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Dawley and Wellington were rivals to control Shropshire's new town.

This photograph shows how near the hills and open countryside are to the towns around here.

It is noon, and a convoy of open-topped char à bancs roll into town, no doubt bound for the castle.

The town of Aldershot is largely Victorian.

The town has been popular for centuries; as a spa town it was known as 'the Queen of watering places', and it has always been a healthy, bracing and fashionable resort.

The town council still holds its meetings at the 17th-century Town Hall - note its open loggia.

The town lies just inside the Dartmoor National Park alongside the main Exeter to Plymouth road.

The clock tower dominates the main street of this West Cumberland town.

The move to locate the then Town Hall out of the 'old town' was considered bold and proved contentious.

Birkenhead, the largest town on the Wirral, was the dream of one man, John Laird.

Lying in the valley of the Severn, the town does not seem particularly Welsh.

Taken from the edge of Parsonage Woods to the north of the town, this view, almost unchanged today, looks past the cornfield towards the historic market town nestling in its Chiltern valley.

The town's name comes from the Anglo-Saxon word for frontier or border.

It has been said of Bebington that 'though the town centre is lacking in character, it is also open, green and wholesome', and that description still works well now.

1150, cannot compare with that of Oakham Castle of c1180, some twenty miles east of the city, as an example of Norman architecture; but as part of the extensive remains of Leicester Castle and

Sellargarth was a small farming hamlet close to the abbey, and the population were all tenants of the abbey.

Standing beside a bridge across the River Brun, from which the town takes its name, is Burnley Town Hall.

There is no such thing as an ordinary street in this town.

Boston, Botolph's Town, was laid out along the banks of the River Witham some time around 1100, within the parish of nearby Skirbeck, and rapidly became a great port, although it only received its first

The Trent tends to split into several channels and produce islands on its flood plain as it passes close to the town, having collected the grossly polluted River Tame five miles upstream.

Just near the boating lake is the old bandstand, now with only its base - the upper structure fell into disrepair and was removed.

The Westgate Centre, the Eastgate Shopping Centre, and the high street shops in East Walk, Southernhay, and the Town Square give a comprehensive shopping experience, and of course there is the

Walsden is a former woollen town in the Calder Gap between Yorkshire and Lancashire, just to the south of Todmorden.

Louth was a prosperous, compact market town serving a large area of the central Wolds.