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His books were once as popular as those of Agatha Christie, although nowadays few people know of him or his work.

As one old guide book pointed out, 'To every broadsman who quants his wherry along the slow rivers, Acle Bridge is a haven or port of call.

His most well-known book is 'Itinerarium Cambriae', 'The Itinerary of Wales'.

Askrigg was already prosperous when the Domesday book was compiled, and continued as the commercial and industrial centre of Upper Wensleydale until 1699, when Hawes was granted a market charter.

One Victorian guide book writer described Beer as 'a rare subject for the pencil'.

It was in Tong that he buried Little Nell in his book 'The Old Curiosity Shop', and so immediately gave rise to a thriving local tourist industry for visitors to see her grave.

Katherine's Cross in Ampthill Park gained a subsequent measure of recognition when it proved to be the burial site of the 'Golden Hare' - the subject of a national treasure hunt based on Kit Williams' book

Gisburn appears in Domesday Book. The church tower looks Norman, but the main doorway is 13th-century. Oliver Cromwell stabled horses and troops in the church after the Battle of Preston in 1648.

So too did William Palmer, the Rugeley Poisoner, who began to poison his last victim, John Cook, while they both stayed here.

Captain James Cook was employed here as a grocer's apprentice, perhaps in a shop like that on the right of this photograph, before he made his name as the discoverer of Australia.

A contemporary guide book offers a poetic description: 'Above rise on all sides hoary, lichen-covered cliffs, rocks piled on rocks, tunnelled, ribbed and groined, with chasms and natural arches, like

The Manor of Stone was not mentioned in the Domesday Book, though it was given by William the Conqueror to one Erasmus de Walton. His family held it until the reign of Henry I.

Books and newspapers would have been on sale for those who had the leisure to read them.

Mentioned in the Domesday Book and briefly a spa town in the 17th century, Wellingborough was granted market rights by King John in 1201. Cromwell stayed here en route to Naseby during the Civil War.

One Jack Rattenbury, a native of the town, actually wrote a book in 1837 describing his activities - 'Memoirs of a Smuggler'.

Lymington, standing proudly above the short estuary of the Lymington or Boldre River, is first mentioned in the Domesday Book as Lentune, though a settlement existed here long before that.

His book 'The Christian Year' led to the birth of the Oxford Movement, and many of his lyrics are still sung in Cotswold churches.

The parade of shops on the left are currently occupied by Thomas Cook, Abbey, a hairstylist and a photographic shop, whilst Boots is in the adjacent block.

Woodplumpton is recorded in the Domesday Book.

In his book, Pevsner asks: 'why are they not in line, and why does the easternmost bay on the north side differ from the others?'

At weekends they flocked to Sydenham in their thousands to enjoy the displays and exhibitions - Blondin once walked a high wire here and cooked an omelette seventy feet in the air!

The new building stands at the right hand end of the flour mill, which is mentioned in the Domesday Book. Some of the silo sections can be seen at the edge of the wharf.

Drummond's library was one of the finest of its day, containing about 1,400 books in English, French, Latin, Greek, Spanish, Italian and Hebrew.

The new building stands at the right hand end of the flour mill, which is mentioned in the Domesday Book. Some of the silo sections can be seen at the edge of the wharf.