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Situated in open countryside on the north bank of the River Witham, the parish derives its name from a spring which sends water to the nearby River Witham.

‘Few churches in South Yorkshire contain more that may delay and interest the curious inquirer than this country chapel’. so the great historian Joseph Hunter wrote in 1831.

A tiny, ancient church perched near the sea in the quiet of remotest north Anglesey.

A 19th century building with tastefully done 20th century reordering.

St Mary in the Baum, on St Mary's Gate, was founded in 1740 as a chapel of ease to minister to the people living north of the River Roch.

Regarded as one of the finest but least known gems of ecclesiastical architecture in the country, it is a Gothic gem set in a diamond.

The Society of Friends emerged in the 1650s, a time of great religious turmoil.

On the 15th century tower is a unique, one handed clock, painted direct onto the stonework, 16.5 feet in diameter and the hand is 9 feet long.

The church was founded in 1796 and is an attractive Grade II listing building.

Christ Church is a splendid Victorian church, built in the decorated style in 1855, when the communities of Brampton and West Melton were growing fast with the expansion of coal mining.

Denby was a Danish settlement dating back to the 9th century and mentioned in the Domesday Book.

The outstanding feature of the church is the stunning murals in the chancel painted in 1904-5 by the Edinburgh artist Phoebe Anna Traquair.