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John Howland was the Pilgrim passenger best known for having fallen off the ship halfway across the Atlantic! He was baptised in the Church of St Peter and St Paul (dating from the 13th to 15th centuries). In 1966, the Pilgrim John Howland Society…

Several passengers on the Mayflower came from Essex. Christopher Martin, who was originally the governor of the leaky Speedwell, was at one time a churchwarden in Great Burstead – though went on to get himself in trouble for dissenting from the…

Boston’s Grade I listed Guild Hall dates from the late 14th century, and serves today as the town’s museum. From the late 16th to early 19th century it was used as the council house of the town corporation – and space below as a prison. In 1607,…

William Brewster and William Bradford, according to most historians, worshipped at All Saint’s, Babworth, under the preacher Richard Clifton, until each broke with the established church in the early 17th century. The church dates to around the 15th…