Cornwall

…(1714-1761), who never aspired to be anything more than curate of the former St Mary’s. Walker was born and educated in Exeter and in 1740 became curate and then vicar…

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Hampshire

…in 1940 severely damaged much of the ancient centre of the city. 630 people were killed and 4,000 houses destroyed, including the birthplace of Southampton’s most famous son, Isaac Watts…

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Somerset

…(BS40 7AU) when he was overtaken by a violent storm and took shelter in the cleft of a rock that can still be seen. Augustus Montague Toplady (1740-1778) was inspired…

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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

…Pilgrim Fathers, but those worthy gentlemen might not have appreciated that kind of immortality.     STURTON-LE-STEEPLE Village sign, Sturton Sturton calls itself The Town on the Street, but is…

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Oxfordshire

…Goodwin (1600-1680) was President of Magdalen College at this time and a frequent preacher at the university church of St Mary. In 1720, the young John Wesley arrived at Christ…

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Staffordshire

…few hundred members to over 200,000. Ignoring the misgivings of Wesley, the American Methodists gave Asbury the title of Bishop and Bishop Asbury’s Cottage next to the Malt Shovel Inn…

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Buckinghamshire

…Kansas, in America. Olney Church Olney’s most famous residents, still remembered after 250 years, were John Newton (1725-1806) and William Cowper (1731-1800).  They came from backgrounds as far removed as possible, but…

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Cumbria

…population than today. It was the start of a movement which gave him a following of some 20,000 Friends in Cumbria alone. To find the place we have to take…

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Gloucestershire

…eye each other suspiciously. And not without reason; much of the ancient heart of the city has disappeared under twentieth century developments. At the centre, North-, South-, East- and Westgate…

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