The portrait bench in Penarth Marina features Primary school pupil 10-year-old Tim Burns, as well as Vale-born Olympic cycling gold medallist Nicole Cooke and former St Cyres pupil and Paralympic gold medallist Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson

Olympic gold medallist Nicola Adams, war hero and the first black football player for Tottenham Hotspur, Walter Tull, and the 'father of meteorology', Luke Howard

Sybil Williams, the founder member of Pedal Power, was chosen along with Cardiff Devils player, Jason Stone and local school pupil

From right to left these are: a representative salt worker or 'lump man' from the nineteenth century; Paula Radcliffe, marathon runner, who grew up in Northwich and set a new Marathon World Record at the London Marathon 2003; Gary Barlow, singer, born in nearby Frodsham, lead singer with Take That

The portrait benches represent Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who brought the South Devon Railway to Newton Abbot in 1846; Dr Ivy Williams, who was born in Newton Abbot and became England's first female barrister in 1921; and a clay cutter, representing the local ball clay industry

The artwork commemorates three local people: Corporal Liam Riley, Colin Savage and Clinton Woods.

three important local figures: Dame Gracie Fields; Harriet Ellis (world champion windsurfer) and Lynne Coxell (headteacher of St Edward's CE Primary school).

A Roman woman – there was a fort at Regulbium close to where Reculver Towers stand today; an oyster fisherman – oysters have been farmed in the area since Roman times, and the Whitstable Oyster thrives in the Thames Estuary water, and is celebrated by the annual Whitstable Oyster Festival; and Warner (‘Bill’) Ottley, the pilot who flew on the Dams Raid (617 Squadron RAF) and was shot down near Hamm.

The subjects here are Beryl Burton, OBE (a champion cyclist), Nicola Adams, MBE (an Olympic boxer), and, chosen by local children, a water vole.

Cut-out silhouettes of local personalities Ronnie Corbett, Dame Peggy Ashcroft and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor stand beside a bench.

three local people chosen by a public vote – 1. Roman Soldier, 2. Norman Fay, 3. Sarah Millican.

endurance athlete and fundraiser Steve Prescott, the comedian Johnny Vegas and an anonymous glass blower.

The three characters on Dover's portrait bench are: Jamie Clark (22) overcome personal difficulties to become the town's first torchbearer on 18 July 2012 as part of the Olympic Torch Relay. Dame Vera Lynn, DBE, has been synonymous with Dover thanks to the wartime classic song 'The White Cliffs of Dover'. Ian Fleming, the author of the James Bond series of spy novels

Locomotive engineer Sir Daniel Gooch, Peoples Animal Welfare Service fundraiser; Mary Weightman, MBE; and local medical doctor John Brown, MBE.

designs by local pupils Charlotte Smith (Edith Cavell), Rufus Child (Nelson) and Peter Allen (Stephen Fry)

Edward Langley Fardon 1839–1926, an accomplished whitesmith and engineer; John Kemp Starley 1854–1901, maker of the Rover Safety Bicycle, a chain-driven bicycle; and Helen Martin 1907–1988, Warwick University’s 'Unknown Benefactor'

Northamtonshire poet John Clare (1793–1864); the Glaswegian designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1928) who built a property nearby; and W. J. Bassett Lowke (1877–1953), a Northampton engineer.

Welsh mountain sheep, Hereford cattle and Jim Shankland, auctioneer's assistant, are depicted in this portrait bench

The statues were of three local heroes: a machinist of the Dagenham Ford strike of 1968; Elm Park solider, Warrant Officer Ian Fisher, who gave his life while serving in Afghanistan in 2013; and musician Billy Bragg.

Sir Robert Barr of Barr Soft Drinks, the makers of Scotland’s Irn Bru, Dr Harold Lyon, the founder of Strathcarron Hospice and Reg Adams MBE, former coach with Grangemouth Amateur Swimming Club.

These depict a town crier hailing the news, King James I holding a Royston Crow, and, Classical BRIT award winner, trumpeter Alison Balsom, who grew up in the town and attended Royston’s local schools.