John Bunyan, creator of the immensely common Christian novel The Pilgrim’s Progress, was born in Bedfordshire, England, and close to there is the place you can start a day journey peering into his life. If you would like, you possibly can cease over at a well-known mattress and breakfast and make it a two-day voyage.
In Bedford, you will discover the John Bunyan Museum, which holds shows depicting his life, and a library crammed with writings by him and his friends. In accordance with the library’s web site, “Alongside writings by John Bunyan and his contemporaries, the library homes biographies of Bunyan and different historic figures.” The area is small, however there’s room sufficient for researchers to review Bunyan’s works. Please word that this is completed by appointment solely. There’s additionally an area for church providers, which are held on Sundays at 11 AM and 6:30 PM.
After the museum, you possibly can drive south, about 27 miles, to Bedfordshire and go to Harlington Manor, a modern-day mattress and breakfast. It is also the place the place Bunyan is believed to have been interrogated by magistrate, Sir Francis Wingate, for preaching the Bible and not using a license. Bunyan is alleged to have been held for one evening within the constructing earlier than being transferred to Bedford County Geol, the place he spent the following 12 years in jail.
In accordance with Breakpoint Colson Middle, “initially sentenced to a few months, underneath the situation that he would cease preaching, Bunyan famously replied that he was prepared to undergo ‘until the moss shall develop on mine eyebrows, moderately than thus to violate my religion and rules.'”
From Harlington Manor, you possibly can drive additional south to London, a distance of about 42 miles, and go to Bunyan’s closing resting place at Bunhill Fields Burial Floor.
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