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This is the birthplace of the celebrated 20th-century actress, Dame Sybil Thorndike. Little has changed here over the years, despite the growth of the paper mill.

Alfred Watkins, the man who came up with the idea of ley lines, claimed that churches were sometimes built deliberately on ancient tracks, with tunnels provided for travellers to pass through.

Whit Monday crowds came thick and fast. The press of humanity on beach and pier proved the boast of the Council: 'Blackpool will not be left behind in any respect'.

Well placed to attract passing motorists, it also served the visitors who came to enjoy a day on the shore, where a fine sandy beach borders the sea.

Much of the woodwork came from old ships' timbers - this was at a time when newer wood was taken for the building of warships.

The village's name was originally spelt Cranley.

In 1930 the Ecclesall Union Hospital came under local government control and was renamed Nether Edge.

Supplies came by sea to Poole Harbour and then by road from Hamworthy to Wimborne.

The Institute was originally the local reading room, where people came to read books and newspapers. It was the first place of adult education in Grange.

Unfortunately, the apparent care taken in its preservation came to nought when it eventually succumbed to honey fungus.

The town's growth came from the nearby coal mines - they are now closed. The most noted industry now is the well-known Ibstock brick company, which sells to customers world-wide.

An ancient village, Wolviston lies close to Wynyard Hall, historically the family home of the Londonderry dynasty, whose fortune came from the ownership of several collieries and a port in County Durham

As its name implies, this lovely Georgian town was once a port, though its harbour is now two miles away at West Bay.

Cluntergate is one of the main roads leading out from the centre of Horbury, whose main claim to fame is that it was the birthplace of the famous 18th-century architect always, but erroneously, known as

It obviously came from the temple pediment, and is now in the British Museum.

The first people to live here built their houses from mud (the area later became an important centre for brick production), so that Lye came to be known as the 'Mud City'.

Known today for the nearby open prison situated on an old RAF camp, Eastchurch's claim to fame in earlier days was that it was the site of the first British airfield.

The timber came from the Haigh and from Crawford's estates in Jamaica.

Nine years before it was taken, a young Flora Thompson, who wrote the trilogy 'Lark Rise to Candleford', came to Grayshott to work at the post office.

He came from a wealthy family, and spent much of his fortune developing St Catharine's (named after the patron saint of learning).

The cannon 'Mons Meg' is said to have been cast at Mons, Belgium in 1486, on the orders of James III.

The sea came well up to the promenade; in later years, as at Southport, it has receded. Picture postcards often featured this hotel—one reads 'All the nobs stay here'!

A further boost to the port's success came with the construction of a spur to the Lancaster Canal in 1826, and a huge basin was built to accommodate the barges that transported the cargoes inland.

The early 18th-century Bell Inn on the Eastbourne Road was one of several important staging inns in this village when Cobbett came here in 1822 and lauded it as being beautiful.