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There were once three other market crosses in Salisbury: Barnwell, Cheese and Wool. Today, only this one remains. The top of St Thomas' church can be seen in the background.

Here, in the middle of all the people, animals and carts, stood the Market Cross - an open-sided structure consisting of a roof supported on wooden posts.

Helmsley is the attractive castle-crowned 'capital' of the North York Moors National Park, and this view shows passengers alighting from a Bedford coach parked beside the Eleanor-style cross in the spacious Market

The market is still held here, and buyers and sellers come in from miles around.

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

The Cottage Hospital moved here in 1925 from its original premises situated by the market cross.

Wide streets are typical of country towns, designed so that markets could be held without blocking the main thoroughfare.

The seat of the medieval governance of the city, the Guildhall was built in 1407-13, but 1930s demolition in the market area has exposed the mainly Victorian south elevation to general view.

This pleasant but rather undistinguished wide street was the scene of a Saturday market since it was granted in 1219.

Covering an area of seventeen acres, the park includes a statue of Queen Victoria, guarded by two terracotta lions which originally stood in the Market Place.

The ornate fountain and clock tower forms the centrepiece of the Market Place, but it looks as though Willenhall will soon have another attraction, the Zorba Grill—no doubt inspired by the film starring

Painswick was a market centre for the smaller villages along the valley.

Buildings from several different periods overlook Reading's Market Place.

The wide main streets of Bridport were originally designed to be highways, market venues and workshops.

The long High Street curves gently towards the triangular market place in front of the Abbey gatehouse. The Ford Service Depot on the right, with the two Fords parked nearby, is still a car showroom.

In the background is the Exchange; although the largest building in the market place, it was not grand or overpowering.

It is situated in the south-east corner of the Market Place.

This closer view of Market House also reveals the Crown Hotel (on the other side of the High Street and next to Larkinson's shop) which was the source of the Great Fire of Biggleswade in 1785.

The ornate fountain and clock tower forms the centrepiece of the Market Place, but it looks as though Willenhall will soon have another attraction, the Zorba Grill—no doubt inspired by the film starring

The old market place is more of a grassy village green at this time. The High Street is relatively unchanged.

The market gardens in the centre are now the Wylie Road housing development. Christ Church was built in 1830-31, high above the town on Sambourne Hill.

This quiet little village north of Woodbridge was granted a market in the mid 15th century by Henry VI. Four hundred years later, it was here that John Kirby wrote his influential 'Suffolk Traveller'.

Aylsham prospered with linen manufacture in the Middle Ages, then worsted weaving, before becoming an agricultural market town in the 18th century.

Aylsham prospered with linen manufacture in the Middle Ages, then worsted weaving, before becoming an agricultural market town in the 18th century.