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Valle Crucis was truly Welsh from the moment it was founded in 1201 by Prince Madog ap Gruffydd and the ‘white monks’ of the Cistercian order.

The first record of a church in Llangors comes from 1152, and its early medieval roots are revealed in its curved churchyard and location beside a stream, both common in early medieval foundations in Wales.

All Saints is on a quiet road that must once have been the original route linking the small harbours at Clarach, Wallog and Borth to the port at Aberystwyth.

A wonderful Welsh church with a 6th century foundation, and there the village (famed across Wales for its sheltered beach and tasty fish and chips) grew up around the church.

A Victorian country church completed in 1856, built in Bath stone in the English Gothic style and set in the centre o the village, this was the first church to be designed by the architect Frederick Bodley, a student of Sir George Gilbert Scott.

It may seem an odd and perilous place to build a church, but St Cwyfan's originally stood at the end of a peninsula between two bays, as shown on John Speed's map of Anglesey from 1636.

Medieval wall paintings and a holy well.

A place of peace and sanctuary just off the Offa's Dyke and ideal rest stop for the weary to refresh both body and soul.

A simple village church in an ancient elevated churchyard, in a stunning setting with views up the valley and to the surrounding hills.

The only church dedicated to St Idloes, a 7th century saint about whom very little is known

Built in 1878, to the design of architect John Humphries of Morriston, and described as the ‘Cathedral of Welsh Non-Conformity’.

Llanllugan Abbey was founded by Maredudd ap Rhobert, lord of Cydewain, it was the only religious house for women in North Wales and the former abbey church now serves as the parish church.