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The first chapel on this site was a meeting room in a building also used as a pub called The Plough, which stood here in the 17th century.

A rare attractive example of an inland canal port, it became important after the opening of the Trent and Mersey canal in 1777 and quickly developed into the largest inland canal port in the country.

St Mary's has occupied this site for over 900 years, although we are uncertain of the date of consecration.

A church on the edge of England.

St Martin's is a modern, safe and well maintained place of worship constructed in the late 1950s and is a community lead church.

This tiny, plain stone roofed building is about 11 feet by 8 feet, with walls two feet thick and, under the altar, St Trillo's holy well.

Dating from the 13th and 14th centuries, the church commands a large open space surrounded by pretty Georgian houses and as befitting this large village is quite large.

This was the first Cistercian foundation in England since the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 16th century.

St Edmund's church, Castleton, which has its beginnings in Norman times, provides a haven of peace and tranquillity in this busy tourist village.

St Mary’s is a Commissioners Church dating from 1839.

This pretty timber framed church stands to the west of the village of Great Altcar, it has been described by Pevsner as 'an utterly charming church'.

Built by Act of Parliament, a 1814, galleried Georgian interior with vault supported on cast iron pillars, and Victorian chancel with 1920 rood screen war memorial.