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St Winnow, sitting on an ancient riverside Celtic site on the upper reaches of the River Fowey, is renowned as a place of peace, pilgrimage and spiritual refreshment.

A hermit’s hut, chapel or church has stood on this site for at least 1500 years, and St Sampson’s lies on the ancient Saints Way along which many of the Celtic Saints came from Padstow to Fowey, thus avoiding a perilous sea route around Land’s End.

The church dates from around 1450 and is built of red sandstone, with a tall, typically Somerset tower and contains a fabulous rood turret housing the spiral stair leading to the top of the rood screen.

Prominently positioned on the eastern approach to Wadebridge and close to the River Camel, this Grade I Listed church is set within an almost circular, walled, burial ground and framed by chestnut and other trees and flowering shrubs.

Gunwen Methodist Church was built 1869, it lies two miles north of Luxulyan adjacent to Breney Common Nature Reserve and looks towards Helman Tor and is lovely country for a picnic.

The story goes that St Wyllow, a Christian hermit, was living nearby in 596, legend has it that he was killed beheaded but that he brought the head here, thus deciding where the church should be built.

St Minver is the parish church for a large and enormously popular holiday area, including all the Camel Estuary from Polzeath to Daymer Bay and on to Rock.

The church is situated alongside a stream in the picturesque and secluded valley of Nansent in the hamlet of St Breock, about a mile west of Wadebridge town centre.

A place of peace and tranquility.