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Two ancient churches occupy sites in the Old Town: St Mary's in nearby Lowgate, and the Church of the Holy Trinity, shown here with its attendant market stalls.

In this photograph we head north-east out of Market Square along Cambridge Street, once known as Bakers Lane, a road that haas seen much change since the 1950s.

A bustling market day. On the right are the Saracen's Head and the Clinton Arms Hotel, which once boasted stabling facilities for no less than ninety horses.

William the Conqueror gave the Abbey a market which was held in front of the Abbey's gates, although the present magnificent Gatehouse was built for Abbot Alan of Ketling in 1338 to replace the Norman

Here we see the cobbled Market Square at a time when early charabancs, like that on the left of the photograph, still vied with horses and carts – one is clattering by in the centre background under the

A little north of the attractive village of Naseby, on the Market Harborough road, this 40 ft high stone obelisk commemorates the Battle of Naseby at which the New Model Army routed the Royalists in 1645

It continued in this capacity until 1969, when it became a training centre for British Leyland, and it was later used as a marketing institute and conference centre by the Rover Group.

The attractively crowded buildings in the centre of Hawkshead village are well displayed by this early photograph, with the former Market Hall on the left.

We are looking east from the Market Square; the battlements of the church can be seen to the left of Church House (extreme left).

These are classic examples of market place infill, where traders' stalls become permanent buildings.

This busy scene illustrates how Cardigan became an important market town.

We can just see the entrance to Caroline Street's first market half way up the street on the right.

The large open Market Square hints at the importance of this Oxfordshire town as a trading place for the surrounding population in the past.

We start in the Market Place of Grantham, a town of 30,000 whose medieval wealth was based on wool from the sheep grazing the Kesteven fields.

There was a weekly market here, granted to the abbey by King John in 1199: it had fallen out of use by the 16th century.

In 1961 in nearby Market Place, Ringwood Electrical sold the new vapour-controlled Russell Hobbs kettle for £6 1s.

In 1955 the land to the left of the road was part of Chandler's market garden.

At the south end of the High Street the road widens to a pleasant green, formerly a market place.

It is an important market centre.

Although technically part of West Yorkshire, the market town of Ilkley, standing at the entrance to Wharfedale, is best-known as the gateway to the Dales.

These models had greater ground clearance than vehicles manufactured for the domestic market. In 1913 Standard offered a four-wheel drive.

Unlike many other Welsh towns, whose growth was based on coal or iron and steel, Carmarthen had long been a market town and the centre for an age-old agricultural tradition.

By the time the castle was finished in around 1200, Richmond had grown in size; a market has been held here since 1155.

Around the Market Place at this time were a large number of pubs used by the town's seafarers (South Shields had the largest number of seamen as a proportion of its population than anywhere else in Britain