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The rural poet William Barnes achieved national fame through the endeavours of Mrs Caroline Norton, who stayed here while the Dorset bard was living nearby at Winterbourne Came.

Pure water produced by artesian wells from the chalk aquifer, inspired the Silva Springs re-branding of the crop that came to fame for Victorian high tea in the Midlands and the North.

When the bridge was built, people came from all over the world to see it. So many people came, in fact, that the hotel was opened in 1783 especially to cater for them all.

Next to Boots came the old-established drapers Lee & Clarke, then came the Public Benefit Boot & Shoe Co, Gaskell's the butchers, Hallett the jewellers (goldsmiths and silversmiths), Carter's Cafe and

The spa trade declined in the 1920s - although more visitors came, they spent less money. The fashion for health spas was on the wane.

It benefited from the visitors who came to see the nearby ruins of Strata Florida, particularly after the railway arrived in 1866, and more recently from those who came to the enormous hall in the village

On 10 September 1819, the Prince Regent came to stay at the recently opened William's Royal Hotel. As a result the hotel was renamed The Regent.

The Odeon cinema is typical of the super cinema style of architecture that came into vogue during the 1930s.

Holidaymakers came to stay in Redcar after the Second World War, before cheap foreign holidays were developed; many of them came from Scotland and the West Riding.

They came to see the Holy House, a miraculous re-creation of the house in Nazareth where Jesus was brought up, together with other wonders.

years prior to the building of the new Town Hall, Leicester was in a dreadful sanitary condition, with privies literally over-flowing into the streets, and it was not until the mid 1850s that piped water came

Aberystwyth became a popular resort for the well-to-do, who came here to bathe and socialise from the late 18th century.

Batley's prosperity came from the process of breaking down and reweaving woollen cloth from waste rags. The raw material came from as far afield as Berlin and Rotterdam.

Grassington's boom time was in the 18th century, when a Klondike rush of workers from Derbyshire and Cornwall came to work the lead mines.

Church House (down to the left) dates from 1694, but Grassington's boom time was in the 18th century, when a Klondike rush of workers from Derbyshire and Cornwall came to work the lead mines - and the

Batley was the north's shoddy town: its prosperity came from the process of breaking down and reweaving woollen cloth from waste rags.

Aberystwyth became a popular resort for the well-off, who came here to bathe and socialise from the late 18th century.

The early 19th century saw Leicester in an appalling sanitary condition, until piped water came to the town in the mid 1850s, along with its first sewers.

The power for the lifts was provided by a hydraulic water-power system that came directly from the pump house situated on Quay Street, by the River Irwell, where the water came from.

Captain Cuthbert Bradkirk came from Wray, near Carnforth. He was in charge of Clitheroe Castle after it was damaged by Prince Rupert's army.

Fortunately these plans came to nothing and the gallery began to be used as a hostel where off-duty service women, posted to this area, could spend their leisure time.

Victorian visitors came to look at old rural England - so different to their world in the overcrowded working cities of the West Riding.

With the arrival of the Piccadilly Line came an influx of commuters, and with this influx came the promise of commercial profits.

Brecon Castle and town are Norman in origin, but the castle came first. It was the creation of Bernard de Neufmarche, one of many Norman conquerors, to keep the Welsh in their place.