A new interactive map has been released which shows the most 'Wikipedia'ed' person in every town of the UK.

So who are the most searched for people in the Swadlincote area? We decided to take a look at the map for ourselves over the Christmas break.

For Swad itself, it is John Stuart Bloor OBE, (born 16 June 1943) whose business, Bloor Holdings, owns both Bloor Homes and Triumph Motorcycles.

Bloor left school at the age of 15 and first job was as a trainee plasterer for a local building contractor.

Two years later he set up his own business and began building his first house before he was 20.

His building company, Bloor Homes, is now one of the largest privately owned house builders in the UK, and has contributed to the successful regeneration of the East Midlands.

In 2002, housing sales reached 1,870 making Bloor Homes then the largest housebuilder to be owned by one man.

While attending the auction of the site of the former Triumph factory to buy the site for house construction, Bloor bought the collapsed Triumph brand in 1983.

After sub-licensing the brand for a period, he invested over £80 million into rebuilding the marque, opening the new Hinckley factory in 1991. After a factory fire in 2002 stopped production the factory was rebuilt, and now produces 46,000 motorcycles per annum.

In 2016, Bloor received the Diamond Jubilee Trophy on behalf of all the staff at Triumph Motorcycles. The Trophy has only been given out four times previously.

In 2018, Bloor was paid a £7 million dividend by Bloor Holdings, the company that owns Bloor Homes and Triumph.[10]

He lives in Swadlincote, but, due to hip problems, he rarely rides motorcycles, preferring a Range Rover.

According to the map, Newhall's most searched for person is Benjamin Warren (7 May 1879 – 15 January 1917), an England international footballer who played as a half-back for Derby County and Chelsea.

Born in Newhall, Derbyshire, Warren began his playing career with Derby County, whose secretary-manager had spotted him playing in a junior match.

Playing at half-back, though he could also fill in at inside forward, Warren was known for his hard but fair tackling, and for his consistent performances. He scored eight goals in seven FA Cup matches to help Derby reach the semi-finals of the competition in 1902; he also helped Derby reach the final a year later, though they lost 6–0 to Bury.

He emerged as one of England's highest-rated half-backs, winning his first cap against Ireland in 1906. He made 242 Football League appearances for Derby, scoring 19 goals.

Warren signed for David Calderhead's Chelsea in July 1908 and made his debut against Preston North End. He retained his place in the England side, but once again the closest he came to success with a club was in the FA Cup, playing in every game for Chelsea en route to the semi-finals in 1911, where they lost to Newcastle United.

In 101 matches, he scored five goals for Chelsea. After making his England debut, he played in the next 19 matches for his country, a run only ended by injury, and finished his career with 22 caps and 2 goals, one of which came during England's first overseas tour.

A knee injury sustained while playing for Chelsea in a 4–1 win over Clapton Orient ended Warren's career and led to a decline in his mental health.

Faced with a long lay-off, and with a young family to support in the days before footballers were well-paid, Warren suffered a mental breakdown and began to be plagued by hallucinations and delusions he was being poisoned; by 1912 he had been admitted to a lunatic asylum in Mickleover, Derbyshire.

His condition deteriorated to such an extent that he was placed on suicide watch. He died of tuberculosis while still an inmate of the asylum in 1917.

Church Gresley's most wiki'd person is Albert Leslie Knighton (15 March 1887 – 10 May 1959) who was an English football manager.

He managed Arsenal, Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic, Birmingham, Chelsea and Shrewsbury Town.

Knighton was born in Church Gresley but his own playing career was cut short by injury, after which he moved into coaching and management.

He first had spells as an assistant manager at Manchester City (1909–12) and Huddersfield Town (1912–19) – and was briefly caretaker manager of the latter in 1912.

In 1919 Knighton was appointed secretary-manager of Arsenal, shortly after the club had been promoted to the First Division.

He oversaw the club for six years, but Arsenal never finished higher than mid-table, their best finish during his tenure being ninth in 1920-21.

Neither did Arsenal do well in the FA Cup under Knighton - in only one season, 1921-22, did Arsenal get beyond the second round of the competition, eventually losing to Preston North End in a quarter-final replay.

During his time at Arsenal, Knighton had numerous fallings-out with Arsenal chairman Sir Henry Norris; Norris put a strict cap of £1,000 on transfer fees and refused to sign any player under 5'8" tall or eleven stone.

When Knighton signed the 5' tall Hugh "Midget" Moffatt from Workington in 1923, Norris was furious when he found out; he overruled his manager and promptly sold the player to Luton Town before he'd played a League game.

To get round Norris's rules, Knighton used his guile to sign some unusual transfers, such as the amateurs Reg Boreham and Jimmy Paterson - the latter was the Arsenal club doctor's brother-in-law, and went on to play nearly 80 games for Arsenal.

Despite Norris's interfering, Knighton, thanks to an informal scouting system of his friends and former colleagues in the North, signed several high-quality players for Arsenal; these included Bob John, Jimmy Brain and Alf Baker, all of whom would be part of Arsenal's trophy-winning side of the early 1930s.

However, he could never knit together a solid winning side and Arsenal's performances gradually declined towards the end of his tenure; they finished 19th in 1923-24 and 20th in 1924-25.[2]

The most searched for person from Overseal is Joseph Wilkes (1733–1805) an 18th-century English industrialist and agricultural improver.

He was born in Overseal but was more commonly associated with Measham.

From a farming family, Wilkes was one of the leading businessmen in the area during the early part of the Industrial Revolution in England.

Joseph Wilkes' business enterprises were many and varied, and during his lifetime he transformed Measham from a tiny mining village to a model settlement of the Industrial Revolution.

Purchasing the manor with his brothers from William Wollaston in 1777 for £56,000, he undertook the development and expansion of the village, opening a bank, an inn, building factories, a boat yard, a market house and a vicarage, and constructing affordable housing for his workers. Many signs of this development are still visible today.

To commemorate Wilkes, a mosaic sundial displaying many of his enterprises, by the artist Steve Field, has been constructed near Wilkes Avenue in Measham.

One aspect of this industrial development was the mining of hard-crude-coal, that important mineral which was to fuel the furnaces of the Industrial revolution sweeping the nation at that time.

In 1767 Wilkes leased the rights from William Wollaston to mine coal in Measham area, he later went on to own collieries in Measham, Oakthorpe, Donisthorpe, Moira and Brinsley in Nottinghamshire.

Wilkes sunk many new pits, employing Newcomen engines to pump water from their works which allowed coal to be mined at much greater depths.

He also went on to employ steam winding gear at his Oakthorpe colliery which allowed men to be transported down, and coal to be brought up from the coalface more efficiently.

To connect these collieries to the wider markets made available by the canals, Wilkes laid down horse-drawn iron tramways which made the movement of heavy loads of coal overland far more cost effective.

In the area of textiles Wilkes collaborated with at one time, Sir Robert Peel in building cotton mills in Tamworth and Fazeley.

He also leased and improved a bleach mill on the river Mease in 1774 and constructed huge cotton and carding mills in Measham and Ashby de la Zouch, harnessing water wheels and the latest Boulton and Watt steam engines to drive their apparatus.

He also initiated local cottage industries, building many weaving shops in Measham and Appleby Magna.

In an effort to improve the transport links and open up the area to distant markets, he was active in building a coaching inn and turnpike roads in and around Measham, These he built along his own design, using a 'concave surface' which was more durable and easier to maintain.

He was also active in developing other transport networks, water transport being the most cost effective means of bulk shipment in those days, he was a member of a consortium calling itself the "Burton Boat Company" which leased the rights to make the River Trent navigable to barges in 1762.

In the latter part of his life he was a promoter, and at one time treasurer, of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal.

Obviously well aware of the economic benefits the canal would bring to the district, Wilkes pushed local landowners such as the Earl of Moira to expedite its completion and was also to supply bricks for its construction.

The canal was originally intended to link the Coventry Canal to the River Trent, it was finally completed over budget in 1804 and unfortunately never lived up to expectations.

Wilkes also saw the early potential in another means of transportation which was eventually to supersede the canals, namely, railways. Before the advent of the steam locomotive, horse-drawn carts on iron rails were the most efficient means of moving heavy loads overland.

Wilkes promoted the use of these tramways in his article "On the Utility of Iron Rail-Ways"(1800),[4] and in conjunction with Benjamin Outram was to construct iron tramways connecting his collieries to canals.

These buildings in Measham are constructed with Joseph Wilkes' double sized 'Jumb' or 'Gob' bricks and were originally part of his brickyard, The ground floor sheds were originally the brick-drying sheds, whilst the upper floors were used as weaving sheds.

Many buildings of Wilkes' empire were built with bricks manufactured by his own brickyard in Measham, including his Jumb or Gob bricks, for which he is well known.

These double sized bricks were manufactured between 1784 and 1803 and were intended to lessen the burden of the brick tax, which was levied on every thousand bricks used. A few buildings exhibiting Wilkes' signature recessed arches and his oversized bricks can still be seen in Measham and the surrounding area today.

Wilkes was a keen agricultural experimenter and improver and was described by the agricultural writer Arthur Young as "a breeder, and a farmer on no slight scale" and John Farey writing in 1815 lamented "Would that every district in Britain had its Joseph Wilkes! in which case we need not import Corn, even for our increased population, or be half so dependent on foreign nations as we are".

Intent on improving the productivity of his farmland and not adverse to trying new methods, he experimented with different ways of fertilising his soils, advocating the deep ploughing and burning of the soil, and even experimenting with fertilising his land by throwing over water pumped from his mines. Wilkes also constructed a series of irrigation canals in the area around Measham and was a firm believer in using new farming machinery, such as Cooke's Horse-hoe.

In animal husbandry Wilkes experimented in techniques for storing animals underground, fed from overhead hoppers, he was also interested in the new science of selective breeding, being a member of the Leicestershire tup society, inaugurating the Smithfield Club and breeding one of Robert Bakewell's celebrated rams.

Wilkes was born into a large and moderately well off family in 1733. His father, also named Joseph Wilkes, was a yeoman farmer, and owned a farm in Overseal.

Wilkes married Elizabeth Wood from Burton upon Trent in 1759. Wilkes' married life was relatively short, as his wife Elizabeth died in 1767.

Although his only son did not survive past infancy, some of his daughters did grow up and were married; Joyce and Matilda married, respectively, brothers Rev.

Thomas Fisher, of Idlicote, Warwickshire, and Rev. John Fisher, lord of the manor and rector of Higham on the Hill. They were sons of Thomas Fisher, of Caldecote Hall, Leicestershire, the Fisher family coming originally from Foremark, Derbyshire. Matilda and John Fisher were great-grandparents of Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1945 to 1961.