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William Bradford, the second (and arguably most famous) governor of the Plymouth Colony, was born in Austerfield and baptised in this small Norman-origins church in 1589. By the final decade of the nineteenth century, when interest in the Pilgrim…

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…

Edward Winslow, arguably one of the most important Pilgrim Fathers, was born in Droitwich in 1595 and baptised in St Peter’s. In October 1945, the 350th anniversary of his birth, a plaque to his memory was unveiled in the church. Commemorating…

The Pilgrim Father William Brewster was baptised in this parish church (built in the 15th century and restored in the Victorian period). In 1955, a special return pilgrimage of 104 American Pilgrim descendants (plus 48 guests) toured Holland and…

Dartmouth had an unanticipated role in the Mayflower story: as described briefly by William Bradford in his history of the voyage and the colony, the Mayflower and Speedwell had to dock in the town’s harbour after the latter sprung a leak shortly…

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,…

Scrooby, in Nottinghamshire, is famous today for its associations with the Pilgrims as the home of William Brewster and a meeting place for the Brownist congregation led by John Robinson and Richard Clyfton. It was not until the late 1840s, however,…

John Tilley and Joan Hurst married in this church, and their daughter, Elizabeth, was also baptised there along with John’s nephew Henry Sampson; all journeyed on the Mayflower, but only Elizabeth and Henry survived the first harsh winter. In 1989,…

St Mary’s Church in Redenhall, Norfolk, is a Grade I listed Anglican place of worship dating to the 14th century (with additions in the late 15th and early 16th century). Edward and Samuel Fuller, two brothers who were baptised in the church, were a…