to it on the left were demolished in the 1970s to make way for the town's Magistrates Court.

A view of part of the town from the old pier, showing to advantage the turrets and crow-stepped gable of the Grand Hotel. In the mud are various beached craft.

The pretty gardens on the 'embankment' surround the town's war memorial, and the bay window on the extreme left of the view is the window of the presbytery of the Catholic church.

This site looks almost deserted, except for a Volkswagen parked by one of the caravans and a few cows grazing in the field behind.

Parkfield House became Middleton`s second Town Hall in 1925.

In 1946 a joint effort by the Town Trust and the J G Graves Charitable Trust secured the grounds for use as a public park.The house itself became a restaurant.

Designed by Cuthbert Brodrick, the architect of the Grand Hotel, Scarborough and the Leeds Town Hall, this splendid structure joined Ben Rhydding Hydro in putting Ilkley firmly on the water cure map.

The first stage of the Otley to Skipton Railway reached Ilkley on 1 August 1865 - the town was decorated with bunting, and merrymaking continued day and night.

The Marquis of Granby was another one of the many pubs and alehouses in the town centre that no longer exist.

As the motor car became the prime mode of transport after the war, every small village and town sought to capitalize on the additional, but highly seasonal, trade it brought.

This ornate green and gold-painted cast iron fountain was presented to the town in May 1900 in honour of Peter Walker, founder of Walker's Brewery.

This view is looking towards the town centre, and the boat ('BN3', a Boston-registered boat) is heading out to the Wash and the North Sea.

The Rose & Crown and the Whitehorse Hotel on the right were among the numerous inns which made this small town one of Hertfordshire's premier coaching centres, thanks to its position on the Great