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St Bartholomew's dates back more than a 1,000 years and is in the centre of the historic village of Maresfield in East Sussex.

Like Barfreston, only a few miles to the south east, Patrixbourne has an important Norman church.

The church looks down through its quiet rural village towards Milton Abbey.

In the late 1200s the Archbishop of Canterbury established a college here for a master and six canons (priests), which accounts for the large size of this church, and also accounts for the timber framed houses opposite, which were where the master and his canons lived.

St Paul’s church at Bisterne was designated a chapel of ease, three miles south of the parish church

Queen Victoria worshipped in the church as a child when on holiday, the east window is a memorial to her and the clock was installed to commemorate her Diamond Jubilee.

This is a real refuge from the hurly burly. Parts of the original Saxon church can be made out in the tower, and there is much else of interest both inside and outside.

People have been worshipping in this beautiful place for over a thousand years, the church dates back to the 13th century and there is a real feeling of tranquillity and spirituality here standing on the bank of the River Stour.

St Philip's was designed and built by the famous architect Sir Ninian Comper.

Milton Abbey occupies probably the most beautiful setting of any church in the county of Dorset, resting in a natural amphitheater surrounded by wooded hills, seemingly miles from anywhere.

The epitome of a peaceful rural church standing on its own at the head of the beautiful and peaceful Wriggle Valley.