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The war memorial and car park occupy land on which Coleford's Market House once stood. When the English Civil War began in 1642, Parliamentary troops were garrisoned in Coleford.

By 1818 the prison within the castle was already considered inadequate despite only having been built in 1779 and plans were drawn up for a new prison in the outer ward.

The name derives from bos, Latin for ox, and ton, Anglo-Saxon for township. A Roman villa was here from AD200.

The town enjoys a prosperity founded on more than its market and agricultural traditions, for engineering works were established here in Victorian times; Dereham grew into one of the busiest centres of

Batley's prosperity came from the process of breaking down and reweaving woollen cloth from waste rags. The raw material came from as far afield as Berlin and Rotterdam.

North of the old town, isolated farmhouses and cottages were engulfed in Victorian expansion.

Though built of quality stone, the Town Hall, designed by Reginald Edmunds in the 1930s, has little in the way of decoration; in that respect it is eclipsed by the ornate clock tower erected to the memory

Despite its name, Newhaven is anything but new, for it dates from Henry VIII's time when the River Ouse was canalised into its present course, and the town absorbed the old village of Meeching.

This is the original part of Cheltenham, pre-dating the grander areas that grew up when the town rose to prominence as a fashionable spa.

Looking eastward, this view shows one of the town's saddest architectural losses: Colebrooke Terrace, a shallow crescent of four pairs of Regency stucco villas.

Presented with a fine bronze circular fountain adorned with four winged lions and set centrally within the square, it is surprising that the garden's designer could resist the temptation to continue

This peaceful and idyllic rural scene, with the horse and cart behind a small girl pushing a pram outside the church of St John the Baptist, belies Crawley's mid 19th-century expansion into a railway town

The artists Stanhope Forbes and Walter Langley settled here in the 1880s to paint the harbour and its fishermen.

Dominating the seafront, this is believed to have been the first-ever free-standing, purpose-built clock tower, and was donated to the town by Mrs Ann Thwaites in 1837.

The splendid Norman tower of the Cathedral rises above the roofs of the county town, forming an important part of the city’s skyline.

What weddings and baptisms brought joy to the community from within these walls of All Saints' in olden times?

Pinstone Street was laid out in the mid-1870s as part of a major development of Sheffield town centre that saw wide well-planned streets replace a hotch-potch of alleyways, small work- shops, stables

The abbey is much shorter than its Norman predecessor, occupying only the space of its nave; the former choir and transepts were where the railinged green is in this view.

Said to be the highest town in Surrey, Haslemere is 500ft up in the hills close to the borders of both Sussex and Hampshire.

The town grew up astride what was the most important road in medieval England, that between London and Chester, at that time the principal port for Ireland.

As befitted a growing Victorian town, the spiritual needs of the new citizens were vigorously addressed.

The church of St Andrew was restored in 1885 and has a shingled broach spire.

The Co-op have modernised their premises from the original three shops (a baker's, a grocer's and a butcher's) to a modern supermarket.

This is the main street through the town. The steps used to lead into the post office, but it is now a restaurant and Tourist Information Office.