London (Central)

…the street. Immediately opposite at Number 23 is a handsome white-painted house, once the home of the prison reformer John Howard (1726-1790). Howard was appointed High Sheriff of Bedford in…

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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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Yorkshire (East Riding)

…faith with Edwin and his nobles in a Saxon banqueting hall. Eventually one man stood up and compared the life of a man to a sparrow’s flight across the hall,…

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Bedfordshire

…Ones pointing out the Celestial City. Our Bunyan trail continues in a roughly clockwise direction along St Peter’s Street and turning right into St Cuthbert’s Street.  A plaque on Number

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Yorkshire (South & West)

…barely a dozen regular communicants, but within a year, the number was close to a thousand, and thirty-five bottles of wine were needed for a single communion service. Apart from…

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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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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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