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The abbey was founded in 1155 by the Constable of Richmond Castle; the members of the Order were known as the White Canons after the colour of their habits.

In the latter part of the 19th century, Royle Hall was the home of Canon Arthur Townley Parker, the long-serving incumbent of St Peter's.

In the 21st century the option of a toffee apple being 'made before your eyes' (as the stall centre right boasts) without an EU directive is something at which one can only wonder.

Founded in 1182, it was not until a couple of hundred years later that the abbey really made its mark when a group of Premonstratensian Canons moved here from nearby Minsmere.

The long Asparagus Island on the left can only be reached across the beach at low tide.

Shap Abbey, near the banks of the River Lowther, was founded by the 'white canons' of the Premonstratensian order at the end of the 12th century, but it was dissolved, like so many others, in 1540

The author Charles Kingsley was an honorary canon at the church of St Alkelda and St Mary.

The Abbey was founded in 1128 for the Augustinian Canons by David I, who as King was responsible for the re-introduction of monasticism into Scotland.

The latter was begun by Canon Woodard in 1867 with the intention of complementing the school buildings. Work was eventually completed in 1978 after more than a century.

Edward the Confessor created a college of secular canons here, and the church dates from this period of the 12th century.

A protest led by Canon Rawnsley, co- founder of the National Trust, succeeded in preserving several original features.

1550), who after going to Oxford became one of Henry VIII's chaplains, and in 1520 was appointed Canon of Windsor.

Lady Isabel de Cressey founded this priory for Augustinian canons in the reign of King John.

Danby is perhaps best known as the parish where Canon J C Atkinson wrote his Forty Years in a Moorland Parish, a wonderful evocation of moorland life.

In 1837 the local squire, Reverend Canon Rogers, commissioned James Rendell to design a harbour for the Loe.

Before the days of refrigerators, patrons often suspended bottles of beer in the canal to keep it cool - one can only hope that the seals were sound!

Shap Abbey, near the banks of the River Lowther, was founded by the 'white canons' of the Premonstratensian order at the end of the 12th century, but it was dissolved, like so many others, in 1540.

The abbey of the White Canons was transferred here from Minsmere in 1363, and rebuilt after a fire in 1382.

It is a replica of the ancient Ruthwell Cross, and was placed here in 1892 by the efforts of Canon Rawnsley, one of the founders of the National Trust.

The twin-archwayed late 15th-century gatehouse is Canon Gate, which leads into the Cathedral precincts.

It was re-discovered by Canon W H R Jones, the vicar of Holy Trinity and a keen antiquarian. He came across references to it in a text dated 1125.

When Lewis Carroll was visiting his father, who was Canon of Ripon from 1852 to 1868, these wonderful carvings inspired his book 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'.

The author Charles Kingsley was an honorary canon at the church of St Alkelda and St Mary.

At the time of the Domesday Book there were already 21 houses in Christchurch, and 24 canons attached to the priory church.