Oxfordshire

elite. Just one college – Magdalen – claims seven Nobel prizewinners among its former Fellows. Others see Oxford as an intellectual backwater, an oasis of nostalgic dreamers, which has consistently…

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Durham

…additions, like Prior Castell’s fifteenth century clock and the Victorian pulpit, are masterpieces. At the Reformation, Cuthbert’s elaborate shrine at the east end of the cathedral was demolished and his…

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Gloucestershire

…Raikes (1735-1811) who pioneered the Sunday School movement, which provided a moral and educational foundation for generations of children.   The Cathedral Bishop Hooper memorial The cathedral stands in College…

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London (Central)

Central London   WESTMINSTER ABBEY If Canterbury Cathedral is the spiritual heart of the Church of England, Westminster Abbey is the focus of the nation’s collective grief and rejoicing. Royal

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Northumberland

…his capital at Canterbury became the centre of the new church. Lindisfarne Castle As part of her marriage contract, Ethelburga insisted on being allowed to practise her faith, and when

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Sussex

…ample supply of fuel. Richard Woodman (1524-1557), a leading local ironmaster and farmer, employed a hundred men and was churchwarden of St Mary’s Church (TN21 9BD). He was also a…

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Yorkshire (East Riding)

…but also his near contemporary Samuel Marsden (1764-1838) and the puritan poet Andrew Marvell (1621-1678), who also served as Hull’s Member of Parliament. Marsden was a personal friend of Wilberforce,…

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Hampshire

…the Norman cathedral and also founded New College, Oxford, and Winchester College. Queen Mary and Philip of Spain were married here in 1554 by Mary’s henchman Bishop Stephen Gardiner. King…

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Hertfordshire

Eliot emigrated to New England in 1631, only a decade after the Pilgrim Fathers, and while many in America at the time were preoccupied with mere survival, Eliot was intent…

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Kent

…should consult one of the official guides available from the bookstall. The original cathedral replaced a ruined Roman church given to Augustine by King Ethelbert. Parts of the present cathedral

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