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Sweets in Holywood: The Maypole, the Only One S...

Holywood's maypole is the only surviving one in Ireland, and early maps show one has stood on the site since the 1620s — a genuinely historic County Down town, just...

Sweets in Frome: 370 Listed Buildings, the Most...

Frome has around 370 listed buildings, the most in Somerset outside Bath, and its first church dates to about 685 — a genuinely historic Somerset town, just not one with...

Sweets in Kirkwall: Britain's Most Northerly Ca...

St Magnus Cathedral, begun in 1137, is Britain's most northerly cathedral and dominates the heart of Kirkwall — a genuinely historic Orkney town, just not one with a sweet shop...

Sweets in Strabane: The Printing Press Where th...

John Dunlap, who printed the first broadside copies of the US Declaration of Independence, learned the rudiments of his trade at Gray's Printing Press in Strabane — a genuinely surprising...

Sweets in Chippenham: Where Alfred the Great Wa...

On 6 January 878 a Viking army under Guthrum made a surprise night attack on Alfred the Great's royal settlement at Chippenham — a genuinely historic Wiltshire town, just not...

Sweets in Wick: Telford's Planned Town of Pulte...

Wick's Pulteneytown was laid out by Thomas Telford for the British Fisheries Society, and in the 1860s some 1,100 herring boats worked from the harbour — a genuinely historic Caithness...