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The church is mentioned in Domesday Book.

A Christian place of worship for well over 1000 years, with monastic foundations prior to 1066, All Saints Silkstone is well worth discovery.

A remote coastal church.

Although there has been a church on this site for over 600 years, the building has been altered several times and what you see today is essentially a 14th century tower with a Victorian nave and apse.

Holy Trinity was built in 1844 to replace an old chapel of ease, which had been built c1535.

Rawmarsh Methodist Church was built in 1908.

St Peter’s was opened in 1909, built for the growing population of the time.

Before 1868 local people had to walk to Kirkburton to go to church.

The name Elsecar is thought to mean ‘Elsi’s marsh’. Elsi was a Saxon lord who owned land here and ‘car’ is an old word for low, swampy ground.

All Hallows church is a large and beautiful building dating back at least eight centuries with a list of incumbents that can be traced back at least as far as 1230.

East Markham';s grand Perpendicular church has a fittingly imposing site on a ridge overlooking the Trent valley to the east.

There has been a church here, dedicated to St Gregory, since early Saxon times, rebuilt around 1290.