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A market town rather than a village, Watton has a constant stream of traffic through its bustling centre.

The Market House was built in 1655; it is a substantial building supported on fat stone columns. Originally it would have been more striking, but the third storey was removed in 1817.

The Market Hall, built of red sandstone, dates from the mid 1600s and stands on the site of an earlier hall. The carving between the windows is of a bust of Charles II.

Since the 12th century, markets have been held on this cobbled square - it covers over 3 acres. It is surrounded by many important houses, some owned by the most wealthy merchants and families.

Friesian cows are grazing; perhaps they belong to Mr E Ball, who owned property to the right in the Market Place. Beyond the cows, the hill is the site of the original castle motte.

Various striking Georgian buildings overlook the Market Place, and there are many hotels and inns hereabouts, including the Bear Hotel, on the right of the picture, which dates back to the 13th century

Built in the 1750s, Martock's Market House originally held a row of shambles or butchers' shops.

They supplied the town's numerous markets until the railways opened up more distant ones.

Indeed, many of the Georgian and 19th-century facades in the High Street, which winds uphill towards the market place, conceal medieval and later timber-framed buildings.

This small Wiltshire market town has a long, roughly north-south High Street, seen here looking north from the junction with Bath Road.

The cinema closed in 1969 (the year that also saw the closure of Pitsea's original market—another fondly-remembered institution).

Indeed, some of the early 'villas' built at Southport were in fact little more than up-market thatched residences.

However, if you did go up, you would see that the Market Place is still covered by stalls.

Sidmouth began as a small fishing town with a bustling local market, but even these activities had begun to decline by the time the first visitors arrived in the late 18th century.

Long the centre of the town's social and political life, the Market Square contained many inns, including the George and Dragon, the Woodman, the Red Lion and the Brown Cow.

This view looks north up Portobello market in Notting Hill's Portobello Road. To the left is Elgin Crescent, and on the right is Colville Terrace.

The broad expanse of what had been Ashford's original market place and a rendezvous for Kent's sheep and cattle farmers had, by the mid 1950s, been bisected by a central traffic reservation and new road

Here we see the large triangular market place, with the parish church beyond.

Along here were the Shire Hall, the Victoria Institute, the Hop Market, St Nicholas Church, Foregate Station, hotels, shops, and the main post office.

The cinema closed in 1969 (the year that also saw the closure of Pitsea's original market—another fondly-remembered institution).

Honiton is the largest settlement on the River Otter; this ancient market town stretches along a mile of Roman road.

The entrance to its left was the way to the Market, where they held sales of livestock (at noon), poultry (at 12.30pm) and deadstock and produce (at 1.30pm).

Later on, in 1728, when returning from the market at Hertford, Thomas Adams was violently murdered in the High Street.

Chard High Street's pavements were built wide to hold market stalls. The clock tower on the left was added to the Town Hall in 1834.