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The place became a favourite with artists and holidaymakers alike; many of its red-roofed cottages were perched somewhat precariously on the cliffs. It is also known as Bay Town.

St Lawrence's church was built in the Perpendicular style and paid for by merchants made rich from wool.

Most of the buildings in the town centre date from Tudor and Jacobean days.

Described in 1972 by Maxwell Fraser in his book, 'Welsh Border Country' as 'one of those perfect English towns which are unsurpassable in their friendly atmosphere and old-world charm', Ross is beautifully

However, the currents are strong and the shoreline shelves steeply. Cowes' reputation as a yachting paradise overwhelmed all real attempts to open the town up as a simple holiday resort.

The town's premier shopping area still exhibits the same charm that is evident in these pictures. The photographer's viewpoint in both instances is now the entrance to a new piazza.

Minchinhampton's very fine Market Hall dates from 1698, and demonstrates the early prosperity of this important wool town.

This road was cut in half when a new by-pass was built round the town. This, the lower half, has changed somewhat, but mainly only in detail.

There were around 160 shops in the town centre by this time, and the Development Corporation had turned their attention to providing Basildon with a health centre, and also police, fire and ambulance stations

This small market town on the banks of the Sow was entitled to hold four annual fairs, mainly for the buying and selling of horses and cattle.

H G Wells and Rudyard Kipling spent their formative years locally, and Arthur Conan Doyle established a medical practice in the town in 1882.

This impressive castle, again ordered by Edward I, was begun in 1283 and constructed on the site of the former Welsh stronghold of Dafydd ap Gryffudd.

Originally a village, Eastleigh expanded rapidly around Bishopstoke Junction after the London and South Western Railway Company's carriage works moved here in 1889-90, followed by the locomotive workshops

Race Hill was once the main road into Launceston from the south; it leads down to the South Gate, which is the last remnant of the old town walls.

The Orange Tea Rooms (we can see the projecting sign) is now a florist, and the slate-hung shop on the right, in this picture Miss Whitford's, selling pots and pans, china, paraffin and other useful items

Stamford, one of England's most attractive and historic towns, is only just in Lincolnshire. The River Welland is the boundary between it and Northamptonshire.

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

Gravesend is a busy industrial town on the river Thames; here the river narrows to become a London river, and coastal pilots hand over to the river men.

This old inn has been serving clients since 1673, and was once an important coaching stop. In the 1860s, after the demise of the stages, many of its rooms were let out to lodgers.

Hove's genteel grandeur continued to appeal to those who found Brighton somewhat too lively, and the town expanded north into the Downs in tides of suburban housing.

Following the decline of Steyning's port during the Middle Ages, the focus of the town shifted southwards from around the church and became centred on the junction of Church Street and the High Street.

Having held the manor since 1606, the Cliftons were instrumental in its development as a select residential and resort town during the 19th century.

The Town Hall is in the middle of the ancient market place.

Go there today and you will find a delightful little town with handsome buildings, lines of busy shops and pubs and many cars parked at the roadside - all of it creating a colourful, bustling community