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Midway between Rushden and Thrapston lies the small town of Raunds. In this photograph you can just pick out the spire of the church, soaring 183 feet above the High Street.

A green lung in the centre of the town, the park was given to Whitby by Alderman Pannett.

When Leland visited Weobley in 1540 he described it as 'a market-town where there is a goodly castle, but somewhat in decay'.

Hotels and yacht chandlers line the seashore at Cowes.

The town centre was extended eastwards in the 1980s, and Southernhay was diverted. This stretch of the road survives as a walkway in the precinct.

He died shortly after it was finished and William Rock bought it in 1888 to give to the town. It was the library for years, and today it is home to the North Devon Museum.

Where better to begin an exploration of Taunton town than in Fore Street, very much the centre of this ancient Borough.

Chelmsford had always been primarily a market-town. As

We are looking north down the High Street towards its division into East and West streets.

Here we see a conversation piece in the town centre, a century and a quarter after the proprietor of the Royal Goat changed the village's name and erected Gelert's Grave nearby.

Market Bosworth was granted the privilege of a Wednesday market in 1285, and the small town was one of 29 in the country to combine this with an annual fair.

One reason for Bournemouth’s success as a holiday resort has been that the shops are available if the weather is too wet and windy for the beach.

A group of turn-of-the-century children overlooking the town of Haverfordwest.

This seat of self-improvement was opened to the town's working people in 1882. It contained a reading room and a well-stocked library of over 3,000 books.

This panoramic view of the church and school from flower-bedecked meadowland sums up the qualities of this self-contained town.

A classic view of a market town.

Uppingham is a particularly charming town with an attractive series of 17th- and 18th-century buildings.

It was once a busy little port exporting salt (from which the town takes its name) and wool, but the estuary became silted up in the 15th century.

Church Street is busy with shoppers and shopkeepers. Peeping above the town's rooftops is the tower of St Michael the Archangel, perhaps the finest of Hampshire's Perpendicular parish churches.

Havant is a busy little town overlooking Langstone Harbour; its church recalls the time of Roman and Norman invaders.

This photograph looks back at the same houses as those shown in 41386 and 41387.The well-laid out public gardens give a tropical air to the scene.The Lees Hotel was one of the many hotels to be found

Just in front of the Town Hall (1856) is the war memorial remembering the ten men who died in the First World War, and the ten who perished in the Second.

The fountain in the centre of Wigton's Square or Market Place has a pyramidal cross-topped spire, and depicted on its four sides are the four Acts of Mercy.

Harlow swimming pool is in the Town Park. The site is quite near the part of the River Stort that had been used for swimming lessons and galas by local schools for at least one hundred years.