Moffat

It made its money as a spa from the seventeenth century onwards, when people came to take the sulphurous water, and it spent that money on a high street wide enough for carriages to turn in, lined with hotels and coaching inns. The ram on the fountain in the middle of it was given by William Colvin in 1875 to mark what the district actually lived on, which was wool, and it famously has no ears. The town will tell you the sculptor hanged himself over the omission; he did not, and died at home in Edinburgh six years later. Across the street is the Star Hotel, twenty feet wide and a hundred and sixty long, which the Guinness Book of Records has as the narrowest hotel in the world - built that way, it is thought, because frontage was taxed. The hills start at the end of the street.