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In 2019 the church celebrated its 150th Anniversary continuing the worship started in Saxon times.

St Mary Magdalene, Leinthall Starkes is known locally as'the church in the field' due to its location half a mile outside the current village down a long sloping grass track.

Robert de Basford or de Ashby founded a Cistercian priory at Catesby in c1175 and endowed it partly with income from Basford, it is one of only four churches in England dedicated to St Leodegarius.

St Martin’s, dubbed the ‘hidden gem’ in Marple, is a simple Pennine sandstone building in the Arts & Crafts style, with windows and artefacts from that era.

Credit: David Hallam Jones CC-BY-SA2.0

A church of Norman origin set in a historical landscape of Manor House, Tithe Barn, dovecote, almshouse and ancient deer park.