Lincolnshire

…items relating to its famous former occupants – family furniture, books, portraits and letters. There are several prints of events in the lives of the Wesley brothers which have become…

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Hertfordshire

…Amphibalus was on the run from his persecutors and sought shelter with Alban, a citizen of Verulamium. Impressed by the lifestyle of his uninvited guest, Alban was converted to Christianity…

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…St Aidan See where they lived Walk where they walked Pray where they prayed Select a county or region and find out which famous Christians were born, lived, worked or…

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Durham

…the west end of the cathedral is the tomb of Bede (672-735), whose History of the English Church and People is one of the very few documents to shed light…

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Somerset

…his immediate neighbours would have included Thomas Gainsborough, Clive of India and William Pitt the Elder. Hannah More (1745-1833) lived with her sisters at 79 Great Pulteney Street (BA2 4LD)…

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Essex

lived at Kelvedon for the first year of his life. For some reason, perhaps financial, he was sent at the age of eighteen months to live with his grandfather James…

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Suffolk

…commission in 1535 sounded the death knell of the monasteries. Today the ruins of the Abbey cover a large area in the historic centre of Bury on the west bank…

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Leicestershire

…as a cabinet maker. In 1829, he covered over 2,000 miles on foot around the villages of Rutland and Leicestershire. Cook was a keen supporter of the temperance movement and,…

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Yorkshire (North)

…pigs, was Caedmon (fl 670), celebrated as the first English poet. He is said by Bede to have been able, after a short meditation, to render into English verse any…

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Cheshire

…its fine cathedral. Running in a two-mile circuit around the centre, the walls have sections up to seventeen feet high, some parts dating back to Roman times. Matthew Henry memorial…

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