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Burgh Island is a tidal island on the coast of Devon.

A peaceful Cornish church wrapped in mystery - dedicated to a saint about whom almost nothing is known, yet still quietly at the heart of parish life after centuries of prayer, pilgrimage and story.

A hermit’s hut, chapel or church has stood on this site for at least 1500 years, and St Sampson’s lies on the ancient Saints Way along which many of the Celtic Saints came from Padstow to Fowey, thus avoiding a perilous sea route around Land’s End.

All Saints is a beautiful Grade II* listed church situated in the heart of the village of Thurlestone on the South Devon coast.

Of all the churches in southeast Cornwall, St Tallan contains perhaps the most surprises.

A church set in ‘Clay Country’ 600ft above sea level on the site of an Iron Age fort and looking out towards Newquay and the north coast of Cornwall.

The story goes that St Wyllow, a Christian hermit, was living nearby in 596, legend has it that he was killed beheaded but that he brought the head here, thus deciding where the church should be built.

This church is the first designed and built by the eminent Victorian architect George Edmund Street.

Centrally located, near the main street and bus station, the church and community hall were built in the 1960s and renovated in 2025.

St Magnus Cathedral known as the Light in the North and founded in 1137 by the Viking, Earl Rognvald, in honour of his uncle St Magnus, dominates Kirkwall on Orkney.

St Cubert was a Welsh missionary who came over in the 7th century, together with his companion St Carantoc.

The site upon which this little church is built has been holy ground for some 1400 years and it is known that around 550AD Saint Mevan and Saint Issey busied themselves in this neighbourhood organising the early Celtic church.