The facility got an influx of new tenants in 2017, when the military relocated tortoises to make way for a controversial expansion of the base’s training grounds.

And while visitors have always been attracted to Cartmel for its 800-year-old priory, its racecourse and its famous dessert, people living here have seen a shift from seasonal influx to year-round flow.

An influx of temporary workers, international students and refugees helped push the country’s population from 38 million to 41 million in three years.

Fruitcakes came to America with the European colonists, and the rising tide of emigration from Britain to New England closely mirrored an influx of cheap sugar from the Caribbean.

The influx of temporary workers, international students and refugees helped the economy recover in the short term — and helped push the country’s population from 38 million to 41 million.