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Sweets in Halstead: Home to One of England's Gr...

Halstead grew into a major English silk-producing town after Courtaulds built a large mill on the River Colne; the mill building still stands today.

Sweets in Ramsey: Site of One of Medieval Engla...

Ramsey in Cambridgeshire grew up around Ramsey Abbey, a Benedictine abbey founded in 969 AD once known as 'Ramsey the Rich'.

Sweets in Upton-upon-Severn: The Riverside Town...

Upton-upon-Severn is known for "the Pepperpot", the surviving Baroque tower of its old parish church, and for a river crossing used by Cromwell's forces in 1651 shortly before the Battle...

Sweets in Tring: Home to a Victorian Lord's Ext...

Tring's Natural History Museum began as the private menagerie and taxidermy collection of Walter Rothschild, opened to the public in the 1890s — a Chilterns town with no bulk or...

Sweets in Saffron Walden: The Town That Gave Sa...

Saffron Walden takes its name from the saffron crocus once cultivated in the surrounding fields for its valuable spice and dye.

Sweets in Whittlesey: Home of the Straw Bear Fe...

Whittlesey in Cambridgeshire is home to the Whittlesea Straw Bear Festival, a folk custom recorded since at least the 19th century and revived in 1980.