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The long history of St Mary's opened a new chapter during the construction of Rutland Water when it became linked with the neighbouring church of St Matthew.

Victorian decorative genius.

Thousands of people come here every year to see the grave of poet Dylan Thomas, marked by a simple white cross.

Stilton has always been an important place geographically, situated at the side of a major Roman road, Ermine Street, and the area around Stilton and Folksworth was also the site of a major Prisoner of War Camp from Napoleonic times.

The first known reference to the village is in 1070 as Stantona, an enclosed settlement of stoney ground.

Famously described by Sir John Betjeman as the ‘least spoilt church in Cornwall’, the building dates back to the late 15th century, with fragments of an earlier 14th century church incorporated into the current structure.

A trend setting thatched church.

St Peter & St Paul is a medieval parish church sat next to the medway, a beautiful example of medieval worship.

The hilltop setting of St Andrew's ensured its preservation when much of its parish disappeared beneath Rutland Water in the 1970s.

In a conservation area in the tiny village of Frisby on the Wreake (255 houses), near the market town of Melton Mowbray, the church is as delightful as it sounds.