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Close to the Wiltshire border, this little market and wool town has retained many of its 17th- and 18th- century buildings, such as the Eight Bells Inn, seen here on the right.

This small market town was named after a Danish leader called Herolveston. Harleston has retained its character, and has a good number of varied old buildings.

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 Town Hall was modelled on that at Bolton, and was completed in 1883, though it was damaged by fire in 1901.

On the downs above Osmington is this famous hill-figure of George III, 108 yards high and 93 yards long.

The town has grown up around the junction, and today stands in the shadow of a huge coal-fired power station built in the 1960s.

Built on the estuary of the Stour, and close to Manningtree, this is a fascinating town. The large buildings behind the barge are maltings, now being converted into living accommodation.

He described Wenlock as an 'ancient little town . . . with no great din of vehicles . . . a dozen 'publics' (pubs), with tidy whitewashed cottages . . . and little girls bobbing curtsies in the street

The Honeypot Lane Murders Just around the corner from this innovative, crescent-shaped block of 50 town houses is Honeypot Lane.

Next to the draper's shop on the left is Walmsley's Stationers and Bookshop. The large window proudly proclaims that they have a Bible and Prayer Book Department.

The Late 19th to the Early 20th Century Forget six counties overhung with smoke Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke, Forget the spreading of the hideous town; Think rather of the pack-horse on

The stocks and pillory in Market Square remind us of a time when justice was swift and direct.

In the 19th century this area of the town was prone to flooding, and the mill dam was blamed. In 1879 the Corporation bought the mill from Lord Stafford and built a new weir and floodgates.

The town's name comes from Old English and means lime or linden wood. Domesday Book calls the settlement here Linhest.

A panoramic view of the town with the Priory ruins in the foreground and the tower of the church of St Thomas à Becket on the hill to the left. The Castle can be seen in the centre.

This picture evokes a different world and a very different Crawley from today's seething New Town of more than 60,000 people.

Blackburn means 'on the black stream'.The town guards the entrances to the river valleys we have been looking at in earlier pages - the Ribble, the Hyndeburn and the Hodder - and was the starting

The Town Hall, in Church Street, was designed by John Lowe and erected during 1880-81 on the site of the old cockpit.

Its buildings are both picturesque and smart and have obviously developed at the whim of individual owners, rather than uniformly as with some other towns on the Isle of Wight.

Bournemouth and the neighbouring towns became a sanctuary for the rich and famous, including writers such as Robert Louis Stevenson.

This ancient market town clings to the limestone bluff of a gorge carved by the River Nidd, and is famous for several reasons: it boasts the oldest woollen mill in England, Mother Shipton, a 15th-century

Slightly further west, and just one minute away from the town centre, the 300 acres of wet grassland that are Doxey marshes remain largely unspoiled.

Slightly further west, and just one minute away from the town centre, the 300 acres of wet grassland that are Doxey marshes remain largely unspoiled.

The town continued as the leading industrial and commercial centre for Upper Wensleydale until 1699, when Hawes was granted a market charter. From then on, Askrigg went into decline.