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A medieval landmark in one of Cornwall's historically most important towns, featuring a bizarre and fascinating stone font.

St Hydroc is situated adjacent to Lanhydrock House, the major National Trust property in Cornwall and it contains the monuments and burials of the Estate families.

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.

Light floods into this welcoming and uplifting church, with its historic connections to the Knights Templar and the very first European settlers in America.

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 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.

This little church has a Norman core, but was altered and extended in the 13th century.

Thought to be an early 19th century rebuilding of a medieval church although no perceptible early fabric remains.

Elmstead is little more than a group of farms clustered round their church on the North Downs.

The Breckland town of Mildenhall was well on the way to prosperity by the time of the Norman Conquest.