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Dating from 1839, with beautiful stain glass windows set against the back drop of the Peak District National Park.

It is thought that there was a church on this site before the Norman Conquest as the Domesday Book mentions a St Michael's Church in the east of the ancient parish of Manchester.

The name Elsecar is thought to mean ‘Elsi’s marsh’. Elsi was a Saxon lord who owned land here and ‘car’ is an old word for low, swampy ground.

This magnificent 19th century building, designed by George Frederick Bodley, is hugely significant in the northwest and is known locally as the 'Miners Cathedral'.

The church was founded in 1796 and is an attractive Grade II listing building.

Christ Church is a splendid Victorian church, built in the decorated style in 1855, when the communities of Brampton and West Melton were growing fast with the expansion of coal mining.

St Martin's is a modern, safe and well maintained place of worship constructed in the late 1950s and is a community lead church.

Welcoming church at the heart of the local community.

For more than 1000 years a building has stood on this spot, Saxons and Normans, Tudors and Elizabethans, Victorians and even us today have left their mark on it.

Cusworth Hall was built by the architect George Platt for William Wrightson 1740-45.

Holy Angels is a small modern church in the heart of the Irlam’s O‘th Height residential community.

Set in stunning Nithsdale countryside, Dunscore Church contains a new heritage centre telling the story of 800 years of Christianity in the parish and the life of Jane Haining, who wended her life in the Auschwitz extermination camp.