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Mayflower 2020: Week-long festival tells the lesser known story of Southwark's Crossway Church
'The event of the Mayflower ship is not only a moment in world history, it is also our story. It is the story of Crossway and its links to the first Pilgrim Church here in Southwark'

Camberwell's Champion de Crespigny baronets
Champion Hill takes its name from a Hugenot family who sought refuge in London

How a Southwark reverend was the first to perform gay marriages - in the 1800s
Reverend John Church is thought by some to be the first ordained minister to perform gay 'marriages'