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Christ Church is a lovely parish church dating from 1830 featuring fine stained glass windows, magnificent acoustic for its choir, organ and piano and significant historical and architectural features.

Amid scenic country views, this is an important and early Catholic church which has an impressive external design, an intimate and authentic interior and a unique story from construction in stages from a simple rectangular structure in 1785 to housing the bell which was the first one to ring out in the diocese since penal times ahead of the bell at Armagh Cathedral.

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.

Reached along a lane that gradually leaves the trappings of the 21st century behind, this church is on a spit of land between two fenland drains that enter the Great Ouse about half a mile away.

St Clement's is the most distinctive of all the Burnham churches with its large, square, Norman tower and chancel and nave at either side.

A 12th century church retaining its full integrity, setting and atmosphere within a small hamlet on the edge of the Cotswolds, and the home and burial place of renowned conservationists and authors Tom and Sonia Rolt.

Delightful limestone church dating from the 13th century and quite possibly replacing a wooden Saxon church which existed on the site when the Domesday Book was written in 1086.

The Cathedral welcomes everyone who passes through, if you are visiting as a tourist, come to offer your personal prayers and light a candle, or interested in history, architecture or stained glass windows.

A good vantage point from which to enjoy the setting of this church is the bridge over the Great Ouse.

Preston, the priests farm, was also known formerly as Preston juxta Northampton and Preston Juxta Piddington, it is first referred to in the Domesday Book (1086) as Prestone.

Nearly 1,000 years old.

The church which lies adjacent to the House but which it antedates by some 400 years, must have been used by the Bishops of Coventry whose seat this was before the advent of the Comptons in the 16th century.