Bedfordshire

…long spiritual journey.   Abbey Church of St Mary and St Helena Wicket Gate, Elstow The Abbey (MK42 9XT) was originally a nunnery founded by a niece of William the…

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London (City)

…Church Missionary Society for thirty critical years. He personally examined nearly five hundred clergy who were sent abroad on missionary service. St Paul’s dome and cross Towards the western end…

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London (North & East)

…friendly atmosphere.  The ground floor has a general display reflecting social changes in Whitechapel, Stepney and Bethnal Green, the area now known by the clumsy collective name of Tower Hamlets. …

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Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire   OLNEY The broad main street of Olney comes to life each year with a Shrove Tuesday pancake race between the ladies of the town and those of Liberal,…

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Somerset

…by Nash, who demanded by what authority he was acting. Wesley recorded the celebrated encounter in his diary. Their altercation was finally ended by the intervention of an old woman:…

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Suffolk

lay for 33 years before being taken to Bury St Edmunds. Edmund (841-870), a contemporary of Alfred the Great, was born in Saxony, but adopted by King Offa of Mercia….

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Cambridgeshire

…thirty-one. In the century before Simeon’s arrival, two distinguished puritans preached at Holy Trinity. Richard Sibbes (1577-1635) was lecturer from 1610 to 1620, attracting large numbers of students away from…

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Derbyshire

…memorial slab to Thomas Stanley was erected by a subsequent vicar who perhaps felt that his part in the plague story had not been fully recognized. Plague Cottages Immediately next…

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Hertfordshire

…of Exeter from 1885 to 1900. He is remembered for the devotional hymn Peace, perfect peace and also a long visionary poem Yesterday, today and forever. Edward Henry’s wife Rosa…

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London (Central)

…not Eros at all but the Angel of Christian Charity, a memorial to Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (1801-1885). Shaftesbury was a Tory aristocrat, whose practical Christian faith…

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