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Arthur Bunting (left) dealt in woollens and linen.

In a splendid old house alongside the water a little beyond the church lived Arthur Quiller-Couch (Q), writer, literature scholar and inveterate sailor.

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

Doubtless that would have been one piece of Warrington's heritage which antiquarian Arthur Bennett of Paddington House would not have been anxious to preserve!

Historian Arthur Mee described Botley as 'a delightful old town with quaint shops, handsome houses, and pretty inns'.William Cobbett was equally fulsome, maintaining that Botley had everything in it

Construction was started in 1919 on this Gothic-style 'Victory' church designed by Arthur Heron Ryan-Tenison; the photograph shows St Paul's shortly after its consecration early in 1924.

Actually, it is a bell tower, described by Arthur Mee as 'the glory of Evesham'.

Within the last 25 years it had undergone remodelling under the supervision of Sir Arthur Blomfield.

Arthur Vernon, Architect and Mayor The career of Arthur Vernon, architect and JP, born in 1846, is a good example of Wycombe's new class of industrialists and professionals.

It was rebuilt in 1908 to plans by the architect Arthur J Stedman of Farnham in the mock-Tudor style prevalent at that time.

In the churchyard can be found the graves of Herbert Asquith, Liberal Prime Minister from 1908 to 1916, and Eric Arthur Blair, who may be better known as the novelist George Orwell, whose works include

Well- known persons came to enjoy the air, that was thought to be on a par with Switzerland; they included George Bernard Shaw and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

This cliff-top headland is wild and picturesque, and legend associates it with King Arthur; there are certainly Dark Age remains here, including those of a monastery founded in about AD 500.

John's neighbour at the vicarage was Canon Arthur Gore DD, who was vicar surrogate and canon residentiary of Chester, and examining chaplain to the Bishop of Chester.

Fabled Tintagel is the legendary birthplace of King Arthur.

This area was once known as the 'Round Table Field', a reminder of the myth that Arthur and his knights once used it as their meeting place.

The bronze bust of Arthur Sullivan of Gilbert and Sullivan fame was erected in Victoria Embankment Gardens in 1903.

Its present name recalls a legend which says that King Arthur and his knights are sleeping in a cave somewhere here, looked after by Merlin.

On the left a baker makes deliveries, while two girls cycle to Arthur and James Fisher's shoe shop, now Butcher's.

It is a suggested site for the battlefield of Mount Badon, where the legendary King Arthur defeated the invading Saxons in the year 520.

Between the entries of Hermitage Lane and Portland Road can just be seen the little shop of Arthur Paine, hairdresser; and on the right, at No 12 Middle Row, is William John Simmons Mann,

The 15-inch gauge line was based on that developed by Sir Arthur Heywood at Duffield Bank near Derby.

The Sir Arthur Blomfield church, dedicated to St Mary Magdalen, was built a generation before, almost at the same time as the school nestling behind the trees on the left.

Stagenhoe Park to the north-east of the villages was the home of Sir Arthur Sullivan.