Pictures:
Top - John Wesley's statue at Epworth. Middle - Scrooby Manor where the Pilgrim Fathers met. Bottom - The statue of William Wilberforce peers around the gateway of his former home - now a museum - in Hull.
Just some of our famous local people!
History is all about people, and since the area around Brook Lodge Country Cottage is full of history, there are also interesting people. Here are links to a few pages.
It was at nearby Epworth that the preacher John Wesley was born. After going away to University, he returned to join his family which had now moved to Wroot, where he became Curate and Headmaster of the local school for two years - before he began a life of itinerant open-air preaching.
Scrooby Manor near Bawtry was where some of the non-conformists (who later became the Pilgrim Fathers) met together as a non-conformist church before they fled to the continent and then to America to found the Plymouth Colony, which remained a separate state up until 1691
In Kingston upon Hull is the former home of William Wilberforce, the politician and social reformer whose tireless campaigning year after year - introducing anti-slavery motions in the Parliament, eventually led to the abolition of slavery and of the slave trade.
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