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In a picturesque setting, the Grade I listed parish church is located on a steep bluff in the centre of the village at the end of a cobbled stone walk.

St Peter’s is an unusually large church for Devon, and is sometimes known as the little Cathedral of Devon.

In 1843 this was and still remains, the first and largest post reformation Catholic church to be built in Cornwall.

The mother church of Dartmouth and standing some 350ft above the main town on the narrow tract which, since ancient times, has been a right-of-way from the coast through Longcross to the River Dart crossing at Hardnesse.

In 739AD Aethelheard, king of the West Saxons, granted land for a monastery. In the early 900’s a cathedral was built, almost certainly of wood.

St Swithun is 500 years old in 2023 and sits in the centre of an ancient Saxon hill top village with some intriguing and beautiful ancient bench ends carved at the end of the 16th century.

St James is built on ‘holy ground where the saints of old worshipped untold centuries ago’.

The famous twisted spire of wooden shingles supports a fine peal of six bells.