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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Northamptonshire

…The immediate prospects are not particularly impressive and Numbers 18 to 22 (NN1 2LU) may not strike the visitor as very significant. Recently, the premises included a gents’ hairdresser, a…

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Nottinghamshire

…interrupting the service and denouncing the minister. Not surprisingly, he was arrested and sentenced to a spell in prison – the first of many. A similar incident at Derby a…

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Sussex

…the town, he attended a Sunday morning service, probably in the Dome, now a large complex near the Pavilion used as a theatre, museum and art gallery. Unable to bear…

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Devon

…to thy cross I cling.   BROADHEMBURY Toplady memorial Along the broad main street, thatched cottages outnumber conventional ones by at least five to one. In 1768, Augustus Toplady was…

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Bristol

…terraces lead up from College Green to the University.  There used to be a plaque on number 43, marking the site of the school. Hannah More’s house In the nearby…

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Hereford & Worcester

…Baxter left the town in 1660, he entrusted the care of his flock to Thomas Baldwin, the first minister of what is now the Baxter United Reformed Church (DY10 2DG)….

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Lincolnshire

United Reformed John Robinson Memorial Church (DN21 2JR) opened in 1896. A stone in memory of John Robinson, pastor and exile was laid by T. F. Bayard, the American ambassador…

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Staffordshire

…and West Bromwich. It was the boyhood home of Francis Asbury (1745-1816), who is better known in the United States than Britain. In 1771, in response to an invitation by…

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Suffolk

…pamphlets by Robert Browne, the advocate of “separatism” or independency. In 1904, a smaller version of the martyrs’ column was placed outside the United Reformed Church in Whiting Street in…

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