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The grandiose scheme came to nothing as the First World War intervened, and the remains of the Old Fox lay rotting in Victoria Park.

Sir Joseph came from the nearby village of Revesby, and the plants he brought back from his journey with Captain Cook formed Kew Gardens.

The name of the village had an 'e' on the end until the railway company put up their sign spelt 'Gisburn', and the 'e' was forgotten.

One of Chirk's more unusual claims to fame is that it was once besieged by its owner.

Mayhem ensued when it came to paying the bill, for each party believed itself the guest of the other.

This village near Midhurst was built mainly to house employees of the Cowdray Estate, famed for the landscaped park and polo playing.

Steel work came from the US; it had been intended for a wartime GMC plant making B29 bombers.

Tottington's unusual claim to fame is that it is one of the most northerly places to have suffered a hit from a German V1 flying bomb, or Doodlebug, during the Second World War.

The monument to the left of the church came from the 1851 Great Exhibition.

Eventually, having run out of food, she came out.

Two years later the Art Gallery opened, and the whole building came into use.

Technically, Wilmslow was just the parish church and its immediate graveyard, however, the name is now given to the whole of the community.

Butter was cut from a huge slab, sugar was weighed into stiff blue bags and biscuits also came loose - weighed out from large square tins.

In those days the sea came much closer, and it used to be a fisherman's home.

In fact, Disley has always been a roadside settlement: its existence goes back to a time when a Roman road came through here.

The impressive lozenge-shaped stone came from a surface outcrop of sarsen stones (the word sarsen derives from Saracen, and means stranger) which can be found on the Marlborough Downs about two miles away

A local legend says that the people planned to build it on lower land, but each night, after work, a pig came along and moved all the stones back up to the top of the hill.

In 1948, St John's Hospital for the aged and infirm came on site.

Spence said that his design came to him when he was under the influence of anaesthetic for toothache: he saw zigzagging walls and an altar ablaze with light.

A statue of St Edmund, by Dame Elizabeth Frink, was placed here in 1976 to commemorate the end of Bury St Edmunds and West Suffolk as independent administrative areas.

Its civic duties came to an end in 1985 when the building was taken over by the Cheltenham & Gloucester Building Society.

Personalities like Oscar Wilde, Shackleton, Einstein, Winston Churchill and members of European royal families came here, to name but a few.

Elihu Yale, founder of Yale University in the USA, came from the Wrexham area (his family was associated with Erddig Hall), and he is buried at St Giles's church.

Further alterations were made by the Wyatt family when it came into their possession in 1493, and Sir Thomas Wyatt, the father of the English sonnet, was born here in 1503.