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Opened for worship in 1776, the church is most famously associated with William Wilberforce and the group of friends known to history as 'the Clapham Sect'.

St Mary’s church gleams a golden hue in the setting sunlight which takes your breath away, even without its once high spire it dominates the village scape and stands out above everything else in the Steeple Ashton vale.

A Norman (12th century) church, St Mary’s is rich in interesting features including the famous ‘Bed Bug’ weather vane which is said to have been put there to commemorate King John’s fateful visit to the village.

Reaching St Peter's is a small adventure, leaving the modern world behind as you gets closer to the sea.

Trefin (probably derived from Tref (farmstead) and Ddyn (high ground) lies amid an area rich in early archaeology, including the remains of the Neolithic Chambered tomb at Carreg Samson, so called due to the legend of St Samson having placed the cap stone in position with his little finger.

We warmly welcome visitors at Rye Lane Baptist Chapel; it is a Grade II listed building which boasts historical features in a fine Victorian nonconformist building.

Christ Church was built in 1849 as the daughter church of St Alfege in West Greenwich.

There has been a church here for over a thousand years, dedicated to the memory of Alfege, the Archbishop of Canterbury who was martyred on this site in 1012.

It is believed that there has been a church on this site since the 9th century or even earlier, St Mary Magdalene stands at the end of a spur of high ground, which reaches out northwards towards the River Thames.