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Leyburn developed into a market town thanks to a charter granted by Charles I, but unlike Hawes and Askrigg, it never became industrialised.

The local textile industry blossomed, and people moved into the village from the surrounding areas to work in the new mills.

Wareham St Martin's (right), standing on King Alfred's Town Walls, is Dorset's earliest complete church.

The tall building on the right was refronted about 1920 and Henry Chilton was replaced by the 1930s Midland Bank, stone faced and Moderne, now the HSBc bank.

Bourne, at the junction where two Roman roads met, had a Roman station to guard the Car Dyke, the great Roman dyke 56 miles long and still surviving for long stretches.

In 739, the Mercian king Offa founded a Benedictine house for men and women, which he endowed with huge tracts of Hertfordshire countryside together with their rents and tithes.

Business interests in the town realised they had to do something, and a canal was authorised by an Act of Parliament in 1793.

The nave of St Mary's acted as the parish church for the town, while the large chancel was used by a secular College of Canons, responsible to the King, whose duty was to pray for members of the

Along with Deal and Sandown, Walmer was one of the 'Three Castles which keep the Downs'.

In contrast with the western side of the Wirral Peninsula, the towns and villages of the east have become one continuous conurbation because of their proximity to the River Mersey and Liverpool.

The Town Hall tower (centre right), designed by T M Lockwood and E A Landsdowne, was opened in 1885.

The north side of the Market Place was the drinking heart of Wisbech, whose taste for alcohol saw one hundred inns, taverns and pubs recorded around the town.

This ancient town crowns the steep hill above the valley of the River Kensey.

It was at Stirling that both James II and James V were born and where Mary, Queen of Scots and James VI both lived for a number of years.

The view towards the Royal Hotel and Lloyds Bank is almost unchanged.

The building on the right, now demolished, stood on the corner of what is now Vicarage Road, and was the first county library in the town.

A bustling view along South Street, which was built in 1850 and originally called New Road.

The road is widened a little and the street furniture changed.

It is probable that much of the stone from the abbey was used to construct and repair buildings in the town.

Set in the valley of the River Aire, Bingley was once the classical picture of a 19th-century worsted-weaving and textile town, with its great mills and tall smokestacks.

Set in the valley of the River Aire, Bingley was once the classical picture of a 19th-century worsted-weaving and textile town, with its great mills and tall smokestacks.

Deerhurst adorns the Vale of Gloucester in a lovely setting between the towns of Tewkesbury and Cheltenham.

The original Tudor town plan was based on a series of both parallel and converging streets, but erosion during the 17th and 18th centuries resulted in many houses being lost to the sea.

This town, which stands above the Colne in the north of the county about five miles from Braintree, was once famous for its silk and crepe.This wonderful post-war view looks up the High Street, with