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This will be the first church that many people visit when exploring the beautiful and aptly named Golden Valley.

The picture postcard village of Lacock is indelibly linked with the pioneering photographer William Henry Fox Talbot, whose family home was Lacock Abbey.

Bacton church has the nationally important Blanche Parry memorial, a beautiful copy of the priceless Bacton Altar Cloth, the only surviving piece from the Queen Elizabeth I dresses.

A Victorian country church completed in 1856, built in Bath stone in the English Gothic style and set in the centre o the village, this was the first church to be designed by the architect Frederick Bodley, a student of Sir George Gilbert Scott.

So often with Herefordshire churches setting plays a huge part in the impact of the building.

Close to the book town of Hay on Wye, St Mary’s has some original Norman features including the blocked up ‘devils door’ in the north wall.

Lacock Abbey is packed with history, starting first as an abbey and nunnery, then became a Tudor family home.

The Priory is one of the longest parish churches in the country at 311ft, and has been a place of worship for centuries and offers peace and calm and an opportunity for prayer.

Hidden down lane, across stream, up a bank.

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

The church, which has some Saxon features, has been at the heart of the community for over 900 years.

Tucked in beside the great Cistercian abbey, with the grave of Wales’s greatest love poet.