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The name reminds us that the Duke of Devonshire once owned the rights to the town's markets and fairs.

This perfect walking territory is within yards of the town.

The village street shown in this picture is now a busy part of the town.

Twenty-four men, accompanied by a band, march round the town, their faces blackened, carrying barrels of blazing tar above their heads.

Here we have a fine overview of the town centre against a backdrop of the Fairfield Horseshoe group of mountains.

It is the county town on the eastern side of the Island of Bute.

This was the main route through the town until the by-pass came into being.

To the north-east is the charming market town of Martock with its triangular market place.

This had already been the capital of the Trinovantes, the tribe whose territory covered Essex and east Suffolk.

All is peace and quiet in this scene, but things were livelier on 23 January 1570.

This passageway, which now runs from St Mary's Street down into the car park beside the meadows, formed one of a tight network of passages and closes which provided cramped tenement accommodation in this

With a plan based on its Roman predecessor, Noviomagus, this fine walled city is divided into quarters by North, South, East and West Streets, which all meet at the splendid Market Cross in the centre

With such an assortment of architectural styles in the town centre, there is always a building or detail to please the eye.

Its cabins were in keeping with the basic military hut- like look of so many institutions built during the First World War and afterwards.

The village nestles at the foot of Ingleborough, one of the famous Three Peaks, but it was the waterfalls walk that brought town dwellers to the area.

The war memorial with its bronze relief panels by Griffin was formally dedicated in September 1921 and unveiled by the Earl of Abingdon.

Batley's prosperity came from the process of breaking down and reweaving woollen cloth from waste rags.

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

Detail abounds in this more intimate shot of the row of shops immediately east from the Town Hall and the Greyhound Hotel.

Parallel to Stratford Road and to the south of it is one of the grid of streets that were laid out for the town from the 1840s, starting at the east and then expanding westward as land was released

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

In these last years before the M1 opened, Towcester was busy with traffic heading for Birmingham and the Midlands.

The town of Richmond grew up round the Norman castle, which was begun around the year 1071 by Alan Rufus, a son of the Duke of Brittany, and William the Conqueror's man in these parts.

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