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Kent's finest Norman church, with some of the best Norman decorative stonework in Britain.

Gazing across the River Dart from Kingswear, you can see the ancient church of St Saviour.

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

Long, low and with a battlemented and buttressed tower, St George's is built on a grand scale, and was perhaps always larger than its rural agricultural population ever actually needed.

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 1287 a catastrophic storm smashed its way across the Romney Marshes, causing incalculable damage and smothering New Romney in tons of sand, gravel and silt.

One of the oldest meeting houses in the country still in use today.

A landmark church that still rings a curfew.

For almost 800 years the village of Diptford has had a church at its centre.

St Petrox church at the mouth of the river is the oldest of the three parish churches, the earliest reference being in 1192 when it is thought to have been referred to in a deed as the 'monastery of St Peter'.

Although there was an important Saxon church here, the present building dates mainly from the 1130s.

Set in one of Kent's prettiest little towns, St Clement's stands next to the ramparts of what was a Cinque port until the river silted up and left the town stranded.