John Bunyan - The Stone House - Town Bridge, High Street, Bedford, Bedfordshire, UK
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Dragontree
N 52° 08.065 W 000° 27.965
30U E 673419 N 5779016
An old Historical Marker vital to the life of John Bunyan; a famous figure of Bedfordshire.
Waymark Code: WMBMQ8
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 06/03/2011
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The plaque is slightly discoloured and lies on the northern end of the Town Bridge opposite The Swan Hotel. It reads as follows:
'On the shallow East of the 3rd Pier
of the Bridge
stood the Stone-House
wherein BUNYAN imprisoned
1675 - 1676
wrote the first part of the
Pilgrim's Progress.
"As I slept I dreamed a dream"
John Bunyan was a figure of immense, religious importance and lived between 1628 - 1688. When he began preaching his Puritan beliefs he was arrested and taken to gaol.
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