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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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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Hampshire

…story as she also falls victim to the scourge of tuberculosis at the tragically early age of fifteen. She is buried close to the east wall of the church, the…

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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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Buckinghamshire

…door on the south side which gave access to a marquee which could accommodate the large number of students who rode out from Oxford to hear him preach. Scott’s grandson…

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Cornwall

…North Gate is a dungeon known as Doomsdale, which we can view through the bars of a gate in the archway. This has held a number of distinguished prisoners including…

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