Bognor Regis

Bognor Regis got its 'Regis' off George V, who used what felt like his dying breath to tell it to bugger off. The town took the curse as a compliment, slapped it on the welcome signs, and has been leaning into the joke ever since. This is where Billy Butlin trialled the holiday-camp formula before deciding Skegness was more his colour, and where a chunk of the 1944 floating harbour washed up on the beach and just stayed there because nobody could be bothered to move it. Honest seaside, no apologies, no Margate-style reinvention, no pretending it's Chichester.