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Winchcombe (or Winchcomb as it was spelt until the Victorians added the final 'e' for no good reason), like many of its Cotswold neighbours, was a wool town.

Standing just beyond Hospital Street, and therefore originally outside the town, this building also survived the fire.

The town is renowned for the bravery of its lifeboat crew who responded to an urgent signal of distress in 1901.

In the centre is the old cross: the blur to the left is a pony and trap moving too quickly for the photographer's camera. The market town of Bedale is just a few miles to the north-east of Masham.

There are plenty of horse-drawn conveyances, while some of the awnings and cast-iron canopies that are such a picturesque feature of the town today are visible on the right.

Northleach is a delightful town, easily missed with the construction of its recent bypass.

For a start, two of the buildings in the background are no longer imposing town houses; one is now the offices of the Phoenix Assurance Co, and the other, Warwick house and former home of brewer Samuel

The façade of the Old Town Hall is here more evident, and the pub on the right remembers Lancaster's associations with John o'Gaunt.

This view looks towards the town from the junction of Anstey Road, Normandy Street and Paper Mill Lane.

The freehold of the Butts was presented to the town by the Lord of the Manor is 1981.

Barrow Corporation purchased Biggar Bank on Walney in 1881 to serve as a public recreation ground for the people of the expanding town of Barrow.

The cross stands in front of Dalton Castle at the top of the town.

His story 'The Fox' was first published in 1923 and is set at Bailey Farm, which Lawrence based on Grimsbury Farm just outside the village.

Set at the mouth of the River Conway, or Conwy, this mediaeval walled town with its famous castle, one of Edward I's 'iron ring' around Wales, is still remarkably self-contained.

This vaulted structure, roughly 80ft by 11ft, has two parallel stone vaults and massive walls that formed the platform for the temple, which was the centrepiece of the colonia for retired legionary

On the right is a bathing machine, which would be trundled down into the shallows by the patient horse so that lady bathers could dip their toes with no fear of prying eyes.

Strong's became one of the main employers in the town for about a hundred years, but the need for modernisation caused brewing to cease in 1981; the operation, by that time part of Whitbread Wessex

The sign in front of the eight-bed Cottage Hospital (left) records that it was opened in 1897 as part of the town's commemoration of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee.

Bell Street, part of the original town of Sawbridgeworth, runs from London road eastwards towards the church and the school.

Amesbury dates back to at least 973; it is the nearest town to Stonehenge, and has a population of about 6,000. In 980, Amesbury Abbey was founded for Benedictine nuns.

This broad road leading into the heart of the town is bounded by 17th- and 18th-century buildings.

St John's Church, by Benjamin Ferrey, was completed in 1853 as the centrepiece of Angell Town. It has a fine Perpendicular-style tower with chequer-work battlements and elegant corner pinnacles.

A positive cats-cradle of wires weaves above the roadway, with telephone cables, suspended street lighting and the power cables for the silent-running electric trolley buses contesting the airspace.

Taken from Coronation Park, this view looks north, away from the town centre.