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Dodbrooke is now part of Kingsbridge, but it once had a market of its own.

Swallowed up by the suburbs of Market Harborough, this little village has managed to salvage some individuality.

The restored medieval Butter Cross, or High Cross, marks the site of a market. The town crier has long stood on this spot in order to communicate important news to the people of Winchester.

Either side of the market place in front of it are various 19th century buildings, some of which were quite new when this photograph was taken.

Grange Farm was offered on the market as building land in 1935, but it was purchased in 1938 by the London Parochial Charities as a campsite for the children of families living in the East End of London

It marks the site of the old market cross, and contains a bell dating from 1684 that once served as the town's fire alarm.

There are quite a few old, half-timbered buildings still extant in the village, but perhaps the most interesting is the old market house, which can be seen on the left of the picture.

At the opposite end of the High Street from Town Bridge, John Bunyan's staue complements that of John Howard in the Market Place.

A Royal Blue coach bound for Liverpool pulls into Market Street. The Cotswold-stone Dorchester Hotel, seen on the extreme left of the photograph, opened in 1947.

Thorne was already a busy market town when the Stainforth & Keadby Canal opened in 1802.

Stramongate means 'the street of the straw men', presumably those who brought the straw to the cattle market.

Bath Street, leading off the Market Place, is one of Ilkeston's main shopping streets. This view looks back towards the tower of St Mark's at the end of the street.

Standing beyond the market area of High Town, near to the Shire Hall, St Peter's is the civic church of Hereford.

The centre of the Market Place is marked by a splendid Victorian cast iron water pump, decorated with fish, crown and arrows, and the motto 'Defend They Ryghts'.

On the left is the Market House, and nearby is the Red Lion.

Fine architecture from all periods survives and the town still prospers, thanks to the shoppers who arrive each week on market days.

This is a model medieval market place in its wide, long configuration. There is little remarkable about the buildings, which are mainly of the 19th century.

It had once had a market and, until the 19th century, a celebrated cattle fair. The project of Harlow New Town was initiated in 1947, to draw off some of London's surplus population.

The 17th-century Old Market House at Winster was the first property to be acquired by the National Trust in the Peak District, in 1906.

Thorne was already a busy market town when the Stainforth & Keadby Canal opened in 1802.The canal provided a link between the navigable rivers Trent and Don, and with its opening Thorne went on to

The Leeds/Liverpool Canal and the railway both increased access to new markets across the Pennines and down to the south.

The Market Hall, built of red sandstone, dates from the mid 1600s and stands on the site of an earlier hall. The carving between the windows is of a bust of Charles II.

In the 1820s Ormskirk consisted of just four streets; market day was on a Thursday and there were annual fairs held on Aughton Common every Whit Monday and Tuesday and on 8 September.

Four heavy stone posts standing on a tall base decorated with quatrefoils carry timber beams and support the roof of the Market Cross.