Elstow, Bunyan's Cottage 1897

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The village in which John Bunyan once lived has almost become a place of pilgrimage. John Bunyan was born in Elstow, and lived in a cottage on Elstow High Street for four years after marrying his first wife. John Bunyan's home in the village is shown as it was in 1921 in this photograph; it stood on the west side of the northern end of Elstow High Street, but was demolished in the 1960s. John Bunyan's tribulations and his works, of which 'Pilgrim's Progress' might be the best known but is far from singular, are celebrated in the establishment of the Bunyan Trail. This 75-mile-long footpath winds through the Bedfordshire countryside linking elements of Pilgrim's journeys and the more factual aspects of Bunyan's life.