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On a gentle hill in the village of Eyam in Derbyshire’s beautiful Peak District, Eyam is noted for the historical reality of the plague in 1665-66.

A 12th century church retaining its full integrity, setting and atmosphere within a small hamlet on the edge of the Cotswolds, and the home and burial place of renowned conservationists and authors Tom and Sonia Rolt.

A Victorian gem at the southern end of the Pennine Way.

It is unusual enough to see a church with both a tower and a steeple (there are only three in England) but this church is unique in having them placed at the same end.

St Andrew’s church is Grade II listed, which was built around 1200 and restored in 1876.

Built on a Saxon foundation that may date back to the 700s, the present church takes character from the 1170s, when it was rebuilt by the Normans and transformed into a large and splendid building.

Seion Chapel was opened in 1878.The designer was Richard Owen of Wall, Liverpool and is fairly typical of nonconformist chapels of that period.

Medieval wall paintings and tomb carvings in a church which has completely escaped modernisation.

This impressive stone built church perches atop War Hill, the site of a battle between invading Normans and the local Saxons, it is believed that those killed were buried here and a place of worship established.

Prestwich is not mentioned in the Domesday Book but there is evidence of a church on the site from at least 1200.

Very largely Early English in character; the nave and the two aisles dating from the beginning of the 14th century or slightly earlier.

Built 1886-90 by Nicholson of Hereford on land given by WE Powell of Nanteos, it replaced a church of 1833 by Edward Haycock of Shrewsbury.