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Sweets in Tenterden: A Wool Town Turned Cinque ...

Tenterden grew rich on the medieval wool and cloth trade, helped by Flemish weavers who settled in the town, and became wealthy enough to be added to the Cinque Ports...

Sweets in Forfar: Home of the Bridie, and a Tow...

Forfar, the historic county town of Angus, gave its name to the Forfar bridie and was also the site of a series of 17th-century witch trials.

Sweets in Abergavenny: Wales' 'Gateway' Town, a...

Abergavenny, long known as the 'Gateway to Wales', has a castle infamous for a Christmas Day 1175 massacre of Welsh noblemen by the Norman lord William de Braose.

Sweets in Hythe: A Cinque Port Guarded by a Can...

Hythe is one of the original Cinque Ports, and between 1804 and 1809 it gained an unusual defensive feature: the Royal Military Canal, dug along the edge of Romney Marsh...

Sweets in St Ives: A Cornish Fishing Port, and ...

St Ives grew up around pilchard fishing before its coastal light began drawing painters from the late 1800s onward, cemented when Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson settled there in 1939.

Sweets in Ebbw Vale: From One of the World's Bi...

Ebbw Vale's steelworks grew into one of Europe's largest before closing in 2002; part of the site later hosted the 1992 National Garden Festival.