Buckinghamshire

…Town lies along the river Misborne, with a broad main street, a market hall built in 1682, ancient inns, almshouses and wisteria-covered cottages.  Replace the cars with carriages and it…

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Bedfordshire

…in 1831, but restored to its original place in 1929 and is now called the Wesley Pulpit. From St Paul’s, the traffic-free Harpur Street leads to Bedford Central Library (MK40…

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London (City)

…Church Missionary Society all began in City churches. We tell their stories below.   ST PAUL’S CATHEDRAL St Paul’s Cathedral There has been a church dedicated to St Paul at…

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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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Nottinghamshire

…Road, and lived in the Manor House, a former palace of the Archbishops of York, where Cardinal Wolsey and Henry VIII had both spent time. Brewster himself attended Cambridge University…

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Cheshire

…its fine cathedral. Running in a two-mile circuit around the centre, the walls have sections up to seventeen feet high, some parts dating back to Roman times. Matthew Henry memorial

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Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire   CAMBRIDGE There has been a University at Cambridge since the foundation of Peterhouse College in 1284. Today the colleges – mostly spread along the banks of the sluggish…

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Somerset

camp in 878. Following his victory, he may also have built a monastery here. A monument to Alfred which can be seen on the ridge was built by the local

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Lincolnshire

…Robinson’s sister-in-law Catherine Carver sailed as wife of John Carver, the first Governor of the Plymouth colony. Old Hall interior By the mid-eighteenth century, the Old Hall had seen better…

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Suffolk

…of St James has been restored and enlarged as the Cathedral Church of St Edmundsbury (IP33 1LS). Next to this is the Norman Tower, behind which we can see the…

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