Hertfordshire

…should wish to sit down and think of changing the world for the better.   WIDFORD John Eliot window Located between Ware and Bishop’s Stortford, this little village was the…

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Staffordshire

…of supporters rose to defend him and fights between the two groups continued for much of the day. As the night wore on, Wesley was dragged between the homes of…

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Yorkshire (South & West)

…and North Yorkshire remains as a separate county.   HAWORTH Haworth Main Street Located between the Leeds-Bradford conurbation and barren Pennine moorland, the village will for ever be associated with…

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Cumbria

…daughters married Quakers and in 1669, after eleven years of widowhood, Margaret herself married George Fox. She had already supported him in his labours and shared his sufferings. When Fox…

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Gloucestershire

…a distinguished Shropshire family, Hill was a popular preacher, who for fifty years spent six months of each year ministering here and the other six months at the Surrey Chapel…

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Hereford & Worcester

…travelled constantly in his diocese, preaching, exhorting and promoting church building. On visits to Bristol, he suppressed a flourishing slave trade with Ireland. Respected by all sides, he helped to…

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Northumberland

…extended well beyond his own domain.  When King Cynegils of Wessex accepted the new faith, Oswald stood sponsor as he was baptised by Birinus at Dorchester, near Oxford, and married…

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Nottinghamshire

…applauded their commitment to the poor. George Fox (1624-1691) was here in 1649, at the beginning of his preaching career and still groping for the truth. He entered a church,…

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Oxfordshire

…century and a half later, the intellectual whirlwind unleashed by his teachings reached a tragic climax with the trial and burning of the leading reformer bishops Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley…

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Warwickshire

…SHELDON Squeezed between the urban sprawl of Birmingham and its airport, this village is not a natural tourist destination. Thomas Bray (1656-1730) came here as rector in 1690. In 1695…

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