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Moving south from Thrapston we reach Raunds, another small Northamptonshire market town transformed into a Victorian boot and shoe manufacturing town.

The clean forceful lines of the neo- classical new town hall were in marked contrast to its rather sedate and friendly looking predecessor, built by the Luton architects John Williams & Sons

Chertsey was once the town at the gates of one of the most powerful abbeys in England.

The bustling town of Huddersfield, like so many other Pennine towns, was founded on the wealth won from the 19th-century explosion in the worsted and woollen industries.

That careful observer tells us that 'the welthe of the towne standith most by draping, and noe towne of England at this present tyme maketh so many cloathes yearly as this towne doth'.

Our tour of the towns and villages near Lincoln starts in Gainsborough, a town of the ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Lindsey that ruled what is now north Lincolnshire.

Dawley and Wellington were rivals to control Shropshire's new town. People here wanted to call it Dawley New Town.

This photograph shows how near the hills and open countryside are to the towns around here. Oswaldtwistle Moor, to the south of the town, is a love- ly unspoilt area of outstanding beauty.

It is noon, and a convoy of open-topped char à bancs roll into town, no doubt bound for the castle. The hotel on the right has now gone, but the Victoria opposite still serves customers today.

The town of Aldershot is largely Victorian. In those early days some of the streets had shops on one side and barracks on the other. The older part of the town lies close to the railway station.

The town has been popular for centuries; as a spa town it was known as 'the Queen of watering places', and it has always been a healthy, bracing and fashionable resort.

The town council still holds its meetings at the 17th-century Town Hall - note its open loggia. The building is owned and maintained by a charitable trust.

The town lies just inside the Dartmoor National Park alongside the main Exeter to Plymouth road. Once stage coaches thun- dered through, forcing bystanders onto the narrow pavements.

The clock tower dominates the main street of this West Cumberland town.

The move to locate the then Town Hall out of the 'old town' was considered bold and proved contentious.

Birkenhead, the largest town on the Wirral, was the dream of one man, John Laird.

Lying in the valley of the Severn, the town does not seem particularly Welsh. Its original name was 'Pool', with the 'Welsh' prefix added to distinguish it from Poole in Dorset.

Taken from the edge of Parsonage Woods to the north of the town, this view, almost unchanged today, looks past the cornfield towards the historic market town nestling in its Chiltern valley.

The town's name comes from the Anglo-Saxon word for frontier or border.

It has been said of Bebington that 'though the town centre is lacking in character, it is also open, green and wholesome', and that description still works well now.

1150, cannot compare with that of Oakham Castle of c1180, some twenty miles east of the city, as an example of Norman architecture; but as part of the extensive remains of Leicester Castle and

Sellargarth was a small farming hamlet close to the abbey, and the population were all tenants of the abbey.

Standing beside a bridge across the River Brun, from which the town takes its name, is Burnley Town Hall.

There is no such thing as an ordinary street in this town. True, the shops may have similar uses, but the Victorians made the most of the spa town by building wide, airy thoroughfares.