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Hidden in the hills only four miles north and slightly west of the ancient city of Bath, the village of Woolley dates back to Saxon times and a visit to this most tranquil hamlet is a most uplifting experience.

This ancient village was on the pilgrimage route to Bury St Edmunds and is full of history and legend.

It is believed that there has been a church on this site since the 9th century or even earlier, St Mary Magdalene stands at the end of a spur of high ground, which reaches out northwards towards the River Thames.

Believed to be the oldest church in Worcester.

A gracious church for gentlefolk.

A thousand year old wall carving, a 17th century Fox’s Book of Martyrs hidden within its walls, 14th century Crusader crosses and a 15th century skull from the the War of the Roses.

A tiny church with ancient origins.

‘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.

The church is a ‘noble edifice in the early English style of Gothic architecture’from which the view is beautiful, over Worsbrough reservoir to Wortley, Stainborough Park and Worsbrough Park.

An impressive 14th and 15th century flint church in Worstead, built on the proceeds of the medieval wool trade.

Exceptional Norman church.

One of the most powerful of Anglo Saxon churches in England, large in scale and bold in conception.