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Like Macclesfield and many other small towns around, Wilmslow was to develop enormously in the 18th century with the introduction of industries linked to local silk and cotton mills.

Though perilously close to being engulfed by Solihull, Knowle manages to hang on to its own distinct character.

Wells was a port long before it became a tourist town, as the functional harbour and large warehouses make clear.

Westgate, dating back to the 14th century, provides access to the south-west corner of the old walled town.

Reaching Spalding we are in the heart of the bulb-growing country; the surrounding countryside is a glorious carpet of daffodils, tulips and other flowers at different times of the year.

The Bronte industry, founded in this pretty, cobble-streeted West Yorkshire town after the famous literary family made the Parsonage their home in 1820, was already well under way, if this 1950s photograph

The stall holders and the ice cream man must be wondering where the customers are.

Bathpool is now very much a suburb of Taunton, with the spread of the Somerset town on one side and the M5 motorway on the other.

Chagford is a tiny market town on the eastern slopes of Dartmoor, close to the upper reaches of the river Teign.

At the top of Pier Hill is Royal Terrace, so named because it was here that the Princesses Caroline and Charlotte stayed when visiting the town early in the 19th century.

By-laws forbade the beating of carpets and driving of cattle through the gardens.

When in 1853 the population of Tenby had reached 3000, it was decided that a new cemetery and chapel should be constructed on the outskirts of the town on the Lower Windmill Field.

A retired steelman looks across the industrial landscape of Stocksbridge, the steel-making town in the valley of the River Don between Sheffield and Penistone, on the edge of the Pennine moors.

It looks quiet here now, but once the market at Leominster was so successful that the cities of Hereford and Worcester were jealous of its success.

Sutton has one great asset which makes it a cut above other Birmingham suburbs - Sutton Park, which was given to the town by Henry VIII at the behest of local benefactor Bishop John Vesey.

One of Willenhall's more eccentric buildings, this mock-Tudor, mock- Gothic, former toll house became a restaurant in 1929 and has also been known as the Round House, though it is not really

In Roman times Cirencester, Corinium Dubunnorum, was the second most important town in Britain after London, standing near the Roman roads of Akeman Street, the Fosse Way, Ermine Street and the older Icknield

The river forms the parish boundary with Thrapston, now a small industrial town on the east bank.

It was the home town of General Hector MacDonald (1853-1903), who enlisted in the 92nd Highlanders at the age of 17.

Many found it a pleasant town to live in, not too far from London.

Much of the prosperity of the town derived from the nearby Greenfield Valley.

This was demolished in 1871 and replaced by this house, which was built for Edmund Stedman, the Town Clerk The building became the Borough Offices from c1918 until 1974.

It looks quiet here now, but once the market at Leominster was so successful that the cities of Hereford and Worcester were jealous of its success.

The iron horse trough was erected in 1919 as a memorial to Lieutenant Howard H Dainton and friends of the 4th Gloucesters, who died in the Great War.