Very few places can claim to have strong links with both Catholic martyrs and Mayflower Pilgrims. Beauvale Priory, a few …
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Henry Clarke, Mansfield’s missionary to Jamaica, had some strong ideas about how to improve the island. Starting a Building Society …
Marnham, a tiny hamlet on the River Trent a few miles south east of Retford, is not normally on anyone’s …
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Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire produced some of the most important Christian missionaries of the 1800s. Like James Hudson Taylor from Barnsley, …
Given how close Epworth is to Retford and Worksop it is perhaps surprising that he visited the two towns of Bassetlaw rarely. However it is very interesting to compare his reactions when he did come this way.
This picture shows Anne Askew from Lincolnshire being executed with three other men in 1546.