Local historian Martin Greenwood is best known for his work on Flora Thompson and the countryside of her memoir Lark Rise to Candleford.
His latest book Pilgrim’s Progress Revisited (Wychwood Press, £14), also about Banburyshire, focuses on the chapels and meeting houses of the area, a stronghold of dissent for centuries. The historic drawings and paintings include a painting of Adderbury Meeting House, which is one of the earliest Quaker meeting houses in the country, dating from 1675. The painting, done in 1825, shows separate buildings on the left for women’s and children’s meetings.
The book is illustrated with his own photographs, including the Baptist Chapel next to the school in Little Tew, shown here.
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