Suffolk

…around his shrine on the site of an earlier foundation dating from 633. Abbey Gateway and Cathedral When the Danes under Sweyn Forkbeard again threatened in 1010, Edmund’s body was…

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Yorkshire (South & West)

…fourteen locations with connections to the pioneer missionary (see www.jameshudsontaylor.org.uk). Hudson Taylor memorial Taylor’s birthplace was in Cheapside, the main shopping area, where is father had a pharmacy business. The…

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Bristol

…century grew rich on the profits of the Slave Trade.  In Victorian times, the tracks and yards of Brunel’s celebrated Great Western Railway carved great swathes through the city.  During…

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Norfolk

…of several early Bibles, including a Bishops’ Bible of 1568, Coverdale’s Bible of 1582 and an incomplete copy of Wycliffe’s Bible in manuscript. Site of Lollards Pit On the east…

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Staffordshire

…Market Place. The first cathedral on the site was built around 700 in memory of Chad. The present one is mainly thirteenth century, but was badly damaged in the Civil…

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Somerset

Somerset   BATH Bath is now a World Heritage Site and the world makes its way here to see this jewel of Georgian architecture and its Roman predecessor. Visitors come…

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Yorkshire (East Riding)

Yorkshire (East Riding)   YORK The uniquely splendid Minster, largely intact city walls and a wealth of medieval churches make York the main tourist destination in the north of England….

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ABOUT US

…but we have a complementary website for Wales www.waleschristianheritage.org.uk. The guide is about people not buildings. Famous churches and cathedrals are only mentioned if there is an association with a…

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Oxfordshire

…are organised by www.zenasheritagetours.com] Balliol College John Wycliffe (1324-1384) came here as Master of Balliol College in the fourteenth century and described Oxford as a Vineyard of the Lord. A…

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Dorset

Dorset   It is mainly memories of England’s greatest king, Alfred the Great (849-901), that bring us to Dorset. In Saxon times, the county formed part of the kingdom of…

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