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Hertfordshire

…family are buried here. Edward Bickersteth (1786-1850) came here as vicar in 1830 and remained until his death twenty years later. After ordination in 1815, he was a keen supporter…

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Yorkshire (East Riding)

…Wilberforce was baptized. Isaac Milner (1750-1820) was a lifelong friend and it was on a tour of the South of France in 1784-85 with his former teacher that Wilberforce, then…

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Gloucestershire

…great as any city of comparable size. It was the birthplace of the great evangelist George Whitefield (1714-1770), and in Queen Mary’s reign the bishop, John Hooper (1495-1555), was one…

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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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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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Somerset

…(BS40 7AU) when he was overtaken by a violent storm and took shelter in the cleft of a rock that can still be seen. Augustus Montague Toplady (1740-1778) was inspired…

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Derbyshire

…which demanded acceptance of the 1662 Prayer Book, Bagshawe was one of 2,000 ministers ejected from their parishes. More fortunate than most, he enjoyed a private income and retired to…

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Suffolk

…their memory. In St Mary’s Square (IP33 2AJ), a handsome three-storey Georgian building, now called Swan House, was once the home of the anti-slavery campaigner Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846).   HOXNE…

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Staffordshire

…few hundred members to over 200,000. Ignoring the misgivings of Wesley, the American Methodists gave Asbury the title of Bishop and Bishop Asbury’s Cottage next to the Malt Shovel Inn…

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