Shropshire

…on its green. It proudly tells us that the learned and eloquent Baxter was here from 1640 to 1641.   HODNET Hodnet Hall Much of the land round Hodnet is…

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Bristol

…to Sarah Gwynne, Charles Wesley and his family spent 22 years in Bristol.  Their home was at 4 Charles Street (BS2 8NY) a short walk from Horsefair.  The three-storey house with…

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Cambridgeshire

…thirty-one. In the century before Simeon’s arrival, two distinguished puritans preached at Holy Trinity. Richard Sibbes (1577-1635) was lecturer from 1610 to 1620, attracting large numbers of students away from…

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Staffordshire

…surrounding countryside in all directions. Here on May 31st 1807 was held the first camp meeting of the Primitive Methodists, led by Hugh Bourne (1772-1852) and William Clowes (1780-1851). An…

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Bedfordshire

…slab set into the pavement commemorates Bunyan’s imprisonment here from 1660 to 1672.  The prison was demolished in 1801, but a cell door and items relating to his captivity are…

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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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Surrey

…slave trade.   FARNHAM Augustus Montague Toplady (1740-1778) was born in a cottage in West Street near the centre of the town. The family had no connections here, but his…

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Devon

…was Henry Francis Lyte (1793-1847), who came with his wife and family in 1824. They lived first at a house called Whitegates in Burton Street, but in 1833 moved to…

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Dorset

…at the age of twenty-one. This is the only memorial brass to an English king. It was engraved in the 15th century and the inscription added 250 years later. In…

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