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Mining finally came to a halt in the 19th century.

Of Queen's Park's 43 acres, thirteen came from the two landowners, and a further parcel was purchased from the Earl of Crewe in 1904 to provided a park keepers' cottage, a bandstand and a

Industry came early to Rugeley.

Well- known persons came to enjoy the air, that was thought to be on a par with Switzerland; they included George Bernard Shaw and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

This site has been in constant habitation since earliest days, and there was a moated village here before the Romans came.

This Thames-side town was once famed for its abbey, now almost entirely vanished; its stone was used for the building of Hampton Court.

Many shoppers came to the town every week from distant places to do their weekly shopping.

Charles Lamb, the essayist, came to live in the country town of Enfield two centuries ago.

Edinburgh was well served by its tramway system for 85 years; services came to an end in November 1956.

The church of St Edward the Confessor contains a medieval effigy of a crusader monk, which was found in the wall of nearby Netley Castle and probably came from Netley Abbey.

The present coastal footpath came into being as a patrol route for the coastguards who had the duty of intercepting illicit cargoes.

Prosperity came to Warrington along with industry in the 1800s, and this is reflected in the quality of all the town's commercial buildings.

The peaceful sea could be deceptive: a memorial in the church relates to nine local people who went boating one Sunday in 1799 and never came back.

Ingatestone's livelihood came from its position on the London-Chelmsford road.

A newer Shanklin grew up along the seashore to cater for the demands of both visitors and those who came to settle.

The bungalows along Church Road are fairly representative of the kind of housing to be seen in Laindon before the New Town came.

Public transport came early to Bournemouth, making the town a superb central location for visitors wishing to explore the locality.

When the railway came to Grange-over-Sands in 1857 it signalled the town's rapid expansion as a seaside resort for visitors from the industrial mill towns of Lancashire.

Legend has it that Mediterranean traders came here to Ictis (as the place was called then) to trade for tin.

Odiham's houses are a mixture of Georgian and Tudor; some are timber-framed, which was common before local bricks came into general use in the 18th century.

Punting became very much a ladies' pastime, and the fame of the 'English Punt Girl' spread far and wide.

The monument was erected to commemorate the Crimean War; as with most of such things, it came complete with captured Russian cannon.

The Havering manor was a crown manor from the time of Harold, of Hastings fame, until 1828.

Its claim to fame is the Barn Stone - a huge granite boulder swept down from Scotland during the last Ice Age.