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Now totally pedestrianised with trees planted to give some shade, the Square is dominated by the 16th- century market hall (left) and the statue of Robert Clive, Clive of India.

Wellington has always been a prosperous small market town. It sits beside the old Roman road of Watling Street, and later benefited from toll-roads and railways.

Kendal was granted the right to hold a market as early as 1189, when it was also made a barony.

It may have expanded somewhat over the years, but it still remains a compact market town. The Market Place is still the focal point of Oundle.

The pleasing Market Square, pictured here, held its last cattle market in 1959, a few years after this picture was taken. The town may have been the birthplace of Anne Boleyn in about 1504.

The L-shaped Quadrant Arcade, stretching between South Street and the Market Place, was formally opened on 23 September 1935.

When the harbour closed to shipping, Steyning concentrated its efforts on becoming a market town, holding a market twice a week and a fair twice a year.

In the market place is the Guildhall, rebuilt in 1900.

Covent Garden Market was the main fruit and vegetable market for the area north of the Thames until 1974.

Huge sheep markets were held in the market place, and the farmers and buyers refreshed themselves in the Woolpack, a convenient public house across the road from the castle.

The pedestrians walking towards the camera are heading for the High Street and, no doubt, the market. E

The Buttercross is to be found in the centre of the village market place. The railings have gone, as have the brick wall and the trees behind it.

There had been a Monday market here since 1154, but it ceased in the Victorian period. The Manor House (centre left) with its 19th-century brick façade is central to the market place.

The fine market cross at the entrance to the Market Place has an elaborate medieval polygonal centre, with three storeys of arched niches; the crocketed pinnacle emerges from a plainer arched

The Parade was Minehead's market place. The Market Hall with its clock tower is on the right.

The town was a centre for brewing, malting, tanning and mining as well as staging Monday, Thursday and Saturday markets.

Chagford's striking octagonal Market House was built in 1862. An earlier Market House collapsed in 1618, killing ten people who were attending the Stannary Court.

A market is held here twice a week, and a farmers market once a month. The scene today would be very similar to that captured in the photograph, with crowds of people hunting for a good bargain.

On market days hair cutting was performed at the side of the Market Place just outside the White Horse Inn (the white building, centre right).

'Chipping' means 'market' in Old English, and it was as a market centre for the woollen industry that Chipping Campden rose to affluence.

The Market House was built of granite in 1839-40 for the sale of meat, poultry and butter, and the four carved ox heads above the pillars (left) are a notable feature of the street frontage.

On the left is the Hop Market, resplendent in red terracotta. Worcester's first hop market was established in 1731 on this site and became the largest in the country.

The large Market Place, with many fine Georgian buildings, is the central feature of Devizes. Benjamin Wyatt's 1814 Market Cross is a delight.

The Cotswold stone tower of St Andrews Church stands fittingly adjacent to the Market Cross, the scene of Castle Combe's once famous sheep market.