Northamptonshire

…existed here for centuries. One of that trade was William Carey, who started life as a cobbler’s apprentice at fourteen ended it as a famous linguist, orientalist and missionary pioneer….

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Buckinghamshire

…the Cowper-Newton Museum (MK47 4AJ). The Hareflap From the front the house looks uniform, but from behind it appears as two cottages with a linking wall.  The left half of…

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Cambridgeshire

approach has been adopted. The stained glass portraits filling the windows include St Augustine (of Hippo, not Canterbury), scholar and archbishop Anselm, protestant martyr Thomas Cranmer alongside Catholic martyr John…

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Hampshire

…the Danes was finally achieved, he devoted himself to scholarship and founding monastic institutions to extend and promote the faith across his realm.   The Cathedral Winchester Cathedral The cathedral…

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Hereford & Worcester

…of that building was destroyed by fire in 1113. Wulfstan entered the monastery at Worcester and successively held the positions of schoolmaster, precentor, sacristan and prior. He was appointed bishop…

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Suffolk

…(IP21 5AL). Apparently, when the tree fell down in 1843, an arrowhead was found embedded in the trunk. Abbey Farm nearby is the site of the church where his body…

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Norfolk

…the North of the city centre is Magdalen Street, with its exotic mixture of Asian restaurants, second-hand shops and ethnic arts emporia. The area has a rather down-at-heel appearance, but…

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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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Devon

…created bishoprics. In 746 he was appointed Archbishop of Mainz, with authority over a wide area including the dioceses of Worms, Cologne and Utrecht. He was on good terms with…

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London (North & East)

…hymns provides an appropriate epitaph Ages unborn shall make his songs the joy and labour of their tongues. William Booth’s grave At the southern end of the cemetery, close to…

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