Lincolnshire

…replaced the Edinburgh stagecoach. The whole town is built from honey-coloured limestone. Links with the eccentric and irascible Robert Browne (1550-1631) bring us here. He came from a wealthy Stamford…

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London (South)

…known was William Wilberforce (1759-1833), while the others included John Thornton (1720-1790), his son Henry Thornton (1760-1815), Charles Grant (1746-1823), John Shore (later Lord Teignmouth) (1751-1834), Zachary Macaulay (1768-1838), Granville…

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Suffolk

…their memory. In St Mary’s Square (IP33 2AJ), a handsome three-storey Georgian building, now called Swan House, was once the home of the anti-slavery campaigner Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846).   HOXNE…

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Nottinghamshire

…also has a small museum upstairs devoted to the Pilgrim Fathers. For further information on related locations see www.pilgrimsandprophets.co.uk   SCROOBY Pub sign, Scrooby This is an unexciting name for…

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