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The 'Crooked Spire' is one of Derbyshire's best known landmarks, it's 228 feet high and leans 9 feet 6 inches from its true centre.

Wombwell, mentioned in the Doomsday Survey of 1086 as Wambella, increased its population dramatically in the 19th century with the development of coal mines and other industries.

A Grade I listed church dating back to the 12th century.

‘Few churches in South Yorkshire contain more that may delay and interest the curious inquirer than this country chapel’. so the great historian Joseph Hunter wrote in 1831.

A gorgeous church, sitting on a knoll above this Peak District village, and site of the grave of Little John.

The present church is the third built in the village. An old ruined chapel, thought to have been sited near Pule Hill, was recorded in 1650.

The first church of All Saints was consecrated by the Archbishop of York in 1900.

The first Roman Catholic priest appointed in Denaby Main was Father Kavanagh in 1894. Services took place in a disused schoolroom near the railway.

This lovely church, a shrine of great antiquity, hallowed by over 900 years of prayer and praise, is possibly one of the oldest churches in South Yorkshire.

Although there has been a church on this site for over 600 years, the building has been altered several times and what you see today is essentially a 14th century tower with a Victorian nave and apse.