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Abingdon Abbey was founded in 675 AD, and the town grew up at its gates. However, nothing remains of its great monastic church.

Too big for modern clergymen, it is now a restaurant, and its old orchard contains the town`s leisure centre.

The market town of Stourport lies in the borough of Bewdley at the junction of the Staffordshire and Worcester Canal, the River Stour and the River Severn, which led to flourishing trade with other parts

Designed by Thomas Robinson and completed in 1887, the red-brick town hall deserves a more spacious and prominent setting than Market Street.

Standing in the upper Douglas Valley, Wigan was once a market town, but by the mid 19th century it was a major centre for Lancashire's coal industry.

Just along from the town hall is the old technical college building, an equally impressive structure. It was designed by H W Burchett and completed in 1937.

A scene that could have been copied in any town or village in the country in 1899. Notice particularly the pot plants on the porch of the nearby house, and also the horse droppings in the roadway.

Crawley's expansion as a planned New Town after 1947 took in hamlets right up to Ifield.

Nether Edge was one of the residential areas of Sheffield developed during the latter part of the Victorian era and offered a superior standard of housing to that nearer the town centre.

Wellington, about ten miles south-west of Taunton at the foot of the Blackdown Hills, is an attractive market town with its focus where South, Fore and High Streets meet.

Nether Edge was one of the residential areas of Sheffield developed during the latter part of the Victorian era and offered a superior standard of housing to that nearer the town centre.

Wisbech's five mile-long canal once connected the villages of Outwell and Upwell with the River Nene at Wisbech. It has since been filled in and closed down. Wisbech is the capital of the Fens.

They founded their town of Corinium by the River Churn, in an area occupied by a native tribe called Dobunni.

Also taken from the Town Hall, this photograph shows that the main street was less congested than it is today.

A hundred years ago, Huddersfield was a collection of villages - now Milnsbridge is on the outskirts.The town is packed with mills and machinery works.

In the days before Crawley acquired 'New Town' status, it was the town's business centre, eventually changing its name to Post Office Road - home, not surprisingly, of the local post office.

Claimed to be the highest market town in England, Alston commands sweeping views of the North Pennines and the South Tyne Valley.

The town's arcaded Market House of 1870 stands in the Square. The local dark building stone has given Dolgellau much of its character.

Horsham was described as a borough in the early 13th century, and it had become one of the chief towns in the county by the 17th and 18th centuries.

Situated on the north-western edge of the New Forest, Fordingbridge was once famous for the manufacture of canvas and sail cloth.

Under the Town Hall once stood an old 18th-century fire engine with wooden wheels, and also the old stocks.

This was Winchelsea's north east gate and lay by the banks of the River Brede (hence the name). It dates from the early fourteenth century.

With increases in both population and numbers of visitors to the town, provision had to be made for their shopping requirements.

In 1799 Edward Ind bought the Star Inn which had a reputation for brewing fine ale. He developed a prosperous brewing business and in 1845 Octavius and Edward Coope joined the firm.