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A fine example of a medieval church with later alterations and additions, St Mary’s is light and attractive and includes a lady chapel and two notable memorials.

A casualty of Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries, the only remaining part of the 12th century Premonstratensian Blanchland Abbey is part of the abbey church which today serves the parish of Blanchland.

Blanchland got its name from the white habits worn by monks of the Premonstratensian order who founded Blanchland Abbey.

St Peter & St Paul is arguably the best Georgian church outside London and stands at the very heart of its community.

The church traces its history back to 1661 when after the Act of Uniformity, Revd William Alleine, who had been appointed to Blandford Parish Church in 1650 was forced to resign his living.

A plum pudding for old men.

St Peter’s is a modest rural church within the Suffolk Sandlings Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and bounded by a SSSI.

The church has an idyllic setting within a quintessential English country churchyard.

The church has an idyllic setting within a quintessential English country churchyard.

Bleddfa means 'the abode of wolves', and wolves were still to be found in Radnor Forest until Tudor times.

Only the west tower from the medieval 15th century church survives, the rest was built in 1739 by Rhodes of Barlborough and 1839 by Colvin.

Full of human interest and interwoven with the people of this place for more than a thousand years, the church has survived good times and bad, and in the process has been altered, extended, and embellished.