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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Sussex

the sight of rows of well-to-do, hymn-singing Christians, while millions in China had no chance to hear the gospel, he walked out and wandered onto the beach, deep in thought…

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Bedfordshire

…yonder shining light? Site of Bunyan’s baptism A short walk from St John’s, down Cardington Street and up a cul-de-sac called Chethams, brings us to the site of Bunyan’s baptism,…

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Nottinghamshire

…1586. At Scrooby, a few miles to the north, lived William Brewster (1566-1644), a man of some status and position, who was Master of the Post. Austerfield, just across the

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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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Buckinghamshire

…could be the set for another Jane Austen TV series.  Amersham-on-the-Hill is mostly modern and grew up around the railway station half a mile away. Amersham Old Town Amersham became…

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Cheshire

…recently been converted into flats. In the eighteen-sixties the headmaster was the Rev. Algernon Grenfell, whose son Wilfrid Grenfell (1865-1940) was born here. As can be imagined from the setting,…

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Hereford & Worcester

…at Hay-on-Wye, a similar attack proved fatal. His gravestone has the simple text For me to live is Christ, to die is gain. It gives the date of his death…

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London (North & East)

…where Barnado and his wife lived from 1875 to 1879 (E3 4LN).  It is an elegant four-storey end-of-terrace house, which was later used as a training home for girls entering…

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Shropshire

Shropshire   MADELEY John Fletcher’s tomb Madeley is an odd-shaped village with an odd-shaped church, on the outskirts of Telford new town. Down Church Street from the shopping centre, St…

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