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It was at Winsford that Ernest Bevin was born in 1881.

Robert Kett, who led the rebellion in Norfolk during 1549, was born in Wymondham; he held the first meeting of peasants on Wymondham common.

The lovely churchyard provides a fitting last resting place for the Yorkshire-born composer Frederick Delius, whose works sought to express the magic and peaceful charm of the English countryside.

Major-general Thomas Harrison, who served in the Parliamentary army during the Civil War, was born in a house on the High Street.

Major-general Thomas Harrison, who served in the Parliamentary army during the Civil War, was born in a house on the High Street.

The house below that was home to District Nurse Georgina Montgomery, who was born in India, and then to Nurse Bendall.

A local man called Square Stubbs was born in Beckbury in 1671 - he used to ride up to 20 miles every day, always at a steady trot that became known as All Stretton.

Mary, Queen of Scots was born here in 1542, and Prince Charles Edward Stuart stayed here in 1745. The palace was accidentally burnt down by General Hawley's troops in 1746.

Two of the artist's daughters were born in the fourth house on the right in 1750 and 1751.

Bethesda, a village born of slate and the workings of the Penrhyn Quarry, has always had a vibrant community.

Conistone clusters around its village green, and is still just as dependent on farming as when this photograph, complete with ewes and new-born lambs in the foreground, was taken.

Born in 1830, the year the college opened, Brown was a poet, scholar, and Fellow of Oriel College.

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

Greenock was the birthplace, in 1736, of James Watt, who was born in a house on Dalrymple Street.

The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, eldest son of Sir Timothy Shelley MP, was born on 4 August 1792 at Field Place in Warnham, where he spent his childhood.

The Carry On film star Hattie Jacques was born here.

The journalist-cum-explorer Henry Morton Stanley was born John Rowlands in a cottage beneath the castle.

John Keble, writer of The Christian Year and a leading light in the Oxford Movement, was born in Fairford in 1792, and the American artist Edwin Austin Abbey came to live in the town in 1878.

His mother, Caroline Suckling, was born at the rectory to the left of the church.

The school was founded in 1726 as an endowed charity school for 'orphan gentlewomen borne of parents of the Church of England'.

The famous 16th-century map maker, John Speed, was born in this village.

The picturesque village has been used for the filming of the BBC series 'Born and Bred'. East Barsham's manor house was built by Sir William Fermor during the reign of Henry VII.

Robert Nixon was born near here. On 22 August 1485 he fell into a trance, and afterwards said that a great battle had taken place and that there was now a new king.

Katherine Parr, Henry VIII's sixth and surviving wife, was born here in 1512; at that time the castle was in the hands of Sir Thomas Parr.