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Today, the Brough of Birsay is a small tidal island off the Orkney mainland. Between the 600s and 1200s AD, the area was settled by the Picts and Norse.

The tiny village is home to an historic Quaker meeting house, a cob and straw thatch building dating from 1710 and containing glass dating from 1640.

When you walk through the door of St Stephen, Treleigh, you will be dazzled by the array of green and gold kneelers completed in the 1970s and the beauty of the Hawthorn window, dedicated to Revd Arthur Hawthorn who was vicar from 1941 to 1958.

St Euny is at the heart of an important mining landscape, amid many impressive reminders of mines, stamps and engine houses all within a mile of this spot.

The parish is named after the Cornish word for water 'Dowr' and lies near the point where two rivers meet.

St Weneppa, Gwennap is founded on a Celtic monastery thought to date from the late 5th century.

Known as 'the Ancient Church by the Sea' the parish church of Gerrans is the dominant feature of the local landscape, standing on the brow of a hill overlooking the sea.

The current church building dates from the 13th century. It was consecrated by Bishop Walter Bronescombe on the 14th August 1261.