London (Central)

…and present. Winston Churchill was married here in 1908. We pass it as we stand in the queue for the abbey, but it is an impressive building in its own…

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…your privacy is protected and your data is secure under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified…

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Buckinghamshire

…AMERSHAM This is a town of independent spirit and its zeal in matters of religion earned it terrible retribution in centuries past.  It is in two parts – the Old…

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London (South)

…its greatest pioneers were commissioned. These were Robert Moffat (1795-1883) and John Williams (1796-1839). Moffat opened up work in southern Africa, where he was later joined by his future son-in-law…

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Bristol

the Industrial Revolution it was the largest city in England after London. Connected to the sea via the River Avon, it was once an important port and in the eighteenth…

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Staffordshire

…and West Bromwich. It was the boyhood home of Francis Asbury (1745-1816), who is better known in the United States than Britain. In 1771, in response to an invitation by…

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Cambridgeshire

…1441. Its special features include the magnificent fan-vaulted ceiling, the immense carved oak screen carrying the initials of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, and Rubens’ Adoration of the Magi above…

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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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Northumberland

…can follow it up in the museum at Bamburgh. Inner Farne is closest to the shore, about two miles off Bamburgh.  It was from here, if Bede is to be…

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Yorkshire (East Riding)

…but more detail is given in the page on Northumberland. Paulinus had been sent to Kent from Rome in 601 to assist Augustine in the conversion of the Saxon kingdoms…

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