Cambridgeshire

…Pembroke included Ridley’s fellow Protestants John Bradford (1510-1555) and John Rogers (c1500-1555), who both perished in the fires of Smithfield during Mary’s reign. Bradford was ordained by Ridley and became…

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London (Central)

…and died in 1873 at Chitambo, in present-day Zambia. His faithful African servants Susi and Chuma buried his heart at the spot, but embalmed his body and carried it to…

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Yorkshire (South & West)

…convictions of the Pilgrims; Bradford regarded him as arrogant and profane. Despite his youth and apparent good health, he was the only person who died during the actual voyage. He…

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Oxfordshire

…road and is privately owned. The odd arrangement of windows suggests many alterations over the years. Ellwood suffered several periods of imprisonment for his beliefs and, reduced to poverty and…

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London (South)

…4,000, but frequently 6,000 crowded in, many happy to stand. The building burned down in 1898, when Spurgeon’s son was pastor, and was again severely damaged in World War II….

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Bristol

…in good stead all his life.  One day with no food on the table and no money to buy any, he led his family in prayers for their “daily bread”. …

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Staffordshire

…for London with his pupil David Garrick, where they achieved fame as writer and actor respectively. The scientist and philosopher Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles, lived in the Cathedral Close….

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Bedfordshire

…blocked off.  To Bunyan’s vivid imagination the two doors were a visible parable of the broad and narrow ways.  The little door became the Wicket Gate of Pilgrim’s Progress.  The…

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Gloucestershire

…and for the Word of God, not accepting deliverance, John Hooper D.D. Bishop of Gloucester and Worcester was burned to ashes on this spot February IX Anno Domini MDLV (GL1…

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Suffolk

…put an end to persecution. For some, her protestant settlement did not go far enough and Elias Thacker and John Copping were hanged in the town in 1583 for distributing…

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