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St Saviour’s is the memorial church to Parkin Jeffcock, a mining engineer who was killed during rescue operations after the Oaks Colliery Disaster in 1866.

The church building occupies a dominant site in the village.

The name Elsecar is thought to mean ‘Elsi’s marsh’. Elsi was a Saxon lord who owned land here and ‘car’ is an old word for low, swampy ground.

Garvald Church is a beautiful parish church in an idyllic rural setting and with a historic connection to St Mary’s Abbey in Haddington, many finely carved gravestones, two burial aisles and a rare mort house.

Hooton Pagnell was recorded in the Domesday Survey, although there is no mention of a church we know one existed as in 1089 Ralph Paganel granted the church to the Priory of Holy Trinity in York.

A tall tower and wonderful views.

A church has stood on this site since pre Saxon times.

Built as a private chapel for the Hibbert family, St Catherine’s has a unique oddity; its furnishings are all older than the building itself.

A church has stood here for around 1,000 years although what is seen today is largely the result of an outstanding rebuild in 1907-08 by architect Sydney Mitchell.