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The rural poet William Barnes achieved national fame through the endeavours of Mrs Caroline Norton, who stayed here while the Dorset bard was living nearby at Winterbourne Came.

Pure water produced by artesian wells from the chalk aquifer, inspired the Silva Springs re-branding of the crop that came to fame for Victorian high tea in the Midlands and the North.

Next to Boots came the old-established drapers Lee & Clarke, then came the Public Benefit Boot & Shoe Co, Gaskell's the butchers, Hallett the jewellers (goldsmiths and silversmiths), Carter's Cafe and

When the bridge was built, people came from all over the world to see it.

It benefited from the visitors who came to see the nearby ruins of Strata Florida, particularly after the railway arrived in 1866, and more recently from those who came to the enormous hall in the village

Aberystwyth became a popular resort for the well-to-do, who came here to bathe and socialise from the late 18th century.

The Odeon cinema is typical of the super cinema style of architecture that came into vogue during the 1930s.

On 10 September 1819, the Prince Regent came to stay at the recently opened William's Royal Hotel.

Batley's prosperity came from the process of breaking down and reweaving woollen cloth from waste rags.

They came to see the Holy House, a miraculous re-creation of the house in Nazareth where Jesus was brought up, together with other wonders.

years prior to the building of the new Town Hall, Leicester was in a dreadful sanitary condition, with privies literally over-flowing into the streets, and it was not until the mid 1850s that piped water came

Grassington's boom time was in the 18th century, when a Klondike rush of workers from Derbyshire and Cornwall came to work the lead mines.

Church House (down to the left) dates from 1694, but Grassington's boom time was in the 18th century, when a Klondike rush of workers from Derbyshire and Cornwall came to work the lead mines - and the

The power for the lifts was provided by a hydraulic water-power system that came directly from the pump house situated on Quay Street, by the River Irwell, where the water came from.

Fortunately these plans came to nothing and the gallery began to be used as a hostel where off-duty service women, posted to this area, could spend their leisure time.

The spa trade declined in the 1920s - although more visitors came, they spent less money.

Captain Cuthbert Bradkirk came from Wray, near Carnforth.

The early 19th century saw Leicester in an appalling sanitary condition, until piped water came to the town in the mid 1850s, along with its first sewers.

Aberystwyth became a popular resort for the well-off, who came here to bathe and socialise from the late 18th century.

Batley was the north's shoddy town: its prosperity came from the process of breaking down and reweaving woollen cloth from waste rags.

Holidaymakers came to stay in Redcar after the Second World War, before cheap foreign holidays were developed; many of them came from Scotland and the West Riding.

Victorian visitors came to look at old rural England - so different to their world in the overcrowded working cities of the West Riding.

Brecon Castle and town are Norman in origin, but the castle came first.

Some came to stay as they journeyed around the country, but many more came as friends, to relax, or to take in a few days shooting.