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Many of Slough's town centre buildings are relatively new, dating from the post- and pre-war periods.

The narrow streets of Cowes are typical of many southern English coastal towns, designed for use rather than orna- ment.

The town also acquired that other symbol of Georgian respectability and status: Assembly Rooms, in Bell Street.

The coach road leaves the town centre over the River Welland, from where this view was taken. Many Georgian houses throughout the town remain, and its buildings are always worth a second look.

Sherborne is famous for its public schools, and on most days in term time pupils can be seen threading their way around the old town.

In Saxon times this old town was known as Twyneham, meaning 'the town between the streams' - in this case the Avon and the Stour, whose waters empty into Christchurch Harbour.

The red-brick town hall (centre left) was erected in 1728 in the market place on the site of an ancient chapel of St Thomas à Becket.

Reigate town is considerably more attractive than Redhill, with which it is now merged by development.

Epsom is famous for two things: Epsom Salts, and the two great classic flat races run on the Downs south of the town, the Derby and the Oaks, both inaugurated in the late 18th century.

Sutton Park was one of the largest in Warwickshire, over 2,000 acres of woodlands and lakes.The park made the town something of a tourist attraction.

For centuries the town was little more than a small agricultural hamlet. Then the Alsager family started to build houses and a church here in the 18th and 19th centuries.

At the close of the 19th century, Alton bore the stamp of an old country market town, with its bustling streets and striking shop fronts. Opposite the King's Head is the town's market square.

There is a substantial amount of Victorian development seen in this view of the town from the west, looking across Brooklands Park and the new cemetery on Queens Road with its chapel.

All Saints' Church contains a memorial to the Reverend Lyte, author of 'Abide With Me' and 'Praise My Soul, the King of Heaven'.

This is the only one of the four town gates that survived. Dating from 1329 or 1381, it had a portcullis and a drawbridge, and is a most imposing entrance to the town.

Built south of the town, the new docks were 825 feet long by 450 feet wide and are still busy.

A view of one of the three main streets in the little town, the others being English Street and Scottish Street.

This Snowdonian village on the Holyhead Road (A5) lies at the mouth of the pass of Nant Ffrancon, beneath the famous Penrhyn slate quarries, once the largest in the world and still producing slate today

Chesham has been a market town since 1257 when Hugh, Earl of Oxford, obtained from King Henry III a grant of a weekly market and annual three-day fair.

In this town we will find a fascinating mixture of alleyways, courtyards and shambles. Many of the houses date from the 17th century.

The town's connection with Owain Glyndwr gives it a unique place in Welsh history, as he was the last Prince of Wales to be crowned with the title.

With New Town status and under the aegis of the Development Corporation, Bracknell began to expand rapidly.

The older anchorages of Sutton Harbour and Stonehouse, with the greater expanse of the Hamoaze and Plymouth Sound beyond, created a perfect naval base long before the new town of Devonport was founded.

It now forms a centrepiece to this busy market town, familiar to the many local people who come to shop each week from dozens of surrounding towns and villages.