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A delightful surpise awaits you at this fascinating 11th century church with its rust coloured greenstone walls and open Victorian bell turret.

Tucked away on opposite sides of the Nadder valley, the Donhead parishes once made up an estate that belonged to Shaftesbury Abbey.

Contains the only tomb to a member of the royal family in an English parish church.

Visible from miles around that spire of St Mary’s nestles into the beautiful landscape of the Heart of the English Lake District.

St Michael’s sits in a verdant spot, a little way outside the village surrounded by a lush growth of trees and approached over a fine lawn guarded by a voluminous hedge.

St James church is a small congregation worshipping in the 'Railway Church' which was built in 1880 when the railway, and the folk who worked on it, was a very significant part of life in Tebay.

The present church was built in 1857 to 58 and only a single buttress and short stretch of wall are left from its medieval predecessor (some fifty or so yards to the southwest).

It is believed that Holy Trinity is one of the 'four voices of four hamlets round... the merry, merry bells of Yule' found within the poem 'In Memorium AHH' by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Holy Trinity has Saxon origins but the current building was built in the 11th and 12th centuries. In 1859 the church was extensively altered by Victorian architect James Fowler.

In 1334 John de Harrington founded a chantry in this place, whereby the chaplain and his assistant were enabled to support themselves and pray daily for the souls of their founder and his family.

A small and beautiful George Gilbert Scott church in a serene hamlet just outside St Albans.

Known as 'The Queen of the Wolds', St Edith's is a Norman church, remodelled by JL Pearson for Sir Tatton Sykes in the mid 19th century.

By the renowned 'rogue' architect EB Lamb in 1851 and described by Pevsner as ‘a veritable riot of forms, perverse and mischievous’, with interesting monuments and stained glass and standing in a tranquil setting in open countryside.