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A lone vehicle heads towards Warrington town centre down the new Wilderspool Bridge.

The main waterway we see here is the Weaver Navigation, built so that the salt boats which floated down the River Weaver from Northwich and Nantwich could get back into those Cheshire towns without fighting

This is a central and popular spot for shoppers and office workers to sit and relax in the well-laid-out formal gardens.

Along the rivers and the shoreline, there are still miles of sparsely-inhabited wilderness. Lots of Essex people can tell tales about getting lost on the marshes.

family, the Booths of Dunham Massey and the Traffords of Trafford Park.

Also scheduled for redevelopment was the remaining old part of the town between Church Street and the river, which had suffered bomb damage in the war.

In 1996 the two schools came together with the name of Berkhamsted Collegiate School, and Dr Priscilla Chadwick was appointed as first principal.

Here we are reminded that before the building of the bus station in Merrywalks, buses waited at several locations in the town.

Here we have a close-up view of the Overhead Railway, which ran from north to south in the city and yet did not hold up traffic going down to the Pier Head.

Our tour of the towns and villages near Lincoln starts in Gainsborough, a town of the ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Lindsey that ruled what is now north Lincolnshire.

Bridgnorth is really two towns, High Town at the top of a steep hill and Low Town at the bottom.

Up to 1974, Eccles was a town in its own right. It received its Charter of Incorporation in 1891, and then, of course, needed its own Town Hall.

1150, cannot compare with that of Oakham Castle of c1180, some twenty miles east of the city, as an example of Norman architecture; but as part of the extensive remains of Leicester Castle and

Sellargarth was a small farming hamlet close to the abbey, and the population were all tenants of the abbey.

The rebels swept on to burn more towns before their defeat, and Colchester was rebuilt and walled in stone.

Our tour of the towns and villages near Lincoln starts in Gainsborough, a town of the ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Lindsey that ruled what is now north Lincolnshire.

WALKING AROUND Walsall town centre today there is little to show visitors what the town looked like in its early years.

Heading south-west towards Dorset we reach Crewkerne, another medieval market town that later specialised in sail- making for the Royal Navy until steam supplanted sail.

Moving south from Thrapston we reach Raunds, another small Northamptonshire market town transformed into a Victorian boot and shoe manufacturing town.

The clean forceful lines of the neo- classical new town hall were in marked contrast to its rather sedate and friendly looking predecessor, built by the Luton architects John Williams & Sons

The Moot Hall has now been renovated, and looks worthy of its status as the Town Hall. This fine Georgian town house became the Moot Hall and residence of the Town Council around 1800.

Birkenhead, the largest town on the Wirral, was the dream of one man, John Laird.

Chertsey was once the town at the gates of one of the most powerful abbeys in England.

Yet in the last century Basildon has experienced more upheaval and momentous change than most other towns in the land.