Considered the Monaco of its day in the 19th century, anyone who was anyone, from Kings to Maharajas, came to stay in what was the ‘capital of fox hunting’.
It’s a town where Saxon coins were minted during the reign of King Aethelred II, where a market recorded in the Domesday Book is still held each Tuesday, and where Edward VIII’s royal fate was sealed when he met Wallis Simpson.
Why not plan your visit, and retrace the steps of its many royal visitors, from Richard I to Charles III.