Bedfordshire

…only Shakespeare and Stratford have a stronger association between man and place.  His statue stands on St Peter’s Green, and the Tourist Information Office (MK40 1SJ) provides Bunyan guides to…

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London (Central)

…of the present abbey was built in the reign of Henry III between 1220 and 1272. Additions and improvements were added in subsequent centuries and the familiar West Towers were…

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Oxfordshire

…centre. Cornmarket Street is now mercifully traffic-free, but has still been voted one of the least attractive streets in Britain. It links the High Street and St Aldate’s to Broad…

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Somerset

…how the town became the epitome of fashionable Georgian society, through an improbable partnership between the architects John Wood – father and son – and the powdered dandy, Richard “Beau”…

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Bristol

…in five enormous homes on Ashley Down.     BROADMEAD New Room pulpit We shall begin – more or less – in the centre.  Sandwiched between Horsefair and the pedestrianised…

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Gloucestershire

…Streets converge at a traffic-free crossroads, busy with shoppers and tourists by day. Close by are the historic New Inn, with its galleried courtyard where Shakespeare may have performed, and…

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London (North & East)

…friendly atmosphere.  The ground floor has a general display reflecting social changes in Whitechapel, Stepney and Bethnal Green, the area now known by the clumsy collective name of Tower Hamlets. …

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London (South)

…They used their influence to lift the ban on missionary work in the subcontinent. Granville Sharp is best known for securing the legal ruling that a slave became free the…

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Suffolk

…for Sweyn’s impiety, his son Canute made additions to the abbey. From then on it prospered – the great abbey church being built between 1090 and 1222, until Thomas Cromwell’s…

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