Rutland

Rutland   After some years subsumed into the neighbouring county of Leicestershire, Rutland has once more emerged as a county in its own right, albeit the smallest in England. Places…

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Cambridgeshire

…the congregations to stand, and the streets around the church were the scene of riots and disorder. Slowly attitudes changed, and services attracted large numbers of students. Simeon moulded the…

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Gloucestershire

…popularity. But the Oxford Movement, which began as a defence of the principles of the Church of England, ended as a headlong flight from the doctrines of the Reformation, with…

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Wiltshire

…about 1010 a monk called Eilmer built himself wings and jumped from the tower of the abbey – possibly the earliest reference to human flight! Aldhelm and William are depicted…

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Yorkshire (North)

…included Oswy’s wife and son and James the Deacon, who had bravely carried on after the flight of Paulinus thirty years before. When Oswy eventually decided in favour of the…

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Buckinghamshire

…door on the south side which gave access to a marquee which could accommodate the large number of students who rode out from Oxford to hear him preach. Scott’s grandson…

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Leicestershire

…beneath the open skies. While many of her guests remained sceptical or indifferent, a small but significant number became committed Christians. She tried to remain within the confines of the…

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London (South)

…arrived as rector of Holy Trinity Church in 1792, he drew to the area a number of wealthy and influential evangelical laymen, known to their contemporaries and to history as…

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Somerset

…circle. She appointed several leading preachers as her chaplains and built a number of chapels which eventually grew into a small denomination known as the Countess of Huntingdon’s New Connexion….

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