Churches of Cornwall
Trewidland Bible Christian Chapel was built in 1835 following local preaching in 1817, was restored in 1880, and was closed down in 1998 to be sold and converted into Wesley House in 2005-2006.
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Nguni
This group established itself from the 1600s, primarily coming in from East Africa and creating clans as they went, including those of the early Zulu and the later Swazi people.
Churches of Somerset
Stoke Pero Church does not have a local congregation or a dedication, with its earliest structure having been medieval, along with a tower which was erected in the thirteenth century.
Modern Lesotho
This state is relatively unusual in the fact that it has survived in a little-changed format since the early 1800s, and with the same ruling family despite going through the usual process of colonial occupation and subsequent independence.
Protectorate of Basutoland
During the protectorate period to 1965, Basutoland had no flag of its own, instead flying Britain's union flag as its national flag until independence in 1966.
Churches of Cornwall
Trevelmond (Second) Wesleyan Chapel sits not more than half a kilometre from the site of the first chapel, having been built in 1896.
Basuto
The Basuto name roughly translates as the 'country of the Sesotho-speaking people', with the founders of this country being a mixture of Bantu-speaking Sotho (or Basotho) and Tswana people.
Churches of Cornwall
Connon Wesleyan Reform Chapel in the village of the same name was built in 1865 in defiance of the local Bible Christians who had expelled and barred the lead minister.
Swazi / Swaziland
The indigenous Swazi (or Swati) state emerged during the rise of the Zulu nation to the south in the 1700s, originating as a Bantu-speaking people of the Nguni group.
Protectorate of Swaziland
Britain agreed to the creation of the Transvaal protectorate of Swaziland on 19 December 1894 without it being incorporated into Transvaal, and with internal independence largely remaining guaranteed.