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Cartmel has been described as the medieval jewel among churches, making a lasting impression on the visitor, overshadowing the village as it does and giving an idea of the way early priories must have dominated their surroundings.

St Wilfrid's is a beautiful historic church on the river Lune, it is well known for its unique Viking cross which stands in the churchyard and has Pagan and Christian carving.

The earliest record of Christianity in the area round Keighley dates from 867 AD, when Archbishop Wulfhere of York fled from marauding Danes to Addingham.

A late Georgian independent chapel, surrounding by fields and farms on the Lancashire/Yorkshire border which was founded in 1816 by farm workers at the nearby Martin Top Farm.

The church of the Holy Redeemer is unique in two ways. It was the first parish church to be built in York after the Second World War, and stones from the ancient church of St Mary the Elder, Bishophill have been skilfully by the architect George Pace.

The church is in the centre of the village, surrounded by beautiful grounds which include a small Garden of Remembrance.

The core of the present church, one of the best surviving Anglo Saxon buildings in West Yorkshire, was built about 1200 years ago, and much remains of the tall narrow Saxon nave and tower.

The first Christian converts were baptised in the River Derwent in 627 AD by St Paulinus, one of the second batch of Roman missionary monks sent by Pope Gregory to convert Britain.

 The first records of the church indicate it was rebuilt some time after 1066 by the Lord of the Manor, William Paganel, who gave it, with other possessions of his, to Drax Priory in the time of Archbishop Thurstan (1119–1140).

The chapel’s first minister appointed in 1695 rejoiced in the name of Accepted Lister.

A little church with a long name, the walls are made of reused Roman stones, we are only a mile or so south of the wall.