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As the crow flies, Chesterton church is barely a mile from the noise and bustle of Warwick Services on the M40, but it feels amazingly remote.

Overlooking the wetland nature reserve of Amberley Wild Brooks, St Michael's is itself overlooked by the scarp slope of the South Downs.

The Beacon Church Centre was built in 1928 with halls added in 1961 and a concourse in 2005.

A stunning little church in an idyllic setting.

Buried in the countryside high in the Clee Hills, Heath is just about the plainest, simplest church you will ever see.

Christ Church is set on the brow of a hill, in the centre of the parish, but on the edge of the village, surrounded by the old and new well kept churchyard and by farmland.

A living Roman Catholic Benedictine monastery near Guildford in Surrey which welcomes the public to join the monks in daily Mass, Divine Office and prayer (often in Gregorian Chant) 365 days a year.

Called 'The Cathedral of the Fields' this magnificent church stands in an isolated hamlet on a slight hill, so that while it can appear suddenly in distant views, reaching it involves negotiating miles of winding narrow lanes.

King Alfred is recorded as having bequeathed Lyminster to his nephew in 901, it was the site of a Benedictine nunnery, and the flint church we see today has Saxon origins as the present walls go back to about 1040.

After passing the splendid churchyard yew (over 1,000 years old), the latched door in the 14th century porch opens to reveal a church with a wall painting of St Christopher.

However you reach it Edgcote feels removed from daily life, out of time.