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The town holds an annual Dickens festival when people dress up in Victorian costumes and listen to readings from Dickens's books.

As well as a theatre, there was a library of rare Shakespearean books, and the view from the tower was highly recommended.

Most of the Wakes Week holiday-makers provided their own food, which was then cooked for them by the landlady; each room would have its own food locker in the dining room.

Ashford, situated in the south-west corner of the county, takes its name from an ancient river crossing, the Exeford of the Domesday Book.

A later owner, Sir Robert Vyner, notoriously cooked one of his deceased servants, displaying the corpse in an open coffin to visitors - a macabre spectacle that delighted Samuel Pepys, who recorded

It was carried in 20lb bundles up the steep cliffside and taken home to be cooked with vinegar and bacon. Laver is still served in local cafes today.

When W H N Nithersdale wrote his book on the Highlands of Staffordshire, he was impressed by the number of public houses in the village, all of which did a roaring trade during the summer months and

In 1183 the Boldon Book refers to 'coalsmiths' at Sedgefield and Bishopwearmouth and to colliers at Escomb.

Victorian guide book writers were not impressed by the bathing at Ryde.

Barnston appears in the Domesday Book as 'Bernestone', then held by William Fitz-Nigel, second Baron of Halton.

This area of Norfolk is sheep country, and Stokesby is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as having 180 sheep in the manorial flock.

The village and countryside around inspired his most famous book, 'Cider with Rosie'. Upon visiting, one can easily see the reason for such inspirational writing.

A later owner, Sir Robert Vyner, notoriously cooked one of his deceased servants, displaying the corpse in an open coffin to visitors - a macabre spectacle that delighted Samuel Pepys, who recorded

A guide book for 1886 states that the village had no special feature of interest to the tourist, though its situation was pleasant and that the church with its stumpy spire was charmingly placed amid a

Milk churns are - of course - consigned to the history books.

Owned for centuries by the Aspinall family, Pendleton was an old village when the Domesday Book was compiled.

Rather like King's Norton, Moseley appears in Domesday Book as a berewick of the Royal Manor of Bromsgrove.

This 210ft long room houses about 200,000 antiquarian books. The room was altered in 1857, with first and second floors thrown together under a timber barrel-vaulted roof.

According to Nikolaus Pevsner in his book 'The Buildings of England - Berkshire', St Mary's is 'reached along a regrettable bungalowscape'.

The historic Swan Inn, left of centre, was mentioned in the Frome Rate Book of 1663. The decorative lamp in the foreground on the right has now gone.

In the Domesday Book its name is recorded as Mortona, and it was later known as Mor Tun; locals still refer to it as Moreton. Prominent on the horizon (right) are Haytor and Low Man.

The two-masted vessel in the centre of the harbour is typical of the many ketches that worked the coast - sturdy, no- nonsense boats which carried everything from cooking pots to coal

Corfe Mullen had a mill as long ago as the Domesday Book; it retained its independence until well into the 20th century, when its great neighbour Poole began to creep out towards it.

By the 1880s the shoeblack societies had four hundred boys on their books. A number were given cheap board and lodging.