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Hampshire

…is lost and so, as one author wrote, his dust is mingled with the soil we tread. A statue of Alfred by Sir Hamo Thorneycroft was erected in the Broadway

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Hertfordshire

…tower is Norman, built of Roman bricks and tiles gathered from Verulamium, while the Chapter House is twentieth century. The Gothic-looking West front is actually late Victorian. The Abbey Gateway

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Kent

…confused with the earlier St Augustine of Hippo), to lead a mission for the conversion of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England. Augustine set out with forty monks, but halfway there…

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London (South)

…filled, the seating capacity was increased to 1,800, but by 1859 a new church was needed and the Metropolitan Tabernacle was built at the Elephant and Castle, not far away….

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Norfolk

…moved to Earlham Hall, just outside Norwich. By coincidence, the writer Harriet Martineau (1802-1870) was also born in the same house. In the alleyway leading to the courtyard, are plaques…

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Rutland

…Smithfield on July 1st, 1555. His final words, to his fellow-sufferer John Leaf, were Straight is the gate and narrow is the way that leadeth to eternal life and few…

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Staffordshire

…Quakerism. The Friends found more fruitful fields elsewhere.   GREAT BARR Francis Asbury’s cottage A small brick cottage stands incongruously beside Newton Road, a busy dual carriageway linking Sutton Coldfield…

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Yorkshire (East Riding)

…used in the King James Version. From 1420 to 1810, this building housed York Minster library.   GOODMANHAM Sitting astride the Wolds Way footpath, the village lies midway between York…

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