Somerset

FROME Frome lies on the side of a hill and halfway down busy Bath Street is a stone archway leading to the churchyard of St John the Baptist (BA11 1PL)….

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Buckinghamshire

…could be the set for another Jane Austen TV series.  Amersham-on-the-Hill is mostly modern and grew up around the railway station half a mile away. Amersham Old Town Amersham became…

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Surrey

…scene of John Wesley’s last sermon and the birthplace of a famous hymn writer are about all it has to offer.   LEATHERHEAD Wesley Plaque John Wesley preached his last…

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Essex

…Spurgeon as Baptist preacher and philanthropist. At the time of his birth, Spurgeon’s father John Spurgeon was pastor of a congregational church at Tollesbury, some ten miles away. Spurgeon only…

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Lincolnshire

way round. The Wesley children seemed unconcerned and nicknamed the ghost “Old Jeffrey”. The attic room at the top of the house is known as Old Jeffrey’s Chamber and displays…

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Nottinghamshire

…provided the focus for his zeal. The chapel has now been replaced by the modern Broadway Cinema Complex (NG1 3AL) with its mosaic tiled columns; a bronze plaque in the…

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Oxfordshire

…travelling on a bus up Headington Hill in 1929, at first an extremely reluctant convert. He gradually found his way back to the Anglican church and employed his formidable intellect…

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Bedfordshire

…books, including Arthur Dent’s The Plain Man’s Pathway to Heaven , which together with the sermons of Christopher Hall, vicar of Elstow, set him on a spiritual journey.  After a…

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Bristol

…century grew rich on the profits of the Slave Trade.  In Victorian times, the tracks and yards of Brunel’s celebrated Great Western Railway carved great swathes through the city.  During…

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Devon

…full story and a stone canopy covers the way to the Mayflower Steps on the harbour wall. Other inscriptions here tell the story of earlier attempts to colonise the New…

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