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Now we are walking towards the Market Place. The Lord Nelson (right) has served Southwold faithfully for generations, and is popular with locals and visitors today.

The market town of Bovey Tracey at one time had two railway stations; now it has none. The Dolphin Hotel is an old coaching and posting house.

Grotesque gargoyles (like those at Winchcombe church) look down from the church into the Market Square. Some of the town's fine Georgian buildings can be seen here.

This view looks along Gloucester Road from its junction with the High Street beside the Market Hall.

Bowler-hatted farmers go about their business in the centre of town around the Butter and Poultry Market Hall. A few cattle can be seen on the left.

Market Strand Quay was later extended in 1905 to become the Prince of Wales Pier, which is still used for ferry services.

The Market Square is notable for the Cock's elaborate ironwork bracket, and for the famously wonky timbered carriageway (centre right).

In this view, the Market Place shows signs of a limited amount of redevelopment.

The market moved from the High Street to a new site behind the north side of the High Street in 1926.

In the early 1900s the road was widened and the market house and several buildings in the same row were built to the designs of W J Tamlyn.

This ancient borough and market town is most famous for its fine-grained granite, which was used in the construction of Waterloo Bridge.

The demolition of the Butter Market provided a site for the granite war memorial.

The demolition of the Butter Market provided a site for the granite war memorial.

Tetbury retains all the charms of a market town from the time of the Stuarts.

The flower market was no less frenetic.

Crowds gather under tented canopies and around trestle-tabled market stalls to snatch up bargains, just as they have done for 500 years. Good 18th-century buildings dominate the scene.

Temple Square was probably a principal crossroads in the 10th-century Anglo-Sacon burh, with Kingsbury the market place at the south-east corner of the early town.

The open building on the left, now occupied by Dartington Glass, was until the 1990s the old fish market, built in 1892.

Now known as the 'Gateway to the Moors', Pickering is a small market town still served by the steam trains of the North York Moors Railway.

Standing beyond the market area of High Town, near to the Shire Hall, St Peter's is the civic church of Hereford.

A similar view to 33362, looking towards the old market square two years later, highlights the range of architecture in this fine ancient thoroughfare.

This photograph looks away from the Market Place, along Wisbech's High Street.

Lechlade's function as a market town was overshadowed by its near neighbour Fairford.

Records show that there were butchers here back into the 19th century, linking the area with its designation as the shambles on the edge of the market.