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Historian Arthur Mee, in his book 'The King's England - Oxfordshire,' says that 'if our England is a garden Great Tew is one of its rare plots...never anything but beautiful'.

Arthur Ransome included Pin Mill and its activities in We Didn't Mean to go to Sea (1937).

The small white building behind the sign for Arthur Moyse, coal and coke merchant, was the 19th-century tollhouse.

The village of Eynsford was once home to a well known man of Kent, the writer and historian Arthur Mee.

It is perhaps best known for its two prehistoric monuments: King Arthur's Round Table, a Bronze Age henge, and the former Neolithic stone circle and henge at Mayburgh, of which only one standing stone

On the right is the memorial cairn built in 1881 by Arthur Forbes of Culloden.

H.G.Wells and Rudyard Kipling spent their formative years locally, and Arthur Conan Doyle established a med- ical practice in the town in 1882.

Legend relates that it was close to here that the Saxon warlord Cerdic landed to begin the Saxon invasion of southern England, only to be thwarted by the British war-leader Arthur.

The Round Table, traditionally associated with King Arthur, can be seen hanging on the west wall.

Although Arthur Conan Doyle set his novel 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' in Dartmoor, he got his inspiration here – the Baskerville family once owned Eardisley's castle and the story of the black

Thus Arthur Mee captures the forbidding character of this remote community, beset by fogs and rain.

A new village was born around the railway station and with it a new church, St Mary's, built in 1892 by Sir Arthur Blomfield.

This pleasant open space next to the railway line was donated as a recreation ground by Alderman Arthur Bennett, a former mayor and a passionate believer in the importance of preserving Warrington's historic

It became St Michael's College in 1887, with the Rev Arthur R Sharpe as headmaster.

Known collectively as the 'Penrith Henges', the other two are King Arthur's Round Table and the Little Round Table, though little remains of the latter.

In the late 20th century, the Hall became the Arthur Findlay College for the Advancement of Physical Science.

This is the land of Swallows and Amazons, for near the foot of Coniston Water lies High Nibthwaite, where the author, Arthur Ransome spent his childhood holidays and developed a passion for the area that

Historian Arthur Mee described Botley as 'a delightful old town with quaint shops, handsome houses, and pretty inns'.

Arthur Mee described Holy Trinity Church as 'a fine church with many fine possessions'.

In 1890, the town was the birthplace of Arthur Stanley Jefferson, better known as Stan Laurel, and a museum in Upper Brook Street, off to the right, celebrates his partnership with Oliver

The nave and chancel were rebuilt again in flint in the 1880s by Sir Arthur Blomfield with rainwater heads dated 1884.

The medieval church, with its plain west tower and stumpy shingled broach spire, was extensively restored, not entirely successfully, in the 1850s by William Slater for the dynamic Reverend Arthur Eden

The design was by Sir Arthur Blomfield, and it was carved by Thomas Nicholls of Kennington.

Arthur Mee in his King's England series says about the church: 'It is naked and bare, and all the better for that'.