London (North & East)

…under new housing blocks, although elegant Georgian terraces survive in some places.  The area is now multiracial and multicultural and while the stark poverty of the past has gone, it…

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Kent

…churchyard gives useful information on the whole site including St Augustine’s Abbey nearby.   St Augustine’s Abbey St Augustine’s abbey According to tradition, this was the site of King Ethelbert’s…

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London (City)

…SEPULCHRE-WITHOUT-NEWGATE St Sepulchre without Newgate The Church of the Holy Sepulchre (known as St Sepulchre’s) stands on Newgate Street, across from the Old Bailey, once the site of Newgate Prison….

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Durham

…to worship at Cuthbert’s shrine suffered a corresponding decline. The Church of St Mary and St Cuthbert (DH3 3QB) now stands on the site of the original shrine and volunteers…

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Bristol

…world.  Even Nelson Mandela attended a Wesleyan College in South Africa!  The school continued at Kingswood until 1852, when it removed to a new site in Bath, where it continues…

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Northumberland

…which is flooded at high tide (TD15 2PB).  Consult the tide tables before you cross or you may find yourself cut off for several hours. Lindisfarne Gospels tapestry It was…

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Bedfordshire

…has a stone tower with one bell and was extensively restored in the nineteenth century.  Next to it is Gifford’s rectory, an ancient building, now used as the local headquarters…

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Cambridgeshire

…portraits of the Cromwell family, together with books, letters, armour, miniatures and paintings of Civil War battle scenes. One of the finest treasures is a beautiful Florentine cabinet with stone

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Suffolk

…around his shrine on the site of an earlier foundation dating from 633. Abbey Gateway and Cathedral When the Danes under Sweyn Forkbeard again threatened in 1010, Edmund’s body was…

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London (South)

news to the poor. Most of those who came recognised the need to feed bodies as well as save souls, and were active in a wide range of philanthropic ventures….

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