Sandwich, Kent

Sandwich is a port that lost the sea and has spent centuries acting as if it only stepped out for a minute. The mayor still wears black in mourning for a French raid in the fifteenth century, which tells you how long a grudge keeps inside these walls. Viagra was developed on the edge of town and two championship golf courses sit down the road, so the place has quietly catered to retired men's two main interests. Every visitor makes the lunch joke within a minute of arriving, to a town that found a spare Magna Carta in its own archives and was too polite to mention it.