May 29-June 10, 2022 With special guest Jane Hurt, Governor General - Mayflower 400 Tours
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With special guest Jane Hurt, Governor General
May 29-June 10, 2022
Mayflower Heritage Tour
Are you a Mayflower Descendant? This exhibition about the Pilgrims. John Robinson is buried in this
tour is designed for you and your family church and we will see his home nearby, which is marked with
and friends! We are delighted to announce a plaque. The tour will also include seeing the site of William
that our special guest is Jane Hurt, Gover- Brewster’s printing shop, the Hooglandse Kerk, and Da Waag,
nor General of The General Society of where the Pilgrims first set foot in Leiden. The afternoon will be
Mayflower Descendants (GSMD). You at leisure to visit the Botanical Gardens, the Museum de Laken-
are invited to join other “cousins” on a 13 hal, or the many shops. We will enjoy a traditional Dutch meal
day tour tracing the lives of our ancestors this evening. (B/D)
on this Mayflower-themed tour of the Neth-
erlands and England.
Our tour host is Lisa Shoemaker, Histor-
ic Sites Chairperson for the GSMD. She
has been tour directing, tour managing and
tour guiding since 2008. She leads tours
for students, adults, music groups and spe-
cial interest groups. She has been an offi-
cial member of the GSMD for several years
and looks forward to introducing you to
places significant to Mayflower history.
Day 4: Wednesday, June 1, 2022: Delfshaven, Harwich
Day 1: Sunday, May 29, 2022: Depart North America This morning we will visit Delfshaven, the departure point for
We will depart from the USA today. Flight bookings and pre- the Speedwell. We will visit the Pilgrim Fathers’ Church and
tour arrangements can be made through Reformation Tours. explore the harbor district. We will then make our way to the
There is an optional pre-tour night in Amsterdam. (IF) Hook of Holland to board our own ship bound for England. The
crossing to Harwich takes 6½ hours. The ship has restaurants
Day 2: Monday, May 30, 2022: Amsterdam, Leiden on board, as well as shops, and a cinema. When we arrive in
When we arrive in Amsterdam, we will transfer directly to the England, we will check in to our hotel near Harwich. (B)
pre-tour hotel in Amsterdam where our tour director will wel-
come us to the Netherlands. In the afternoon we will have an Day 5: Thursday, June 2, 2022: Harwich, Boston, Retford
orientation tour of the city, including the Begijnhof, one of Am- Harwich is the port town where the Mayflower was built and
sterdam’s best-known almshouses and a narrated canal ex- where its captain, Master Christopher Jones, was born. We will
cursion, passing gabled warehouses, noble mansions, arched tour his recently renovated house, the Guildhall, and the
bridges, and colorful houseboats. We will then travel to Lei- Ha’Penny Pier. We will then drive to Boston, a port town on the
den, a delightful Dutch town where the Pilgrims lived for 12 East coast. In 1607, a group of pilgrims walked 60 miles from
years. We will get to know the group at tonight’s Welcome Din- Scrooby to Boston to meet a ship to take them to Holland. They
ner. (B/D) were betrayed and instead of a new life, they were arrested
and taken to the Guildhall. We will see the cells where they
were held in the Guildhall. St. Botolph’s Church, known as
“Boston Stump,” is one of England’s largest parish churches.
Rev. John Cotton urged members of his congregation to join
the Massachusetts Bay Company, and he helped found the city
of Boston in the 1630s. The Puritan Path leading to the church
is in his honor. We will dine in our hotel in Retford. (B/D)
Day 3: Tuesday, May 31, 2022: Leiden
After a leisurely breakfast, we will tour the American Pilgrim
Museum, which tells the stories of the founders of New Eng-
land (subject to availability). It features furnishings from Pilgrim
times, as well as maps and engravings from the 16 th and 17th
century. The Pieterskirk was founded in 1121 and has a small
May 29—June 10, 2022
Day 6: Friday, June 3, 2022: Babworth, Scrooby, Auster- Day 10: Tuesday, June 7, 2022: Southampton
field, Gainsborough, Retford After breakfast, we will travel to Southampton. Our local ex-
This morning our expert guide will take us on a tour of local pert guide will take us on a guided walk describing South-
sites that would have been very familiar to the Pilgrim Fa- ampton as it would have been in 1620, when the Pilgrims
thers. We will start at Babworth church where William Brew- arrived from Leiden. We will hear about the provisioning of
ster and William Bradford came together under Richard Clyf- the Speedwell and the Mayflower and see their departure
ton’s leadership. We will view Scrooby Manor, Brewster’s point. This is now commemorated with a Pilgrim Fathers’
home in Scrooby, as well as the village church. In Austerfield, Memorial, which was unveiled in 1913. We will tour the Tu-
we’ll visit St. Helena’s church to see the font where Bradford dor House and Garden, which existed at the time of the Pil-
was baptized and learn about his childhood. In the afternoon grims’ departure. We will dine together this evening. (B/D)
we will visit Gainsborough, from where the Pilgrims set out on
their final and successful escape attempt. We will tour the
medieval Old Hall, home of a local puritan. After time to
browse the excellent gift shop, we will return to Retford,
where we will have the opportunity to tour the Mayflower Gal-
lery in the Bassetlaw Museum. We will dine in our hotel in
Retford. (B/D)
Day 7: Saturday, June 4, 2022: Stratford-upon-Avon
After breakfast, we will drive to Stratford-upon-Avon, a medi-
eval market town that was the 16th-century birthplace of Wil-
liam Shakespeare. We will tour Shakespeare’s Birthplace,
Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, and Trinity Church. The rest of Day 11: Wednesday, June 8, 2022: Dorking, London
the day will be at leisure and tickets to a Shakespeare pro- After breakfast, we will have coffee at the Mullins Coffee
duction can be arranged. (B) Shop, located in the ancestral home of William Mullins, in
the heart of the old quarter of Dorking. We will then tour the
Dorking Museum with Kathy Atherton, followed by a tour of
the town. We’ll hear about Dorking in the time of the Pil-
grims, and view several homes from that time period. We
will continue to London and the evening is at leisure. (B)
Day 12: Thursday, June 9, 2022: London
We will have a fabulous view of London from the London
Eye this morning, followed by a round-trip cruise from West-
minster Pier. The bus will then take us to lunch at the May-
flower Pub in Rotherhithe. This used to be called the Shippe
Inn and was well known to the crew of the Mayflower. We
will see the original 1620s mooring point and we’ll have the
Day 8: Sunday, June 5, 2022: Droitwich Spa, Worcester, opportunity to sign the Mayflower Descendants visitors’
Plymouth book. The evening is at leisure. (B/L)
After breakfast at the hotel, we will travel to nearby Droitwich
Spa to attend the morning service at St. Peter’s Church Day 13: Friday, June 10, 2022: London
where Edward Winslow was baptized. He served three terms After breakfast, there will be a group transfer to Heathrow
as governor of Plymouth Colony. Winslow was educated at and additional transfers can be arranged. Post-tour travel
King’s School, which was part of Worcester Cathedral at that options are available. (B/IF)
time. After a group lunch, we will drive down to Plymouth and
dine in our hotel. (B/L/D)
Day 9: Monday, June 6, 2022: Plymouth
We will have breakfast in our hotel, then spend a full day ex-
ploring Plymouth. Our specialist guide will tell the story of the
Mayflower Pilgrims, the ship, and the voyage, before they
finally set off on September 16, 1620. We will see the May-
flower steps, the cobbled streets of the Barbican, and Sutton
Harbor. We will then have a few hours to explore inde-
pendently before we meet again for a boat cruise around the
harbor. We’ll visit the new Box Museum, then the rest of the
evening will be at leisure. (B)
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