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Blanchland got its name from the white habits worn by monks of the Premonstratensian order who founded Blanchland Abbey.

The church sits quietly on a hill top amongst the trees near to the ruins of the ancient listed Grade I Monastic Grange and it is on the route of the Northern Saints Trails and the Roof of England long distance trail.

A casualty of Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries, the only remaining part of the 12th century Premonstratensian Blanchland Abbey is part of the abbey church which today serves the parish of Blanchland.

A beautiful Italian style church, revealing a history of the Catholic martyrs.

Built in 1796 on the site of an earlier medieval church by the first Lord Suffield.

The dedication to The Holy Paraclete is unique in England.

St Mary's is best know for its Copleston rectors, an ancient, formidable and prosperous clerical dynasty who served continuously as rectors of the parish from 1772 to 1954.

St Mary's stands in water meadows beside the young River Adur, close to the white windmill made famous as the fictional home of Jonathan Creek of TV fame.

The inspiration for a dramatic Dickens tale.

A beautiful, well loved, 15th/16th century medieval church, set at the top of the village.