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Its accessibility from the towns and cities of the Midlands has made Bourton a favourite day out. The village scarcely seems despoiled by having so many admirers.

A century after his visit, the town had been transformed from a quiet village to a vibrant centre for the textile industry.

The Market Hall, built of red sandstone, dates from the mid 1600s and stands on the site of an earlier hall. The carving between the windows is of a bust of Charles II.

At Hickling, where the Broadland waters fan into expansive shallows, there is a pleasing jumble of red tiled and thatched buildings clustering around the old Pleasure Boat Inn.

Instow grew as a resort town at the mouth of the Torridge in the 1830s, and most of the terraces and villas on the shore in this picture date from then.

The River Fowey is one of Cornwall's longest rivers, rising 900 feet above sea level on Bodmin Moor and passing through the ancient Stannary Town of Lostwithiel on its way to the sea.

This photograph was taken outside the Town Hall, looking towards St James's parish church. H B Penty, opticians and jewellers (right) has been rebuilt now as Dorothy Perkins.

The town has recovered its air of prosperity after the hardships and shortages of the war years, and its growing affluence is demonstrated by the number of cars parked beside the pavements.

Not so in 1633, when there were only three licensed sellers in the whole town: grocers Philip Sherwin (who later became mayor) and Thomas Hunt, and the apothecary John Stubbs.

Besides being a market centre and wool town, Fairford was on an important coaching route in the days of horse-drawn travel, as it straddled the road from London to the south-west.

Henry Wormwell, a mill and general furnishing engineer, had premises on the corner of Piccadilly, the block of shops just opposite the Town Hall.

This picturesque flint village was once the most significant of the Glaven estuary ports, and its old Custom House bears testimony to its prestigious past.

This admirable market town, with its Queen Anne and Georgian buildings, was once hailed as 'the Montpellier of England'. Five roads meet at the market square.

The Godolphins built the Angel as their town house in the 17th century, and it became a hotel in the mid 18th century.

Everyone is posing for the camera right through the town centre, and in the road too. Note the elderly bearded gentleman on the left, and the shopkeeper in his apron on the right.

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

By the 18th century, Ormskirk was already an important agricultural and market town, but with the arrival of the railway in 1849 it rapidly developed as an attractive residential area for Liverpool's prosperous

This is an altogether more busy scene ), and newly emancipated women boldly walk in all directions. The elegant Swan Hotel dominated the square, then and now in fact.

As Reading expanded south, St Giles', decaying and small, proved unable to cope, and Christchurch was built in 1861-2.

When Brunel built his Great Western Railway in the 1840s, Didcot became a major junction for the lines to Bristol and Oxford.

Well-mannered town centre buildings open onto the flower-bedecked triangle, but the portents of a more gaudy future are already apparent.

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.

Pinstone Street was laid out in the mid-1870s as part of a major development of Sheffield town centre that saw wide well-planned streets replace a hotch-potch of alleyways, small workshops, stables and

The town has a long commercial history, and was once the home of many prosperous textile merchants.