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A market town like Aylsham supplies a wide range of services to customers in the town and in surrounding villages: here these include greetings cards, a printing service and the supply and repair of televisions

It is a town full of history - the founder of Yale University in the US (Elihu Yale), came from the Wrexham area, and is buried at St Giles's church.

Regrettably, local stone was not used but luckily the house is on the outskirts of town and not easily visible.

Stone proclaims itself to be a 'Canal Town' and reaching it from this river bridge involves crossing the Trent & Mersey Canal.

The town is known as Kington simply because it was the King's town at one time and it is generally assumed that the king in question was Edward the Confessor.

Today the name Long Barn is associated with a modern housing development, but in 1965 the area was still open countryside and farmland.

Whalley is a very ancient town and steeped in history.

Whalley is a very ancient town and steeped in history.

This view was taken looking along the backwater from Abingdon Bridge with the gardens of houses in East St Helen Street on the right and a then well-treed Nag's Head Island on the left.

The narrow steeply- sloping Union Street, east of the church of St James, leads the eye northward out of town and towards the stark ridge of Peaked Down; its visible notch gives the down

Terminus Road, laid out in 1850, became a major commercial thoroughfare in the town, and the massive Baroque domed building on the left, sadly now demolished, symbolises the prosperity and pride of the

In all these photographs the tower of St Lawrence's church dominates the town. And

The wonderfully over-the- top Baroque town hall is a triumph for the town, and much better than the pallid neo-classical one it replaced.

Richard Rigg opened his Windermere Hotel in 1847—the same year as the Kendal and Windermere Railway reached the town— and his yellow-and-black coaches provided a connecting service from the adjacent

Budleigh Golf Club was created on what had been common land on the cliffs to the west of the town, and is now known as East Devon Golf Club.

Also situated north of the town and at one time also called the Lions' Den, these sandstone caves were once a feature of The Plot, an area of common grazing land.

The picture shows the northern end of the village looking towards Downend.

When Victoria University broke up in 1904, Leeds was left by far the poor relation, unable to match the financial input enjoyed by Manchester and Liverpool.

Dedicated to two 6th-century saints, St Mael and St Sulien, this church looks down on the town and has done since medieval times.

The church was founded in 1107 and was the cause of bitter rivalry between town and prior, culminating in each faction building its own 15th-century bell towers.

Tile-hung walls are a feature of this town, and several examples can be seen here.

Deal is an elegant town, and nowhere is this clearer than in this view, taken from the Pier pavilion looking back to the town.

A delightful view of Hazelgrove, a popular area of the town for promenading.

This crane is still in use, and can be seen from many parts of the town.