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Leland wrote that Bala had 'a little poore market' in the 16th century. This vast Victorian hotel, with its half-timbered detailing, is a feature of the High Street.

On the road to Market Harborough, Desborough is a small town with various ironstone cottages and inns.

Another view of the Market Cross, this time looking north, shows its knobbly crockets to their best advantage. The cross at the top of the shaft was lost many years before.

Thrapston is a small medieval market town engulfed in 19th- and 20th-century housing and factories.

From the Hind Hotel we walk down Market Street and turn right down Midland Road. All the buildings on the left have been replaced by the modern Swansgate shopping centre.

The settlement was probably established in Saxon times, though it did not become an important trading centre until the Abbot of Buckfast established a market here in 1219.

The most famous Shambles is in York but many towns had their shambles or meat market at one time.

the relatively small shop sizes the larger retail chains, such as Boots and Burtons, have moved to bigger and better premises in the new Horsefair development - a successful retail location between the Market

It had a weekly market from 1253 until it was closed in 1982. The last bare-fisted boxing match was held in Wadhurst in 1863. The street is now very busy with traffic and people.

Leland wrote that Bala had 'a little poore market' in the 16th century. This vast Victorian hotel, with its half-timbered detail, is a feature of the High Street.

The thatched Chantry House, on the right, survived the devastating fire of 1795, which destroyed many of the older buildings in this once prosperous mediaeval market town.

The High Street runs along the east side of the market place.

It was here and on the Market Place that local people met to protest about unemployment and hardship in the years following the defeat of Napoleon.

Building commenced on the site of the former red brick market in 1891 to the designs of the local architects Joseph and John Leeming.

This stylish Burton's tailoring shop was built in 1932; it replaced many small shops along Old Market and Princess Street. Originally, the upper floors contained a billiard hall and a skating rink.

This was the original site of the huge cattle market. In the 19th century the street was lined by saddlers, but these premises gradually closed when horses gave way to the horsepower of cars.

The Theatre Royal on the left was built in 1865 by William and John Lambert, and designed to dominate the view up Market Street.

A 'tidy' view of Market Square complete with flower beds, mown grass and full benches just before opening time. Many of the buildings surrounding the Square show evidence of ancient origins.

Being originally a market place and meetings venue, the focal point of the Corn Exchange was often used to highlight social campaigns such as the National Savings promotion shown here.

The market entrance has yet to be demolished, and Marks and Spencers has not yet replaced the buildings to its left.

Askrigg was already prosperous when the Domesday book was compiled, and continued as the commercial and industrial centre of Upper Wensleydale until 1699, when Hawes was granted a market charter.

In the High Street, also known as Market Street in 1622, the chemist's (on the left) occupies part of a 16th-century building of the continuous jetty type.

Designed by Thomas Robinson and completed in 1887, the red-brick town hall deserves a more spacious and prominent setting than Market Street.

By the 18th century, Ormskirk was already an important agricultural and market town, but with the arrival of the railway in 1849 it rapidly developed as an attractive residential area for Liverpool's prosperous