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This stone, which marked the grave of a Viking warrior, was his resting spot for over 1,000 years: it is from the 10th century.

St Chad's Church in Farndon is one of the few that still carries out a rush-bearing ceremony each year: fresh rushes are brought into the church, and also laid on the paths and graves outside.

These six ancient graves hewn from solid rock close to the chapel of St Patrick lie on the impressive Heysham headland.

The Royal Edward dock had a water area of 25 acres and a graving dock 875ft in length.

There are few graves here, although headstones hidden amongst the shrubs on the left remind churchgoers that this was once a graveyard too.

Kenelm's death made his grave second only to Thomas Becket's as a site of pilgrimage during the Middle Ages, and Winchcombe one of the region's earliest tourist centres.

An Anglo-Saxon settlement grew up around the chapel on the site of the grave of Edwin, King of Northumberland.

The churchyard contained 1800 graves; it was closed in 1854, with many of the stones being removed in 1932 and 1950 during the creation of All Saints' Square.

In the churchyard stands the grave of Henry Boswell, a gypsy king, who boasted that he lived through the reign of three Georges and that he knew every road in the land.

A grave near the fence commemorates Harold and Mary Worth, killed by enemy action on 23 December 1940 at Acton Farm.

In 1914 the Palladium was offering a picture show every afternoon and George Graves & Co twice nightly.

Nearby lies the churchyard; here we can find the grave of James Parker, who was brutally murdered outside the village in 1886.

During the building of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, numerous graves of Saxon warriors were found; some of the warriors still clasped swords in their hands.

On the other side of the road is the church of St Andrew the Great, which contains a monument to the explorer Captain Cook, along with the graves of his widow and two sons, the younger of whom attended

On the other side of the road is the church of St Andrew the Great, which contains a monument to the explorer Captain Cook, along with the graves of his widow and two sons, the younger of whom attended

The old church tower, along with the old graves, was left on the cliff top.

The 'discovery' of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere's graves in the 12th century, and the legend of Joseph of Arimathea, Christ's uncle, founding the first Christian church in England were powerful

In the churchyard lies the grave of Maria Rathbone, a little girl who died having lost her way home, and whose body was recovered several weeks later as the result of a dream by a stranger.

Many of their cast-iron grave markers can be seen in the churchyard.

Now demolished, its site is occupied by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission headquarters of 1974.

In the churchyard are a number of interesting graves, including those of a medieval knight and of one of the Young Pretender's soldiers.

It has suffered gravely since being declared redundant in 1977, and is boarded up at the time of writing.

In the Farmery Mine a disaster in 1820 killed 20 men - their graves are in the churchyard.

At one time the churchyard wall decayed, rainwater washed the soil away from the graves, and bones were taken down the hill, even into the water.