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'Henley, a market town, and one of the neatest, cleanest, and most respectable in the County ... is exceedingly pleasantly situated on the west side of the river Thames'.

Horatio Nelson was at school in Downham Market in the later 18th century; a fellow-pupil was George Manby, inventor of the life-saving rocket.

In this view, the Market Place shows signs of a limited amount of redevelopment. A new retail block has been built between the post office and Marks & Spencer, replacing Lesters and the White Swan.

The wholesale fish market at Brixham was the largest in the west of England at this time.

Castleton's war memorial cross in the Market Place was still a relatively new feature when this photograph was taken.

Penrith, 'capital' of the northern Lake District, is an attractive red sandstone market town. But it did not escape the 'Poets' Corner' craze for street-naming of the late 19th century.

The old market cross still stands by the gate to the parish church of St Alkelda at Giggleswick, in the heart of Craven limestone country.

This wide street once held a cattle market. It now has one-way traffic, but little has changed here except that building societies and estate agents have taken over the shops.

The prominent white board indicates Fowey's quay and market toll charges.

In the 13th century the site had been a market-field ('chipping field'), which was rented and worked by smallholders known as mol men from the rent they paid.

Tenbury received its first charter for a market and fair in 1249, but remained a fairly humble country town until 1839 when a medicinal spring was discovered, leading to the creation of a pump room and

The market has not changed fundamentally over the years, except that today the emphasis is on clothes and general bric-a-brac, whereas the livestock sales that originated here are long gone.

Beyond the vehicles parked on the left, the hint of an open space indicates the existence of the market square.

In the streets off the market, many picture postcard gardens add to the attractiveness of the town.

At the lower end of the market square, leading down to the Swale Falls, is Millgate - little changed today.

The building on the left fronts the open market, said to be the biggest in Europe, with access ways running between the shops.

Wrotham stands at the foot of chalk hills alongside the Pilgrim's Way, and was once a substantial market centre.

The village war memorial (right), on the green in Castleton's Market Place, takes the form of a Celtic cross.

Originally one of four market crosses, the Poultry Cross, at the junction of Butcher Row and Minster Street, is the only one to survive.

The head office of the Wilts and Dorset Bank, built in 1869, is now Lloyds Bank, and is just one of a row of substantial, impressive buildings along the northern side of the Market Square.

Here we see the sturdy porticoed front of Botley's famous Market Hall, built in 1848.The turret and clock above were erected by local parishioners to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in

At the other end of the Market Square is the bronze statue of James Boswell, drinking companion and biographer of Samuel Johnson.

We are looking down the main shopping area to the old Market Hall, which was partly demolished in 1992.

It is dominated by its cobbled Market Square, which leads down to the castle, home to the Ingilby family for more than 600 years.