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The John Bunyan or Tinker Trail

                                                                          Tabor room, Harlington Manor four poster bed see booking.com for favourable terms Harlington Manor, close to Harlington Station is available for bed and a wonderful tasty breakfast. Breakfast can be eaten in the very room where John Bunyan was interrogated after his arrest for 'preaching in a public place'. John Bunyan was a mender of pots and pans and so the heritage trail around the village is known as the Tinker Trail. He was born at Elstow 1628-1688. After breakfast the non-linear trail can be investigated. The natural inclination is to head for the oak, which Bunyan climbed into and acted as a natural soundboard to amplify his preachings. The interpretation board in Harlington Park is not to scale, and there are areas on the OS map that cannot be ground-truthed, so be prepared to walk out of the village onto a busy road before crossing by this sign and relying on your background reading. Once into t