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In the centre is the 98ft high bell tower of 1853.

Designed by Lanchester and Lodge, who were appointed after winning a competition in 1930, this was originally known as the Birmingham Hospitals Centre at Edgbaston; it was later named after Queen

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 Ordnance Survey department has declared Dunsop Bridge to be the village nearest to the exact centre of the British Isles.

The petrol station in the centre of the market place was the Town Hall with an open arcaded ground floor, the arches now glazed. It dates from 1764, and surely deserved a better fate.

Its old courthouse remains in the centre, and the stocks where local criminals met their punishment are now on show in the 13th-century church of St Michael and St Angels.

This wooded hill in the town centre is topped by the ruins of a Norman castle, whose builders might not be entirely surprised to find that the outer bailey now houses a zoo: after all, exotic animals were

Summer Hill is to the west of the Cross, which has become the town centre since the focus of development shifted here in the 1950s.

The village rose to prosperity as a cloth making centre, but when the Industrial Revolution shifted production from weavers' cottages to industrial factories, Uley's fortunes went into decline.

Four hundred years ago, Godstone was at the centre of the leather trade and the manufacture of gunpowder, while to the south there were important iron-works.

In the centre we can see the Grapes public house, and to the right is the sign for the Sun Inn, behind which was a smithfield, or cattle market.

of the time states that 'the church of All Saints is a plain and ancient edifice of flint, consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle and porch, and a small wooden tower with pinnacles, rising from the centre

The Ordnance Survey department has declared Dunsop Bridge to be the village nearest to the exact centre of the British Isles.

The East Suffolk Hotel (the white building, centre) now houses tourist information and an art gallery.

The striking half-timbered buildings in the centre no longer exist. Melias' decorative shop sign is a fine example of the sign-writer's art.

From the cross-roads at the centre of Romford we look towards London as a policeman prepares to control what little traffic there is.

In the centre is a motorbike and sidecar, a popular and affordable form of transport.

Before the railway came in 1838 and today's town began to grow, this was the centre of Woking. Here it appears as though it is completely deserted with not a soul to be seen.

The site now houses a business park and a retail centre, but Brooklands Museum tells the story of its historic past.

The clock tower shown here, partly enclosed by an hexagonal shelter and situated at the centre of a traffic system, stands on the site of what once was a wayside chapel.

The parish church of St Mary (in the distance, centre) is famous for its 15th- century choir stalls transferred from Whalley Abbey.

The red brick building in the centre was a day school and lecture hall attached to the 18th-century Congregational church (the white pediment behind it).

We are looking towards the cross and what was to become in 1968 a redeveloped town centre with new shops, flats and offices.

In this picture we can already see the growth of the congestion that was soon to become a problem in the centre of the town.