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It curves uphill from the west end of Market Place south towards the parish church with Georgian facades stepping up the gradient, some on the right linked by ramped cornices.

As a break from a succession of market towns, the route heads north-west to Buckland St Mary, situated just north of the A303 and at the east end of the well-wooded Blackdown Hills.

A weekly animal market used to be held outside.

Ten years later, and the narrow boats are refitted for the holiday market and modified so as to be much easier to handle.

They never got further west than Chesterfield where they had a station at West Bars near the Market Place, and extensive goods facilities.

The Buck Hotel, seen in the centre of the picture, is still a popular hostelry, while the Airedale Hotel on the left provided lunches and teas for the fast-expanding tourist market, in addition to accommodation

The weathered steps of the ancient Market Cross at Middleham show the antiquity of this medieval township at the mouth of Wensleydale.

This view captures some of the domestic feel of the lower High Street beyond the shops nearer Market Square.

Every evening at 9pm, four blasts are sounded on a horn at the market cross.

It is towards the end of market day, an event which was revived in 1920. Pens for cattle and sheep can be glimpsed under the trees, and a large lorry waits to carry its four-footed cargo away.

In 1586 Camden said that Weobley had 'more fair cellars than most market towns of its bigness in England'.

Most churches in Britain were supplied by Whitney's in the early 20th century, and there was also a sizeable export market.

One of Masham's distinctive features is its large market place, where fairs would see as many as 70,000 to 80,000 sheep and lambs up for sale.

This quiet, shaded street offered a little respite from the bustle of the market centre. The jumble of roof lines reveals how city streets often developed piecemeal.

The broad High Street is part of the Fosse Way, and is dominated by the Redesdale Market Hall, a fine Victorian Tudor building designed by Sir Ernest George in 1887.

The site of the former shambles, or meat market, is visible between the buildings. Also visible is the gateway to the prison, which features in Thomas Hardy's 'Far from the Madding Crowd'.

Criccieth was once a modest market town, but it grew into a select watering-place when the Cambrian railway reached it.

The town's original charter allowed for a weekly market to be held every Tuesday, but for some reason it was allowed to lapse.

This view looks along Stert Street towards the tower of St Nicholas Church which faces the Market Place; the street still retains much of its character, apart from the traffic.

They are usually characterised by their width: large herds of cattle, sometimes from as far away as Scotland, were driven down them by generations of drovers to markets in the lowlands.

This was the original site of the huge cattle market.

On the extreme right of the picture is the war memorial, recalling the men of Higham Ferrers who died in both World Wars, and to the left of it, partly screened by trees, is the 13th-century Market Cross

This view looks south along Market Street past the Midland Road junction towards Sheep Street.

We can see old shops in the photograph— S Selvey, the grocer, and Wood, the butcher.The ancient market cross has been knocked down by vehicles and restored several times.The scene is similar today