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The Hoad Hill Monument at Ulverston is a replica of the Eddystone Lighthouse, and was built as a memorial to Sir John Barrow, founder of the Royal Geographical Society and for 40 years Secretary to the

The Doric column on the right is a monument to William Wilberforce, who was born in Hull, and was responsible for the abolition of slavery throughout the Empire.

A few hundred yards from the hall stands South Farm, where Mary Ann Evans was born in 1819.

By the 1950s, with the advent of popular motoring, Broadway was starting to attract car-borne tourists in considerable numbers.

Both the hillside and village are named after the Devon-born churchman who brought Christianity to Germany. The original Saxon church may have been founded by the saint before he went abroad.

John Skelton, poet laureate and tutor to Henry VIII, was born here and served as rector for 25 years.

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

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.

Dating from 1926, the war memorial was opened by the Earl of Derby, though its cost was borne by Caleb Thornber, a cotton manufacturer and former Mayor of Burnley.

Situated half-way between Edinburgh and Stirling, Linlithgow became a favourite royal residence, though during the wars with the English it was often under siege or counter-siege.

The long village High Street running down from the ridge overlooking the Weald and the 13th-century church of St Peter is lined with picturesque tile-hung cottages.

Henry Tudor, the future King Henry VII, was born here in 1457.

Edward Melly was born in Liverpool in 1857, but came to Nuneaton after being educated at Rugby School.

Sir John was born at Dragley Beck in the town, and went on to become Second Secretary to the Admiralty; he decided Napoleon's place of exile.

The village main street is little changed, although Bel and the Dragon on the right is no longer also a garage.

The distinctive central tower of King William's College was designed by John Welch and was a feature of a major rebuilding programme following a fire in 1844.

Beyond the draper's awning is the Quaker Meeting House and Buzzards, the home of Thomas Gainsborough's uncle Thomas.

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.

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

Beckbury, just a mile or so to the south, can certainly be described as a village, and it still retains its pub, the Seven Stars.

It provides a welcome resting place for shoppers and visitors. The modern shop fronts in the town hide many old medieval houses.

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

One of the most famous shipyards was that of John Scott, which built the first steamer to trade between Glasgow and Liverpool.