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St James the Great, with its Bronte and Anne Lister connections is situated in the beautiful Calder Valley, with its literary and industrial heritage.

Holy Trinity is a delightful rural church in the heart of the village conservation area with a wonderful lychgate and stone cross in the church grounds as well as memorials to the Rawnsley family from Raithby Hall.

Ashby is a remote hamlet and its medieval church of St Andrew is approached across a farmyard. The churchyard affords fabulous views across the Wolds.

Nicholas Leache, rector of Belchford in 1536, was one of the ringleaders in the Lincolnshire Rising in which 3,000 people marched through the county to protest against closure of the monasteries by Henry VIII.

St John's is a large stone Gothic style church, built in 1832 which is situated in the centre of Cleckheaton.

St Julian's is a large cruciform church which stands tucked away in the quaint village of Benniworth.

Two saints and three knights remembered.

It may come as a surprise to you that St Mary's is only about 150 years old.

Fishlake St Cuthbert dates from around 1175 and is justly famous for its remarkable south doorway Romanesque architecture, come and see!

The church stands in the grounds of the Hall, which was and still is the home of the Heneage family and the chancel and north chapel contain an unparalleled and virtually unbroken sequence of family monuments dating from the 15th century.

Tal y llyn sits in a huge churchyard which throws into relief its diminutive scale.

A lovely place, where American poet Sylvia Plath is buried; the new churchyard was recently used in the filming of the BBC series Happy Valley and the old graveyard in the BBC series The Gallows Pole.