Cambridgeshire

…links with the early history of America, as former students included the “New England Three” – John Cotton, Thomas Hooker and Thomas Shepard – who all emigrated to the fledgling…

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London (City)

…revival. Romaine was a lecturer at St Dunstan’s-in-the-West from 1749 and also held lectureships at several other London churches. Until the arrival of John Newton at St Mary Woolnoth in…

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London (South)

Alphege. Hoping for a substantial ransom, they held him prisoner for seven months, but Alphege himself forbade the payment of any additional sums. On 19th April 1012, he was beaten

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Bedfordshire

…Swan Hotel coincided with the demolition of Houghton House, near Ampthill, the model for Bunyan’s House Beautiful.  Its magnificent staircase was acquired for the hotel and can be seen in…

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Bristol

Bristol   John Wesley statue, Broadmead Served by several motorways and linked to Wales by two vast suspension bridges, Bristol is the unofficial capital of the west of England.  Before…

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Devon

…a network of streets from Tudor times has been preserved, and we can visit the Elizabethan House and Garden in New Street. New Street, Plymouth For a few days in…

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Essex

…men who followed them to New England within a few years – Thomas Hooker and John Eliot. Two centuries later, Puritan teaching sprang to life again in the person of…

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Lincolnshire

…surround lies near the east end of the church. The relationship between the church and the subsequent ministry of John and Charles was not always amicable. When, four years after…

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Hereford & Worcester

…the quintessential image of an English cathedral city. The tomb of King John, reluctant signatory of Magna Carta, is here, as is that of Prince Arthur, elder brother of Henry…

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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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