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Sweets in Stourport-on-Severn: The Georgian Tow...

Stourport-on-Severn grew up from the 1770s around the canal basin where James Brindley's Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal meets the River Severn — one of the few English towns largely created...

Sweets in Stowmarket: The 1871 Gun Cotton Works...

In August 1871, an explosion at Stowmarket's gun cotton works killed around two dozen workers, one of Victorian Suffolk's worst industrial disasters.

Sweets in Spilsby: Birthplace of Arctic Explore...

Spilsby in Lincolnshire is the birthplace of Sir John Franklin, the Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer, born in the town in 1786.

Sweets in Waltham Abbey: The Abbey Said to Mark...

Waltham Abbey's church is traditionally linked to King Harold II, said to have been buried there after the Battle of Hastings in 1066 — a genuinely old town with no...

Sweets in Oakham: The Castle Where Visiting Roy...

Oakham is the county town of England's smallest county, Rutland, home to Oakham Castle's Great Hall, where a centuries-old tradition sees visiting peers of the realm gift a horseshoe to...

Sweets in Cheadle: Home to Pugin's Staffordshir...

Cheadle, Staffordshire is home to St Giles' Catholic Church, designed by architect Augustus Pugin and completed in 1846 — often called "Pugin's Gem" and considered one of his finest works.