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St Mary's Church 1907 Moving north-east to the western end of the Sussex Weald, we reach the town of Horsham, which expanded greatly after the railway arrived in 1848.

St Mary's Church 1907 Moving north-east to the western end of the Sussex Weald, we reach the town of Horsham, which expanded greatly after the railway arrived in 1848.

From the Market Place our town tour heads south along perhaps the best street in Abingdon for the survival of older buildings: East St Helen Street.

By the end of the 17th century it had been rapidly developed by the building of shops, taverns, hotels and houses as the town flourished as a fashionable spa resort.

Its designers considered that this new access to Torquay would popularise this hitherto quiet end of town.

Sedbergh is a pleasant little market town on the southern edge of the lovely Howgill Fells. It grew rapidly in the Victorian era, being on a strategic turnpike road from Kendal to Kirkby Stephen.

Most of the best shops in Walsall are either in the town centre or situated on the edge; between them they pull in thousands of shoppers.

The Swan Hotel acquired a multi-level car park to its rear (its first concession to the age of the motor car) and the erstwhile car showrooms at the northern end of Town Bridge were demolished and replaced

This old coaching town on the London to Brighton road had the misfortune to be designated a New Town in 1947. Now swamped by housing estates, the High Street was mainly pedestrianised.

Its designers considered that this new access to Torquay would help popularise this hitherto quiet end of town.

Looking along Market Street towards Market Square, at the far end we can see the old Town Hall.

This was the period that saw the beginning of the end for the town - in 1959 the last steel works closed, followed in 1987 by the last iron works.

This street-name reminds us of Belfast the market town: the view looks from Arthur Square (another Chichester name).

Chain and department stores arrived early in Bournemouth, though a large number of family-owned shops survived until the end of the 20th century.

Here we are looking west along Est Street, to the Town Hall and Market Place.

This 15th-century building was either an early Moot (Town) Hall or a Guildhall.

Beyond the far end of Fargate was Balm Green, to the east of the present City Hall, which contained Barker's Pool, a source of fresh water for the town's residents to supplement the supply from

With its castle and town established by the Normans at the end of the 11th century, Ludlow was later to become a most important military base controlling the Welsh Marches (or borders).

By the end of the 17th century it had been rapidly developed by the building of shops, taverns, hotels and houses as the town flourished as a fashionable spa resort.

East from Claygate and across the Hogsmill river valley, the route reaches Ewell, now by-passed by the A24 London to Worthing road.

This is the New Town, the railway end of Swindon, quite close to the GWR works and their workers' housing. Note the tram lines, overhead wires and the boy with his hoop.

Amongst other things, this spelt the end of the town's two highly-regarded grammar-technical schools, Fryerns and Barstable.

Taking the form of a Celtic cross, it remembered the dead of the town during the First World War, which had ended just a year before.

The passenger ferry from the Essex port of Tilbury approaches the Town Pier at the end of its journey across the Thames.