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Now totally pedestrianised with trees planted to give some shade, the Square is dominated by the 16th- century market hall (left) and the statue of Robert Clive, Clive of India.

White Nancy is a tower situated on the ridge to the south of the town, and is said to have been built by a member of the Gaskell family to commemorate the Battle of Waterloo, and to be named after one

Edward I made Helston an important regional stannary town, and its official Coinage Hall stood in this street until the early 1800s.

The remains of Hastings Castle, the first built by William the Conqueror, crown Hastings' West Hill, with superb views over the town and out to sea.

It was once a prosperous wool town, and famed for its lace. Little has changed since this picture was taken, save that the clock tower of 1887 is now painted blue and white.

Swansea's maritime tradition has always been vital to the town, and the various port extensions drove its economic development.

Frith's photographer could not resist one of the most photographed views along the Thames: Windsor Castle on its cliff-top towering above the town and river.

Porthminster Beach, almost in the town and just below the railway station, was extremely popular even a century ago. The crowd appears to be there for an event - perhaps a Sunday-school outing.

The shopping parade was built between 1960 and 1966 by Wallis, Finlay, Smith & Ball on the site of a house of some historic interest called Fountainville.

'A grey town and a grim town, pervaded with the unlovely spirit of its fearful prison.' Thus Arthur Mee captures the forbidding character of this remote community, beset by fogs and rain.

Denbigh saw action during the Wars of The Roses and changed hands on several occasions. In 1468 it finally fell to a Lancastrian force led by Jasper Tewdwr, Earl of Pembroke.

This still stands on the north-east of the town and is the only one of Rye's four gates to survive. It is part of the fortifica- tions authorised by Edward III in the 14th century.

Some time during the second half of the 19th century, Bracknell became a town, helped by the coming of the railway in 1856 and the development of market gardening and brick-making.

On the right of the photograph is the 15th-century God's House Tower, formerly the south-east gate of the old town and one of the earliest artillery fortifications in Europe.

Newport has always been an important trading town, and at the height of its fortunes carried goods such as timber, malt, wheat and flour.

The significance of the River Medway in the life and development of Chatham is well illustrated in this view of the town and the river from the slopes of The Lines above Town Hall Gardens.

A study of cyclists and pedestrians on what is now the A30.

Early visitors preferred to stay in the hotels and villas in this area, within easy walking distance of the sea.

Its construction marked the town's commitment to its role as a resort.

The 160ft tower of the mainly Perpendicular church of St Peter and St Paul soars majestically over the town and is a prominent day mark for shipping in the choppy coastal waters.

Richard Rigg opened his Windermere Hotel in 1847 - the same year as the Kendal and Windermere Railway reached the town - and his yellow-and-black coaches provided a connecting service from the adjacent

The Old Hall, very much the finest building in the town and now largely surrounded by Victorian housing, sits in its grassy square, a potent reminder of the town's great medieval past.

Following the death of the owner, the site was acquired by the town and first opened to the public in 1960.

Our progress down-river reaches Dorchester. It was a Roman town and the seat of an Anglo-Saxon bishopric, and is now dominated by its great late 11th-century Abbey church.