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Incorporation as a municipal borough - which Tiverton achieved in 1615 - gave the town a measure of self-government, and allowed, amongst other things, 'a town-hall, a mace, fine gowns and other gayeties

This is another town that now serves largely as a dormitory town to both Birmingham and the Black Country, and also to the new town of Telford.

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.

This was how the Town Hall in Albert Square looked twelve years after its official opening in 1877.

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.

This photograph shows the wide expanse of Westgate, a street typical of the old market towns in the area: there was room for animals being driven to market, market stalls, and all the people who came into

In the mid-19th century Scotsman John Laurie came to Romford with plans to create Laurie Town, the country's first garden city.

This illustrious and sublime town is on the east bank of the River Ouse, two miles from the Wash.

Newark enjoyed great prosperity in the 18th century through industrial growth and through its status as a coaching town on the Great North Road.

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

This photograph is a reminder of the days when small market towns like Andover had more than one railway station.

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.

Louth was a prosperous, compact market town serving a large area of the central Wolds.

Saffron Walden is named after the plant, saffron, which was used for dyeing woollen cloth here in the Middle Ages, when the town was prosperous and important in the wool trade.

We start in the Market Place of Grantham, a town of 30,000 whose medieval wealth was based on wool from the sheep grazing the Kesteven fields.

Main Road c1955 Once the market town for Northumberland's principal lead-mining area, Allendale Town also lays claim to be at the geographical centre of the UK.

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.

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.

Elland is a small town built around the industries of woollen mills, textiles, and quarries for coal, stone and clay.

A double-decker bus brings trade to the town's main shopping street. Batley was one of the pioneers of steam trams; they ran from 1874, and the depot in Bradford Road later became Wilson's Mill.

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 old town, quaint and picturesque, is situated on the low ground near the edge of the harbour, and as a matter of course, the streets are very narrow.

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.

This wooded area to the north of the town was laid out and intersected with walks in the latter half of the 19th century and remain today a pleasant, if steep walk to the northern rim of the bowl