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In the mid-19th century Scotsman John Laurie came to Romford with plans to create Laurie Town, the country's first garden city.

This illustrious and sublime town is on the east bank of the River Ouse, two miles from the Wash.

Newark enjoyed great prosperity in the 18th century through industrial growth and through its status as a coaching town on the Great North Road.

Dawley and Wellington were rivals to control Shropshire's new town. People here wanted to call it Dawley New Town.

This photograph is a reminder of the days when small market towns like Andover had more than one railway station.

This photograph shows how near the hills and open countryside are to the towns around here. Oswaldtwistle Moor, to the south of the town, is a love- ly unspoilt area of outstanding beauty.

Louth was a prosperous, compact market town serving a large area of the central Wolds.

Saffron Walden is named after the plant, saffron, which was used for dyeing woollen cloth here in the Middle Ages, when the town was prosperous and important in the wool trade.

We start in the Market Place of Grantham, a town of 30,000 whose medieval wealth was based on wool from the sheep grazing the Kesteven fields.

Main Road c1955 Once the market town for Northumberland's principal lead-mining area, Allendale Town also lays claim to be at the geographical centre of the UK.

The town lies just inside the Dartmoor National Park alongside the main Exeter to Plymouth road. Once stage coaches thun- dered through, forcing bystanders onto the narrow pavements.

There is no such thing as an ordinary street in this town. True, the shops may have similar uses, but the Victorians made the most of the spa town by building wide, airy thoroughfares.

Elland is a small town built around the industries of woollen mills, textiles, and quarries for coal, stone and clay.

A double-decker bus brings trade to the town's main shopping street. Batley was one of the pioneers of steam trams; they ran from 1874, and the depot in Bradford Road later became Wilson's Mill.

The town has been popular for centuries; as a spa town it was known as 'the Queen of watering places', and it has always been a healthy, bracing and fashionable resort.

The old town, quaint and picturesque, is situated on the low ground near the edge of the harbour, and as a matter of course, the streets are very narrow.

The town of Aldershot is largely Victorian; in those early days some of the streets had shops on one side and barracks on the other.

This wooded area to the north of the town was laid out and intersected with walks in the latter half of the 19th century and remain today a pleasant, if steep walk to the northern rim of the bowl

Our brief tour of Minehead starts up in Higher Town, the old town. Here the narrow Church Steps wind from Vicarage Road up steps to the church at the town's summit.

The town lies just inside the Dartmoor National Park alongside the main Exeter to Plymouth road. Once stage coaches thundered through, forcing bystanders onto the narrow pavements.

Castle Street runs north from the town centre. Two boys are using the drainage dyke to sail their toy yacht. The town was once a significant cloth-producing centre, renowned for its kersey.

Taken from the edge of Parsonage Woods to the north of the town, this view, almost unchanged today, looks past the cornfield towards the historic market town nestling in its Chiltern valley.

It has been said of Bebington that 'though the town centre is lacking in character, it is also open, green and wholesome', and that description still works well now.

The coming of firstly the Grand Union Canal and then the railways, led to the establishment of modern Linslade at its present location.