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Its designers considered that this new access to Torquay would popularise this hitherto quiet end of town.

This popular seaside town was built around a mill and an old village.

This old coaching town on the London to Brighton road had the misfortune to be designated a New Town in 1947.

Reference has already been made to the rapid expansion of Sheffield's east end - Brightside, Attercliffe and Darnall - to accommodate the tens of thousands of new workers in the heavy steel industry

At the Pavement end of the street stood the town pillory - anyone found guilty of treason was beheaded here.

The Crown Hotel, situated at the west end of Blandford's market place, was refaced in its original Georgian style in 1938.

At the southern end of the Buttertubs Pass, Hardrow is just a mile outside the market town of Hawes.

As well as being a market town, Ormskirk has a long association with the Earls of Derby who lived at Knowsley Hall.

Linthorpe Road was at one time the town's only road south.

When this photograph was taken from the end of the quay, the bridge linking Poole town and Hamworthy was only four years old.

Pontefract was a major coaching town, and many inns were established for this trade.

Thomas Stonor built the Town Hall in 1664 to commemorate the restoration of the monarchy at the end of the Civil War.

Beyond the far end of Fargate was Balm Green, to the east of the present City Hall, which contained Barker's Pool, a source of fresh water for the town's residents to supplement the supply from

The passenger ferry from the Essex port of Tilbury approaches the Town Pier at the end of its journey across the Thames.

Taking the form of a Celtic cross, it remembered the dead of the town during the First World War, which had ended just a year before.

At the lower end of the market square, leading down to the Swale Falls, is Millgate - little changed today.

This 15th-century building was either an early Moot (Town) Hall or a Guildhall.

East from Claygate and across the Hogsmill river valley, the route reaches Ewell, now by-passed by the A24 London to Worthing road.

Although it only has a small population, Clun is always referred to as a town rather than a village.

This eastern end of the Isle of Wight enjoys a milder climate than the busy towns on the north coast, and health- conscious early visitors came for the quality of the air.

By the end of the 17th century it had been rapidly developed by the building of shops, taverns, hotels and houses as the town flourished as a fashionable spa resort.

The route leaves Newark and heads six miles west to the small and delightful town of Southwell, whose minster church had been founded by the Archbishop of York before AD956.

A bustling town, Stroud still attracts shoppers from far afield, as it did when this photograph was taken at the end of the Edwardian era.

Taken from Overton Hill, this view shows the town with the Mersey estuary in the distance beyond the sand dunes.