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Walking with Wilberforce
Follow in the footsteps of Hull's most famous son by completing a walking trail of sights which he knew in his lifetime.
Awalking trail around the streets of Hull will help people learn more about William Wilberforce and his campaign to abolish slavery.
The Walking with Wilberforce Trail, to be launched on May 7, will cut through the heart of the Old Town.
It will trace a route around streets which Wilberforce himself would still recognise today, including High Street, Lowgate and the Market Place.
The route
Waymarkers will be installed at key points along the route, and leaflets about the trail will be available from Hull Tourist Information Centre in Paragon Street. So put your best foot forward…
- Start at Wilberforce House
- Visit the anti-slavery Names on the Wall, near the Streetlife Museum
- Continue to Maister House and Crowle House, in High Street (these were merchants' houses in the time of Wilberforce)
- Then to sights he would recognise today, including Lowgate, Market Place, Trinity Square, Holy Trinity Church and the Old Grammar School
- Continue to Prince Street, Dagger Lane and Posterngate (places where migrants to Hull in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries gathered and where radical anti-slavery ideas flourished)
- Then to Trinity House, Ye Olde White Harte pub, Whitefriargate and Parliament Street.
- Next, visit the old site of the Wilberforce Monument, near Princes Quay, before finishing at the Wilberforce Monument, by Queen's Gardens
For more on the Walking with Wilberforce Trail, which is being set up thanks to funding from Hull City Council, the Heritage Lottery Fund, and the Yorkshire Forward regional development agency, call 300300 or visit www.hullcc.gov.uk
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The Wilberforce Way
If you're feeling fit, then why not walk the 35 miles of The Wilberforce Way?
To be launched this summer, The Wilberforce Way will start in Hull's Old Town and end at Wilberforce's former school in Pocklington, from where, as a 14-year-old, he wrote his first letter of protest against the slave trade.
Tracing roads and public footpaths, it will take in places of historic interest in the East Riding, including Beverley Minster.
For more information, call East Riding of Yorkshire Council on 393939 or visit www.eastriding.gov.uk *
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