"I've started 36 companies in eight countries, and I never did anything more difficult than this," said Mr. Fernandez, a native of Colombia who lives in nearby Bedford.

Situated on the main route between nearby Bedford and Milton Keynes, the village was bypassed by the A422 in April 1992, to allow the increasing amount of traffic to avoid the necessary 30 mph speed limit that persists in Stagsden to this day.

The film, however, was largely filmed in nearby Bedford and Lexington with only a few shots on location in actual Woburn.

He resided in nearby Bedford.

"The space is beautiful," said Meg Barnes, a market research consultant from nearby Bedford who frequents the restaurant.

The pretty desserts are imported from a pastry shop in nearby Bedford.

Speaking of celebrities, imagine being alone in a Kinko's copy center in an essentially empty strip shopping center in sleepy Mount Kisco at 3 A.M. and in walks Ralph Lauren from nearby Bedford.

In April, 2004 children of Boonsboro Elementary School in nearby Bedford, Virginia and the local Kiwanis group in Lynchburg, Virginia teamed to raise funds and work to save the only surviving original (circa 1910) class C-1 wooden Caboose.

"Where the horses go, so goes the open space," said Carol Goldberg, a real estate agent with Vincent & Whittemore in nearby Bedford and co-president of the Open Land Foundation.

Episcopalians in Katonah were organized in 1855 as St. Mark's, under the pastoral care of St. Matthew's Church in nearby Bedford.