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The elegant, classical façade of the Shire Hall has dominated the Market Square since it was built in 1798, replacing an earlier Elizabethan hall.

Round the bend, past the old garage, the A271 continues as Gardner Street, the main shopping street of the village.

The Trustee Savings Bank building, on the right, was formerly the office of Stroud's Conservative newspaper, the Stroud News.

Here we see the bridge over the River Greta in the busy little market town of Keswick in the northern Lakes.

Here we have a clearer view of the tall Town Hall building to the right, and beyond it lies the premises of the National Provincial Bank.

We are looking up Bridge Street past the North Street junction.

At the opposite end of Chapel Lane stands the post office (left), which originally offered a full counter service, but is now relegated to sorting and parcels distribution.

West of the Queen Street junction the London-Bath A4 was remarkably narrow, but is now pedestrianised and by-passed. This view looks east.

It was thanks to the generosity of cotton manufacturer William Atkinson that Southport got a Free Library and Art Gallery; he paid for both of them.

Down by the river bank, the paviours follow the line of the medieval wharf. Behind the moat are the medieval outer defences, the inner one overlooking the outer - the battlements are 19th-century.

This last view of St Mary's Church gives a clearer impression of the relatively unrestored tower stonework.

The hotel stands on the north bank of the River Leven, by the bridge.

By the time the castle was finished in around 1200, Richmond had grown in size; a market has been held here since 1155.

A hint of the heavily-wooded banks of the Brun can be seen on the left of this picture.

The high banks along many stretches of this great river confirm its habit of flooding.

The cobblestones was the dock area where the barges would come into the village to unload their goods. It was probably built in the 13th century, when the town of Swavesey was first established.

The street is now a cul-de-sac since the opening of the by- pass in the 1980s. The imposing red brick almshouses (right), built by Edward Colman in 1731, were modernised in 1966.

Haddenham was one of the chief breeding areas for the Aylesbury duck; its network of streams and ponds was of immense value to this industry, even if the village was famously foul-smellling in a hot summer

Walton-le-Soken was an agricultural and beachcombing parish that expanded into Walton-on-the-Naze in the 1820s. Its early visitors were upper-class people who had summer homes here.

The High Bridge timber-framed buildings had got into a deplorable state by the 20th century, and were extensively restored and rebuilt in 1900 by William Watkins, who also added the three dormer windows

Spalding's townscape is 'made' by the River Welland, which bisects the town. There are roads along each bank and houses face the river, giving it a slightly Dutch feel.

A Gloucestershire Constabulary police officer directs traffic at the cross. He is facing Westgate Street. Dorothy Perkins store is immediately behind him.

Located at the corner of Stockerston Road and South Backway, West Bank was built in 1866 by Howard Candler, 'a small, energetic mathematician', who always refused to have more than six boys boarding.

Here we see the bridge over the River Greta in the busy little market town of Keswick in the northern Lakes.