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They felt a need to fill 'The Surrey wilderness', an area of under-representation for Methodism, and significant funding came from a fund set up by Hugh Price Hughes: unfortunately, he died before

Thus the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire came into being.

Why have they left us no clues to tell us where they came from? Did they come from miles around to bury the ashes of their dead princes here?

Thus the Bonar Law Memorial College came into being, a residential college for the study of social and political science.

The mission house remained a place of worship well into the 20th century; it was under the pastoral care of the rector of Guisborough, and he or one of his curates came up to the village to hold services

Furthermore, Jack Straw, a priest who led Wat Tyler's group to invade London, originally came from Fobbing.

The clock on the tower came from Amesbury Abbey nearby - it was given to the church in 1971. Its mechanism is 15th- century, but it was altered to take a pendulum.

When the Romans came to Britain in AD 43, they placed their seat of government at Camulodunum (Colchester).

Besides connections with Arthur, there is a story that Joseph of Arimathea, in whose tomb Jesus was buried, came here as a trader and brought the Glastonbury Thorn.

Dame Laura Knight sketched them often in the 1920s, visiting the Derby in a Rolls- Royce because it had a roof high enough to accommodate an easel inside.

Outside the town wall, many streets were laid out principally to provide lodging houses for the many visitors who came to the town once Tenby became part of the wider rail network.

Life came back to the big house in 1790, when it was bought by John Trotter, an army contractor from Soho, who had a new manor house built on the site.

Here is the tomb of Lady Nelson, perhaps the most famous of the many visitors who came to Exmouth and decided to stay.

This came about because, between 1707 and 1723, the installation of turnpikes on local roads led to such an improvement in their condition that Dunchurch Road became a major thoroughfare.

The legend has it that Turpin shot and killed King by mistake after a mix up over a horse, but other sources seem to think that it was more likely that King came to his just deserts at the end

Corn was ground in stone 'querns' made from the rock to be found at nearby Quorndon, a name meaning 'hill of the querns'.

In 1924, Richmond House, a large house with extensive grounds on the river-front by the Embankment, came into council ownership, following an unsuccessful bid at auction, a fumbled attempt at compulsory

During the Georgian and Regency eras most visitors came to Margate for their health and the sea bathing.

He descended and came to a small basin of sea enclosed by the cliffs [Lulworth Cove]. Troy's nature freshened within him; he thought he would rest and bathe here before going further.

Boston Corporation came into existence on 14 May 1545.

The need for additional leisure facilities had long been recognised and an important move in this direction came with the opening of the Eat 'N' Bowl bowling alley in Huntingdon Street in August

Things recently came to a head in 1998 when there was a decision to divide Shropshire into two areas, the county of Shropshire and the Borough of Telford and Wrekin, thus bringing to an end over

In 1864 an Act was passed whereby from 1 July 1872 the turnpikes disappeared and the turnpike roads came under the care of the local boards of health.

However, along with prosperity came poverty and overcrowding and there was an increasing amount of slum accommodation.