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The exterior of St Mary's successfully blends elegant Perpendicular lines with rustic stone, partly fieldstone and partly a type of deep golden green sand known as carstone, which came from a nearby quarry known as The Butts.

Discover the beautiful church of St John the Baptist, with its medieval origins and beautiful Victorian restoration, including installing some stunning tracery and stained glass.

The church is a peaceful haven beside the Pennine Way with a wildlife conservation project in the churchyard.

Mount Zion Chapel was opened in 1876, the same year in which the Midland Railway Company opened the famous Settle to Carlisle railway, serving the local community of railway employees and farmers.

It is thought that two stone mason brothers built this primitive Methodist chapel and the adjoining 3 cottages in 1841, in what is now known as The Street.

This impressive Palladian chapel stands proudly in the grounds of Gibside House, which was once owned by the Bowes-Lyons family, relations of the late Queen Mother.

St Edmund's is a rare example of a 13th century pilgrim's chapel and is also the home of a new gallery.

A rather unassuming village church on the outside but containing a wealth of interest and heritage within its walls, but there also lies a hidden story of murder and intrigue.

On entering the church stand for a moment and take in the excellent proportions of the building with its limestone nave built in 1430 and the chancel and tower of pink sandstone, constructed in 1480.

Built by the Wrighte family in the 1720s in the style of a Georgian Reception Hall to match the development of Gayhurst Manor.

So small in fact it doesn’t appear on some of the larger scale maps, the brick church of St Peter sits peacefully on the hillside of this rural hamlet.

A very early church with a Norman tower incorporating a late Saxon door case and, inside, a Norman font.