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The Manor House in Austerfield is popularly thought to be the place where William Bradford, orphaned as a child, was brought up by his paternal grandfather and uncles. Bradford became associated with the Brownists during his adolescence before…

On his 1850s tour of Mayflower sites, William Henry Bartlett travels to Standish, Lancashire, the ancestral home of the Standish family. It is not certain whether he was a Separatist, but Miles Standish was certainly one of the most well-known of the…

Once home to William Brewster, the remains of Scrooby Manor were demolished in the early 19th century. After its associations with Brewster were discovered by the historian Joseph Hunter in the 1840s, its popularity as a site of Pilgrim Fathers…

William Henry Bartlett gave the following illustration and written account of the bucolic landscape near Scrooby in the 1850s: "It is one of those rich pastoral districts common enough in merry England, which, having no marked features of hill and…

Remarking on the changes between Southampton of the 1620s and the city in the 1850s, William Henry Bartlett provides an illustration of a ‘curious old cannon, presented to the town by Henry VIII’ which overlooks the stop where the ‘"Mayflower" and…

Described by William Henry Bartlett as a ‘romantic harbour’, his beautiful illustration of a peaceful seaside scene contrasts starkly with the difficulties the separatists faced in commencing their Atlantic voyage: "The emigrants were then regularly…

William Bradford was baptised in St Helena’s Church, Austerfield. Since William Henry Bartlett’s description and illustration of the building in the 1850s the church has reflected is association with the New Plymouth Governor. In 1897 the north aisle…

William Henry Bartlett provides some beautiful illustrations of Boston’s church, town hall, and the medieval buildings that adorn the town. He compliments this with an emotional narrative of the Pilgrim’s ill-fated attempt to flee to Holland from…