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The original market place, as laid out in the Bury St Edmunds' grid pattern devised by Abbot Baldwin in the 11th century, was a good deal larger than it was by the time this photograph was taken.

In 1882 England played Australia in a cricket match; they lost so disastrously that they then ceremoniously burned the bails used during the match.

Ashworth is 3 miles from Rochdale and Bury and 1 mile from Heywood centre.

The gardens commemorate John Kay, born in Bury in 1704 and inventor of the flying shuttle.

It is a town full of history - the founder of Yale University in the US (Elihu Yale), came from the Wrexham area, and is buried at St Giles's church.

Mary Shelley, the author of 'Frankenstein', is buried in the churchyard with the heart of her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Long buried by the shifting dunes of Penhale Sands, the ruin of an early Christian oratory was discovered in the 19th century.

More recently, George Woodall (1850-1925) was buried at St Mary's.

Buried in its churchyard are the two ironmaster founders of Middlesbrough's original wealth - Henry Bolckow and his business partner John Vaughan.

The River Sid starts its short journey to the sea amidst the high land at Broad Down and Farway; here the Bronze Age inhabitants of East Devon buried their dead.

Members of the Cholmondeley family are buried in St Oswald's, Malpas.

Jerome Klapka Jerome, author of Three Men in a Boat, is buried in Ewelme churchyard.

It was in Tong that he buried Little Nell in his book 'The Old Curiosity Shop', and so immediately gave rise to a thriving local tourist industry for visitors to see her grave.

Henry Hill Hickman was born here and is buried in the church.

The Village c1955 Buried in the churchyard lies the poet and intellectual rebel Algernon Charles Swinburne, who died in 1909.

The Parker family of Browsholme, who have been connected with the village since the 16th century, are buried at Waddington.

Jerusalem, soldier, author and philanthropist, he was also a suspected bigamist, who settled in the Isle of Man in order to put a few miles and a little water between himself and his creditors, and to bury

Many of those lost are buried under the present Esplanade.

The coffin was re-sealed and buried.

He also died and was buried here in February 1014.

Few people realise that the culverted Bury Brook runs under the Great Whyte, as the Gas Board recently discovered by accidentally drilling through the roof!

The original market place, as laid out in the Bury St Edmunds' grid pattern devised by Abbot Baldwin in the 11th century, was a good deal larger than it was by the time this photograph was taken.

The original market place, as laid out in the Bury St Edmunds' grid pattern devised by Abbot Baldwin in the 11th century, was a good deal larger than it was by the time of this photograph.

This quirky artist is Cookham's famous son, being born at Fernlea further down the High Street in 1891 and buried in the churchyard.