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

Mary, Queen of Scots was born here in 1542, and Prince Charles Edward Stuart stayed here in 1745.

A local man called Square Stubbs was born in Beckbury in 1671 - he used to ride up to 20 miles every day, always at a steady trot that became known as All Stretton.

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.

Robert Kett, who led the rebellion in Norfolk during 1549, was born in Wymondham; he held the first meeting of peasants on Wymondham common.

The lovely churchyard provides a fitting last resting place for the Yorkshire-born composer Frederick Delius, whose works sought to express the magic and peaceful charm of the English countryside.

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

This quirky artist is Cookham's famous son, being born at Fernlea further down the High Street in 1891 and buried in the churchyard.

Born in 1830, the year the college opened, Brown was a poet, scholar, and Fellow of Oriel College.

Two of the artist's daughters were born in the fourth house on the right in 1750 and 1751.

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.

Greenock was the birthplace, in 1736, of James Watt, who was born in a house on Dalrymple Street.

The journalist-cum-explorer Henry Morton Stanley was born John Rowlands in a cottage beneath the castle.

The Carry On film star Hattie Jacques was born here.

The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, eldest son of Sir Timothy Shelley MP, was born on 4 August 1792 at Field Place in Warnham, where he spent his childhood.

His mother, Caroline Suckling, was born at the rectory to the left of the church.

John Keble, writer of The Christian Year and a leading light in the Oxford Movement, was born in Fairford in 1792, and the American artist Edwin Austin Abbey came to live in the town in 1878.

The school was founded in 1726 as an endowed charity school for 'orphan gentlewomen borne of parents of the Church of England'.

The famous 16th-century map maker, John Speed, was born in this village.

Robert Nixon was born near here.

The picturesque village has been used for the filming of the BBC series 'Born and Bred'.

His son Matthew, the poet, was born in Laleham in 1822, and spent the early years of his life here.