Church of St. Bartholomew

Jethro Tull the 18th-century agricultural inventor, was baptized in the church and buried in the graveyard.

Jethro Tull, the 18th-century English farmer who played an important role in the British Agricultural Revolution, was baptized in the church and buried in the graveyard. He is best known for inventing the horse-drawn seed drill in 1701, which sowed the seeds in neat rows. Tull was baptized in St Bartholomew's church on March 30, 1674. He died in 1741 but according to his gravestone, he was buried on 9 March 1740. This apparent confusion is due to the burial date being in the Old Style