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- Caister-on-Sea
A pleasant little village whose claim to fame is a life-boat station and a Roman fort.
- Lowestoft
Lowestoft is the easternmost town in Britain.
- Blythborough
Blythborough is a tiny village with a big and beautiful church
- Cawston
Another of Norfolk's many beautiful villages with a fascinating church
- Bungay
The Black Dog of Bungay has passed into legend - but is that all it is?
- Happisburgh
Set on the Norfolk coast, Happisburgh was the scene of a tragic shipwreck.
- Bergholt
Work on the church tower of this little town was abandoned in the 1500s.
- Norwich
The centre of east Anglia, Norwich is famous for Dame Julian.
- Walsingham
A famous Catholic shrine that is experiencing a revival of pilgrimages.
- Wymondham
The magnificent abbey is only one of Wymondham's many attractions.
- Sutton Hoo
Sutton Hoo is the site of a famous royal ship burial.
- Bury St Edmunds
The city grew up on the site of the burial of a martyred English king called Edmund.
- Swaffham
Swaffham's church owes much to a peddlar who had a dream.
- Spaldwick
A lovely chuch built by wool but now gently decaying.
- Crowland
St Guthlac found solitude here and lots of demons - mosquitoes?
- Haverhill
A commuter town for Cambridge, it was also the home of Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII's unwanted wife.
- Saffron Walden
Once the centre of saffron growing, this little village preserves a wonderful turf maze
- Lower Halstow
A nonentity of a village, distinguished only for its Martichora
- Chatham
Once one of the most important of Britain's naval bases, today it lives on past glories
- Deal
Julius Caesar liked the place so much he landed here from Gaul
- St Augustine
Where St Augustine landed, bringing Roman Christianity to Britain
- London
Britain's capital city, which really deserves a site all to itself. We present a few tastes of the metropolis.
- Cambridge
Home of the most famous university in the world, Cambridge was also the seat of the Protestant Reformation in England.
- Boston
Boston's chief claim to fame is the Pilgrim Fathers, none of whom came from here!
- Runnymede
A pleasant meadow beside the River Thames is all there is to see on the spot where King John signed Magna Carta
- Hilton
Hilton has a beautiful church, a nearly dry ford and a turf maze constructed by a secret royalist
- Woodham Mortimer
A church half a mile from its village, a patron who never attended, and some dubious ethics.
- Lunt Fort
A small Roman fort with a unique feature.
- Coventry
Destroyed during World War II, Coventry has been rebuilt, not always as happily as its cathedral.
- Whitby
Whitby is the home of James Cook and the site of an important Synod that determined the future of the English church.
- Chesterfield
Chesterfield is famous because of some mediaeval builders who skimped on their work by using green wood.
- Goodmanham
When Coifi hurled his spear he changed Yorkshire forever.
- York
York is rich in old buildings, but we feature a very brave woman.
- Wharram Percy
There are many deserted mediaeval villages in Britain, but few have been excavated like Wharram Percy.
- Flamborough Head
Where a cheeky Yankee privateer in a beat-up ship met the pride of the British navy - and won!
- Wheeldale
Wheeldale Moor is a splendid piece of wild moorland, across which marches the line of a Roman road.
- Angel
The Angel of the North towers over the A1 near Gateshead.
- Jarrow
Home of the Venerable Bede.
- Middlesborough
Middlesborough is a fairly depressing industrial town but it has firm roots in the Industrial Revolution
- Escomb
A Saxon church in a charming village setting.
- Neville's Cross
English bows beat Scottish schiltrons.
- Northallerton
Northallerton is a place to pass through rapidly, but it was the site of a famous battle.
- Eyam
The plague village of Eyam is famous because of the self-sacrifice of its inhabitants.
- Lichfield
Lichfield is a charming cathedral city dating back to the days of St Chad.
- Leamington Spa
Leamington Spa was one of the most fashionable places in Britain once. Today it is genteel and decaying.
- Kidderminster
Once known as the wickedest town in England, Kidderminster was transformed by one man.
- Great Whitley
A splendid ruin and an odd cherub.
- Worcester
The cathedral city of Worcester, where both King John and Prince Arthur were buried.
- Edvin Ralph
A sleepy little village that was once the scene of a desperate duel to the death.
- Kinver
More famous for the high ridge of Kinver Edge, Kinver is a lovely little village.
- Cirencester
Bloody grass and a man with a hammer.
- Gloucester
Gloucester is a charming cathedral town with considerable historical interest
- Skew Bridge
Skewed bridges are a feature of Britain's early canals and railways, but none as crooked as this one.
- Bromyard
Bromyard is a small market town that boasts a risque clock.
- Tenbury Wells
Tenbury is a charming little town; in its church is the tomb of a man who thought he would be famous.
- Burford
This beautiful little hamlet is enough to make any man homesick, though whether everyone would go to these lengths.
- Buxworth
The fascinating custom of Well-dressing.
- Anderton
The Anderton Lift is a remarkable piece of Industrial Revolution engineering.
- Edgmond
A commuter village that preserves a curious ancient custom.
- Rowton
This tiny village is making the most of its slender claim to fame.
- Longdon-upon-Tern
A non-descript little village whose only claim to fame lies rusting in the fields.
- Leominster
Leominster is a lovely little town, but here we feature a school for handicapped children.
- Hereford
The county town with many interesting features, one of the least known of which features in our film.
- Monklands
Hymns Ancient and Modern is such a part of Anglican church life that it is a surprise to discover that it started in this little village.
- Acton Burnell
Out in the Shropshire countryside is a ruined castle that was once the hub of England's politics.
- Montford Church
A small country church in whose yard a respected doctor from nearby Shrewsbury chose to be buried.
- Craven Arms
A tiny town that is trying to establish itself as a tourist destination.
- Wigmore
When a crow tells you what to preach, the wise vicar will listen.
- Bishop's Castle
The Welsh borders had many castles; this one was owned by a bishop.
- Shrewsbury
A thriving town whose most famous son is a figment of the imagination.
- Offa's Dyke
This earthwork was once the border between England and Wales
- Chester
Chester is a beautiful walled market town, filled with fake half-timbered buildings.
- Whittington
The home of the man who gave rise to endless pantomime plays.
- Tiverton
A charming market town that pioneered the wedding march.
- Rufus Stone
Was it a lucky accident or deliberate murder? Or was there something even more sinister afoot?
- Wilfrid's Gift
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day - at least, that's what Wilfrid thought.
- Maiden Castle
The largest earthworks in Britain were no match for Roman skill.
- West Quantoxhead
When the church lacked an organist, they turned to mechanical music.
- Tintagel
Tintagel is one of the key sites for the Arthurian legend hunter.
- Settle
The start point of the world-famous Settle to Carlisle railway.
- Ribchester
A beautiful little village with a lovely church and interesting museum.
- Otterburn
The Battle of Otterburn was a resounding defeat for the English.
- Yeavering
Thirty-six days of baptising without a break left Paulinus wet and exhausted - but happy
- Kirk Newtown
It took a woman, a most unusual and determined woman, to undo the terrible consequences of the law man passed
- Burgh-by-Sands
Lonely Burgh Marsh was once crowded with 20,000 men and a dying king.
- Hardknott Castle
Hardknott Castle is one of the most dramatic Roman forts in the world.