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Historic St Thomas's church and fossil tree is in Stanhope, an area of outstanding natural beauty.

A traditional building with some beautiful features and offers an oasis of peace and calm after the bustle of the city outside.

The present church was built in the Decorated style in 1891 on the site of a previous Georgian church built in 1733 by Revesby Abbey estate owner Joseph Banks, the great grandfather of naturalist Sir Joseph Banks.

The church of the Catesby family, whose manor is famous for the Gunpowder Plot Room where the conspirators formulated their plan, and where Robert Catesby and Thomas Percy were supposedly felled by a single shot here.

The respected critic and historian Nikolaus Pevsner was much taken with St Patrick's; 'For sheer architectural beauty few parish churches in England can vie with Patrington'.

The church is made from a kaleidoscope of colours, greenstone, brick, limestone and red sandstone.

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

Said to be the smallest church in Lincolnshire and the only one dedicated to St. Olave, a Norwegian royal prince and the son of King Herald and Queen Aasta.

Even if you wanted to, there is no escaping the Shakespeare industry in Stratford.