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In AD1001, Viking raiders under the command of King Sweyn landed in the Exe estuary, raiding and burning the town of Exanmutha before marching on to Exeter.

Topsham is a muddle of delightful old buildings, with narrow lanes and alleys diverging from its long, winding main street.

Hanley has two famous sons: the author Arnold Bennett and the aircraft designer Reginald Mitchell were both born in the town.

Even in a class-ridden Victorian society, Bournemouth entertained anyone who could afford to stay in the town.

Behind it is the Town Hall of 1825, containing council chambers, a market hall and a police station. The horse-drawn coach is perhaps waiting for custom from the Elephant and Castle Hotel opposite.

On the left, between A G Day's, the stationer, newsagent and bookseller's shop and the Angel Inn with its illuminated sign, is the old archway topped by the town clock, all of which are owned by the

The attractive entrance to the town is seen here; we are looking north from Bath. The parish church of St Mary stands boldly on its mound.

The photograph gives the impression that the town is waiting for someone or some-thing to lift it from gloom and despondency.

This 1960s photograph shows how uncomfortably the Victorian Town Hall at Dewsbury sat with the recently-built modernistic shop and office block opposite.

Early closing day gives a peaceful air to this normally busy market town, built around a six-acre lake known as Diss Mere: local tradition says that it is bottomless.

The Lion, the town's main hotel, became a church, and Baigent's the draper's next door a restaurant.

The name of the town was first recorded in AD 955 as Andeferas. Andover was a municipal borough as long ago as the reign of King John, and later became an established centre for the wool trade.

The town was once a shipbuilding centre and the chief port of Merioneth, with a large trade in flannel and knitted stockings. Today, the Three Peaks Race starts here.

The town of Poole prospered as its merchant adventurers sailed to and traded with ports across the world. It sent ships to aid Edward III's invasion of France during the Hundred Years War.

Tring is in Hertfordshire, a market town at the base of a salient of the county that projects into Buckinghamshire from the Chilterns along the valley of the River Bulbourne.

The lawns around the town are areas originally cleared of woodland, both to provide timber and to allow deer to graze.

Elements of this small historic coaching town still remain, including the well-restored George Hotel and its inn sign on gallows spanning the now mainly pedestrianised road.

Reading is one of those towns that can only be appreciated on foot.

The church, castle and market hall, the historic heart of the town, remain at the centre, but more modern housing fans out from it in this scene.

The population in 1960 was 50,000, yet there are only about 75 cars parked at the station, as most people worked in the town.

We are looking in the opposite direction from 72955 (pages 52-53) along the Esplanade, with the tower of the town church of Holy Trinity to the left of the clock tower.

Burton Street refers to the former leper hospital of St Mary and St Lazarus established about 1150 by Robert de Mowbray, to the south of the town; it can only be seen now as a series of earthworks to the

The harbour was begun in 1817, and ever since has been the principal terminus of the Holyhead run.

As a seaside town, Budleigh has developed almost entirely since the beginning of the eighteenth century. It was known as Saltre in 1210, and had become Salterne by 1405.