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This small market town was named after a Danish leader called Herolveston. Harleston has retained its character, and has a good number of varied old buildings.

We can glimpse the Market Hall a little beyond it. The shop fronts and buildings on the left are similar to today, but the one major difference is the huge increase in traffic on this road.

It is only a few miles from Market Rasen on the way to Grimsby, and is well worth a visit.

Close to the Wiltshire border, this little market and wool town has retained many of its 17th- and 18th- century buildings, such as the Eight Bells Inn, seen here on the right.

The original Charter for this busy market was given around 1250 at the time the town became a borough.

The old cattle market occupied part of the former bailey of the castle, until 1960 when it moved out to make way for a car park.

The fine timber-framed Market Cross of 1602 replaced the 1549 one, which was destroyed along with more than 100 houses in a disastrous fire in 1600.

A medieval market town, its present Town Hall only dates from 1891, seen here before the tepid 1956 Neo-Georgian facade was added with shops to the ground floor.

The bustling twice-weekly market was clearly a popular event at the turn of the century.

Leland wrote that Bala had 'a little poore market' in the 16th century. This vast Victorian hotel, with its half-timbered detailing, is a feature of the High Street.

On the road to Market Harborough, Desborough is a small town with various ironstone cottages and inns.

Another view of the Market Cross, this time looking north, shows its knobbly crockets to their best advantage. The cross at the top of the shaft was lost many years before.

Thrapston is a small medieval market town engulfed in 19th- and 20th-century housing and factories.

From the Hind Hotel we walk down Market Street and turn right down Midland Road. All the buildings on the left have been replaced by the modern Swansgate shopping centre.

The settlement was probably established in Saxon times, though it did not become an important trading centre until the Abbot of Buckfast established a market here in 1219.

The most famous Shambles is in York but many towns had their shambles or meat market at one time.

the relatively small shop sizes the larger retail chains, such as Boots and Burtons, have moved to bigger and better premises in the new Horsefair development - a successful retail location between the Market

It had a weekly market from 1253 until it was closed in 1982. The last bare-fisted boxing match was held in Wadhurst in 1863. The street is now very busy with traffic and people.

Leland wrote that Bala had 'a little poore market' in the 16th century. This vast Victorian hotel, with its half-timbered detail, is a feature of the High Street.

The thatched Chantry House, on the right, survived the devastating fire of 1795, which destroyed many of the older buildings in this once prosperous mediaeval market town.

The High Street runs along the east side of the market place.

It was here and on the Market Place that local people met to protest about unemployment and hardship in the years following the defeat of Napoleon.

Building commenced on the site of the former red brick market in 1891 to the designs of the local architects Joseph and John Leeming.

This stylish Burton's tailoring shop was built in 1932; it replaced many small shops along Old Market and Princess Street. Originally, the upper floors contained a billiard hall and a skating rink.