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Sweets in Hungerford: A Tradition Older Than th...
Hungerford's Hocktide festival, held every spring since medieval times, traces the town's rights back to a charter reportedly granted by John of Gaunt in around 1364.
Sweets in Hungerford: A Tradition Older Than th...
Hungerford's Hocktide festival, held every spring since medieval times, traces the town's rights back to a charter reportedly granted by John of Gaunt in around 1364.
Sweets in Daventry: The Hilltop Town That Once ...
From 1925, the BBC's transmitting station on Daventry's Borough Hill carried the Empire Service around the globe under the call sign "Daventry calling", built on a hill that was already...
Sweets in Daventry: The Hilltop Town That Once ...
From 1925, the BBC's transmitting station on Daventry's Borough Hill carried the Empire Service around the globe under the call sign "Daventry calling", built on a hill that was already...
Sweets in New Milton: The Railway Town Beside B...
New Milton grew up around a railway station that opened in 1888, on a coastline at Barton-on-Sea where 40-million-year-old cliffs are still giving up Eocene fossils today.
Sweets in New Milton: The Railway Town Beside B...
New Milton grew up around a railway station that opened in 1888, on a coastline at Barton-on-Sea where 40-million-year-old cliffs are still giving up Eocene fossils today.
Sweets in Thatcham: Flints From 10,000 Years Ago
Mesolithic flint tools found in Thatcham's reedbeds are thought to date back roughly 10,000 years — among the earliest evidence of human activity found anywhere in Britain.
Sweets in Thatcham: Flints From 10,000 Years Ago
Mesolithic flint tools found in Thatcham's reedbeds are thought to date back roughly 10,000 years — among the earliest evidence of human activity found anywhere in Britain.
Sweets in Wem: The Shropshire Town Where the Mo...
Wem became the adopted home of horticulturist Henry Eckford in 1888, who spent the rest of his life there breeding the sweet pea varieties that made the flower a garden...
Sweets in Wem: The Shropshire Town Where the Mo...
Wem became the adopted home of horticulturist Henry Eckford in 1888, who spent the rest of his life there breeding the sweet pea varieties that made the flower a garden...
Sweets in Lymington: The Town Built on Six Cent...
Lymington's sea salt industry, recorded since the Domesday Book of 1086 and once running to some 163 saltpans, shaped this Hampshire harbour town's economy for over 700 years before closing...
Sweets in Lymington: The Town Built on Six Cent...
Lymington's sea salt industry, recorded since the Domesday Book of 1086 and once running to some 163 saltpans, shaped this Hampshire harbour town's economy for over 700 years before closing...