The story of Mary Jones and her Bible used to be part of the staple diet of all Welsh children. It is doubtful, these days, if many of the younger generation have ever heard of her - or her ...

A Bible bought by a young girl who walked nearly 30 miles barefoot to buy it will return to Bala for the first time in more than 200 years. Mary Jones saved her pennies for six years to buy the ...

The Bible Society hopes to attract visitors from far and wide to Mary Jones World Most teenagers would not walk 26 miles for a book, but 200 years ago an extraordinary 15-year-old girl in Gwynedd ...

Mary Jones walked 25 miles barefoot across difficult terrain in a bid to obtain a Bible in her own language The story of a 15-year-old Welsh-speaking girl whose hunger for a Bible in her own ...

An historic Bible has made a rare return to the town where it was bought nearly 220 years ago. Mary Jones bought the Welsh language Bible in Bala in 1800 from the Rev Thomas Charles. The 15-year ...

Work has started to turn a deconsecrated church into a new £1 million visitor centre, celebrating the story of a young girl’s epic trek to buy a Bible. Mary Jones World will be based at St ...

In 1800 Mary Jones walked barefoot across the hills from Llanfihangel-y-Pennant to Bala to buy a bible which she had saved six years for. Now a £1.3m visitor and education centre is to tell her ...

The Bible Society has returned Mary Jones' book to Bala, where she originally purchased it in 1800 from Rev Thomas Charles. She saved money from the age of nine for the trip, which moved Rev ...