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The church of St Mary the Virgin sits right at the heart of the Kirkby Lonsdale community; as well as it being a place of regular worship it is a significant visitor attraction and runs many art and cultural events.

St Mary's is one of the cradles of English Christianity, built on the site of a wooden Saxon monastery founded in 654 by St Cedd of LIndisfarne (who is buried here).

Delightful North Yorkshire village church with a medieval 'weeping cross' in the churchyard.

This beautiful Victorian church stands on a hill looking over the village of Birstwith through which runs the river Nidd.

The 'Knowe' is located in a very rural area, once home to Romans and the notorious Border Reivers; feuding, lawless, local families who raided each other’s farms taking livestock, goods, and possessions.

The early history of church life in Hampsthwaite is far from clear and is to some extent based on supposition.

St Anne’s is a beautiful Grade II* Georgian church, one of the few examples from this period in the North of England.

One of the Rylstone's most iconic buildings, the church was constructed between 1852 and 1853 and has a gritstone exterior in a style known as 'churchwarden gothic'.

St Kentigern, also called St Mungo, has been linked to Mungrisdale since about 550 AD and the present church, rebuilt in 1756, probably replaced one on the site of one of St Kentigern's original crosses.

It is thought that the church originated no later than the 9th century, and possibly as early as the 7th century, although there is no mention of the church in the Domesday Book.

Although there was an important Saxon church here, the present building dates mainly from the 1130s.

A fine example of a Georgian church, complete with balcony as well as interesting stained glass windows depicting the life of St Cuthbert and a moving pulpit, the only one of its type in the country.