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This view reveals Boston's elegant and urbane character.

The large weather-boarded buildings on the left are the silk mills of Warner & Sons, who had taken over the business of Walters & Co in 1894.

Built in the late 14th century for the Carthusian monks of Hinton Priory, the George Inn catered for the wool merchants who came to the town's two annual fairs: it performed a useful service and was

Beyond the route suggested in this chapter, which finishes at Bedford Park, the 1950s and 1960s expansion of Bedford to the east was well planned with parks, shopping parades and schools - many of the

This chapter finishes with a flourish in Glastonbury, one of England's most historic smaller towns, a major centre of pilgrimage in the middle ages and still regarded by many as of mythic importance.

n Victorian times Dorking was still a very rural town with a wide market place in the centre. The shops displayed their wares to the elements.

n Victorian times Dorking was still a very rural town with a wide market place in the centre. The shops displayed their wares to the elements.

When the town was first laid out it was to be an exclusive place, but within a few years, cheap, terraced houses had been built and Atherton's vision was in tatters.

Gravesend has two Victorian piers: the Royal Terrace Pier of 1843 lies to the east of the slightly earlier Town Pier we see in this view.

This perfect little town, the capital of the Kentish Weald, was formerly a centre of cloth weaving.

A year later many residents would be discussing the horrors of a whirlwind, which ripped through the town wrecking roofs and farms.

The Square is dominated by Crewe's war memorial, which is a very grand affair; so it should be – it commemorates so many people from the town.

The Lamb Hotel, in the centre of the picture, was built in 1861, and is currently being converted into flats.

Once this was the part of the street with clothing shops; it is now the part of town with the banks, building societies and estate agents.

The black and white marks on the kerbstones indicate the junction. This is a small handsome town on the River Test with Georgian buildings that are rendered or red brick.

This photograph is taken further down Market Street.

This view is taken from Brenchley Gardens, an oasis of peace and quiet near the very heart of town. The gardens were given to Maidstone in 1873 by Julius Lucius Brenchley.

This is the A16 coming in from Stamford towards the town centre. Mill Cottage is on the right, and the River Welland is at the other side of the house.

The town originally grew up around the burial place of the Celtic Saint Tydfil.

The structure behind the drinking fountain is the Simeon Monument, 'erected and lighted for ever at the expense of Edward Simeon as a mark of affection to his native town' in 1804.

Beyond are the town's two superb 'Somerset style' Perpendicular Gothic church towers, St Mary's beyond the (now demolished) factory chimney and St James' Church to the right, also a 19th-century rebuild

Looking west towards Pidley cum Fenton, we see Somersham before the start of the building programme which has brought an industrial estate and several large housing developments.

For centuries the town mill had ground the corn for the local farmers.

The East Gate to the town was demolished in 1800, but the old South Gate on the road from London still stands.