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The church of St Andrew was built in 1794 to replace earlier buildings on the site.

Wilmington is a Downland village of Saxon origin, the present church was first built around 1200 as a chapel to the adjacent Priory and a feature of the churchyard is the ancient Yew tree, estimated to be 1600 years old, the trunk having a girth of 23ft.

A church at Wilsford is mentioned in Domesday Book, but the building dates to the 11th to 15th centuries, with a restoration in 1860 by Kirk and Parry.

Situated by the Avon, the church has a Norman tower but the rest is by TH Wyatt in 1851.

Grade I Victorian church built by Wyatt and Brandon for the Pembroke family at Wilton House.

Up to 1957 Wimbledon Congregational Church met in the hall known as the Memorial Hall which is now rented by Building Blocks Nursery.

‘After 83 years Donhead finally has its own Chapel and, as a Jesuit School, is now complete’ GC McGrath, Headmaster.

This is a large and exciting church founded, like Sherborne in 705; a nunnery here was dissolved in the 11th century and a college of canons served the parish until the Dissolution.

St Giles church stands beside picturesque almshouse and near to the great house of the Ashley Coopers, Earls of Shaftesbury.

13th century Cistercian abbey.

St Peter's is a beautiful Grade I listed church which dates back to the 15th century and it contains many ancient artifacts which are on display including a particularly fine piece of stained glass in its east window.

Winchelsea was built as a new, planned, town in 1288 after the old town was destroyed by the sea and the church was given a large and prestigious plot within a very large churchyard.