Notable People
- Colin Earl, Artist and Media Cartoonist.
- Jack Dee, comedian and winner of Celebrity Big Brother 2001
- Ian Mortimer, historian
- William Willett, promoter of Daylight Saving
- Major Phil Packer, is a British soldier who was rendered paraplegic in 2008 by injuries sustained while serving in Iraq. He has since raised over a million pounds through charitable fundraising efforts which have garnered him several national awards.
- David Nobbs, Comedy writer and the creator of the successful 1970s sitcom The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
- Cerrie Burnell, Actress, singer, playwright, and television presenter for the BBC children's channel CBeebies.
- Sir Geraint Evans, Welsh baritone or bass-baritone noted for operatic roles including Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro, Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, and the title roles in Falstaff and Wozzeck.
- Charles De Gaulle, French General and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II. He rented a home there for four months before moving his family further inland to Shropshire later in 1940.
- John Loveday Physicist
- Dame Antoinette Sibley DBE British Prima Ballerina
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