Our booking engine at tickets.railforums.co.uk (powered by TrainSplit) helps support the running of the forum with every ticket purchase! Find out more and ask any questions/give us feedback in this thread!
Henry VIII built Pendennis Castle to defend Falmouth and Carrick Roads. He also built Hurst Castle at Keyhaven in Hampshire to defend the Solent from the west.
A school was built at Tiptoe at the beginning of the 20th century as a replacement for an earlier school in nearby Wootton (a hamlet in the civil parish of New Milton in Hampshire), which burned down in 1914.
Latheron Castle is said to have been build in about 1190 by Harald ungi Eiriksson, Earl of Orkney. Harald was killed in 1198 by his co-Earl, Harald Maddadsson, at the Battle of Wick. In those days the lordship of Orkney was disputed between Scotland and Norway and they appointed joint earls who evidently didn't always get on!!
Swanage is stated as the home town of JohnCleese's character Basil Fawlty in the sitcom Fawlty Towers. As is well known, the series is set in Fawlty Towers, a fictional hotel in the seaside town of Torquay in Devon.
Creswell has a model village created by the Duke of Portland, the local colliery owner, for the miners and their families. Saltaire, created by Titus Salt, is probably the most famous model village in the UK.
Cheltenham is often associated with the Gold Cup horse race. A different kind of gold cup was found in Rillaton barrow in Linkinhorne parish, Cornwall. This one was made somewhere between 2300 and 1700 BC, possibly in Greece.
Strathpeffer is sometimes referred to as "the Highland Village of Music". A rough equivalent in East Anglia is Aldeburgh, Suffolk.