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Industry came early to Rugeley. There was a forge in the area by 1273, and glassmaking was well established by the early 14th century.

Pilgrims came from all over the world to pay homage at the Shrine of St Swithun, a former Winchester Bishop.

In the inter-war years Frinton was known for its famous 'summer season' residents, who came for the golf club and the lawn tennis tournament.

The remarkable Miss Mary Anning brought fame to Lyme when she discovered an ichthyosaur near Charmouth in 1811. Fossil hunting remains a lucrative industry here to this day.

In fact, by the end of the 13th century half of England's entire revenue came from wool.

'Jesus came to them walking on the sea' is carved over the twin doorways below the bell cote.

The overhanging storeys were a feature of town architecture, which came into use some time in the late 13th or early 14th centuries.

The hall was founded as a religious institution in 1357, and eventually came into the hands of the most powerful and wealthy traders in York.

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.

Guthlac, a Mercian royal warrior, came here on St Bartholomew's Day 699, having entered the monastery at Repton. He said that he would found his hermitage wherever his boat landed among the swamps.

It even catered for the Empress of Germany, who came here in 1891. Forty-five years later, Mrs Wallis Simpson was resident in Felixstowe during the abdication crisis.

The old abbey just outside the village was founded in 1411 as a Benedictine hospital, but at the Dissolution it came into the hands of the Courtenay family who made it into a residence.

The centre of Wollaston is often referred to as Wollaston Junction, recalling the time when two tram routes met here - one came from Stourbridge, and the other was the Amblecote to Kinver Light Railway

Until the railways came, coal from the Forest of Dean also arrived on board barges.

Spacious period houses line its streets and lanes, built by the affluent who came then, as now, to retire here.

The Lloyd family, who set up Lloyds bank, came from Meifod – but the bank in the photograph is the Midland! The Lion Hotel, earlier called the Lion Inn, can be seen to the left.

Replacing much smaller and increasingly inadequate local facilities dating back to the 1830s, the requisite funds came in from across the social spectrum.

With a massive replanting programme set to recreate its original horticultural splendour, last year's Green Flag award for excellence came as little surprise.

Owain Glyndwr took the castle in 1404, but his attempt to bring independence to Wales came to an end when Henry V stormed Harlech and captured Owain and his family.

The Colts' fortune came from Sir Thomas, Privy Councillor to Edward IV. His brass is in the church. It was one of his daughters, Jane, who married Sir Thomas More.

Redcar was once the most northerly of the Yorkshire resorts and was famed for its horse racing.

At that time it was one of the biggest warehouses in England; the staff came largely from their factories in Dagenham. They are still a major employer in Daventry.

Littleham became fashionable during the Georgian period when such notables as Lady Nelson, who was estranged from her naval hero husband, came to live in the village.

Southbourne has an unfortuate place in aviation history as the scene of the air crash that killed the pioneer pilot Mr Rolls, of Rolls Royce fame, in 1910.