London (City)

…was opened in City Road, and Wesley’s Chapel stands today as the mother church of world Methodism, with a statue of the founder in the cobbled forecourt and the inscription…

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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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London (Central)

…family from rural Wales to Westminster to start a grocery business, and during the First World War the teenaged Martyn would help with milk deliveries around the area, while continuing…

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Oxfordshire

…Christian still. For the last eight hundred years, men whose lives have shaped the church in England and across the world have studied, taught, prayed, preached and even been martyred…

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Northumberland

…633. With the death of Oswald, Northumbria was divided into two parts.  His brother Oswy (612-670) became king of Bernicia, while their cousin Oswin ruled over Deira.  Oswin continued to work…

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London (North & East)

…living by menial labour in the docks and factories.  Today, the efforts of the Luftwaffe and post-war slum clearance have transformed the landscape, so that whole street plans have disappeared…

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Suffolk

…commission in 1535 sounded the death knell of the monasteries. Today the ruins of the Abbey cover a large area in the historic centre of Bury on the west bank…

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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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Essex

…of the New World than in the spiritual convictions of the Pilgrims. He was deposed as leader of the community in favour of William Bradford, and his whole family group…

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Bedfordshire

the steep hill (perhaps the Hill Difficulty) on the road to Bedford.  Today, the house is a magnificent roofless ruin, but the setting is sublime and the view, despite the

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