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The original part of the town of Alsager was to the north of here.

A horse-drawn cart carrying sacks makes its way up alongside Brackley's early 18th-century Town Hall, which was built for the Duke of Bridgewater and is attributed to Wren.

The curious onion-domed extension to the Town Hall, between it and the church has long been demolished, but it serves to point up the quality of Alfred Waterhouse's 1875 Town Hall.

Reaching Street, we are in 'company town', a town dominated by the shoe makers C and J Clark. It is therefore appropriate that we start at Clark's original factory, which fronts High Street.

The market town became a borough in 1607 and since then it has had five town halls, including the Guildhall, which is now a pub, the Tudor Rose.

This historic, red, sandstone market town suffered at the hands of the Scottish raiders down the centuries—its castle is now little more than a ruin. It nestles under the wooded slopes of the Beacon.

At the time of the Domesday Book there were already 21 houses in Christchurch, and 24 canons attached to the priory church.

Taunton was not always the peaceful town we know today. Industrial disputes and rural rebellions brought conflicts and riots to its streets.

Long a centre of iron and steel making, using the iron-rich local limestone, Corby already had a vast 1930s steelworks and a population of about 15,000 swamping the original small village when it was designated

This is probably the most beautiful of all Leicestershire churches, floating here above the trees and grassland, its magnificent late 15th-century tower dominating the market place and the south side of

The street is dominated by its distinctive town clock. It is hard to believe that this scene was almost lost some 30 years later in plans to 'reconstruct' the heart of the town.

On the right is that well-known hotel, the Royal County, created in the 19th century out of former town houses belonging to the Ratcliffe and Bowes families.

Sheffield was once described by Horace Walpole as 'one of the foulest towns of England in the most charming situation'.

The town has had a cricket team since 1844. This pavilion was opened in 1896. In June 2001, The Wiltshire Times described it as 'one of the town's hidden treasures'.

Annfield Plain, to the north-west of Durham, was one of several towns to attract industrial development as the number of active pits declined.

This small market town is on the River Chet; even these moored boats and yachts would have had difficulty in navigating this shallow tributary of the River Yare to get to the pleasant town centre.

Until then Boston Dock and some large factories had to produce their own electricity.

The town's name comes from the Anglo-Saxon word for frontier or border.

Opened in 1863, it closed in 1926 when a new station for the town was opened to the rear of the town. Note the wheeled stalls on the beach, and the row of chairs all in a line.

The Red Horse Hotel is where Washington Irving penned his paper on the town.

Fishing and agriculture played an important part in the economy of the area, but it was the opening up of the Western Highlands to tourism that gave the town the boost it so desperately needed.

The photograph looks from outside the present entrance to Hornsey Town Hall and towards the town centre soon after the completion of most of the buildings, and a decade before the influx of extensive but

This spacious town lies at the head of Bala Lake (Llyn Tegid), the largest natural lake in Wales, with a narrow-gauge railway running along its south-eastern shore.

Nevertheless, the Normans undoubtedly reorganised and reinvigorated Carlisle.