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Egremont was granted a market charter as early as 1267, and is famous for its Crab Apple Fair held every September, which includes the World Gurning (face-pulling) Championships.

The stocks and pillory in Market Square remind us of a time when justice was swift and direct.

Its layout is extremely elongated, with the castle and market area at one end and the church (with presumably the original settlement site) up on the hill on the other side of the valley.

The imposing Red Lion Hotel overlooks a busy market scene. Kendall, the well-known store stocking umbrellas and rainwear, can be seen on the right.

Kirkby was granted a market charter by Edward I in 1307. The Perpendicular tower of the parish church of St Andrew can be seen in the background.

The Guildhall was built in 1574 as a market hall; it was rebuilt in 1814, except for the splendid timber arches on which it rests, and which serve as shelter for the stall-holders and their customers.

This is the main shopping street between the Market Place and New Bridge. On the right is the Black Bull Hotel, noted for its two-storey bow window which projects into the street.

The head office of the Wilts and Dorset Bank, built in 1869, is now Lloyds Bank, and is just one of a row of large, impressive buildings along the northern side of the Market Square.

A busy weekly market stood by the crossing.

Reputedly England's most haunted village, and a market town in the time of Henry III, Prestbury is now a residential suburb of Cheltenham.

King Street is the location of the former market place, which was built over many years ago. Also along here is the timber-framed Saracen's Head.

This may account for its older alternative name of Market-Jew. The town was also renowned in Victorian times for its cultivation of a particularly delicious species of turnip.

Londoners tended market gardens close by which are now smothered by the buildings of Kensington. In the 18th century it was considered foolhardy to venture here after dark.

Since the 13th century there has been a market here, and the buildings in the town centre reflect a gentle change rather than a dramatic fluctuation of fortune at any one time.

The Market Square has a tradition going back to the early Middle Ages, although the present Square replaces houses destroyed by a fire in 1849.

Great Bardfield once had market rights, but it is now a quiet village. The fountain in Brook Street (left) was installed in 1861 by Henry Smith of Bardfield Hall.

Generally known as 'The Market House', the building is 18th-century in origin and formed a covered area wherein farmers' wives and younger members of their families could display dairy products and similar

Running from the Market Place to the station and level crossing at the bottom of the hill, Berry Lane leads to today's town centre.

The London and Provincial Bank on the corner of Market Street (left) opened in 1898, and is still and impressive structure. Work on surfacing the road with tarmac is still under way.

The market cross, similar to the one at Bungay, housed the stocks until the 19th century.

Sandwiched between St Nicholas Street and the old market place at Cross Cheaping, Bishop Street was one of Coventry’s main shopping thoroughfares.

In 1586 Camden said that Weobley had 'more fair cellars than most market towns of its bigness in England'.

A guidebook in 1795 described Weobley as having 'a few small streets meanly constructed, without either market or traffic'.

Set in the midst of particularly fertile part of the county, Ottery had a market for centuries.