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The parish church of St James dates from the 14th century with a 15th century tower.

Founded by St Peris in the 6th century, with Snowdon and its neighbouring mountains towering above it on all sides.

Sprotbrough is a Domesday Book village.

Built between 1902 and 1908, as Roundhay Congregational Church the Grade II listed buildings at St Andrew’s provide a fascinating insight both into the history of Congregationalism and the development of church architecture at the start of the 20th century.

The Bolsover Colliery Company gave the site and £3,000 for the building of this miners’church, in red brick, which was dedicated in 1928.

Built in 1975, St Philip’s is a small brick building with sloping roof bearing a single bell turret and a later extension.

The church was designed by Vernon Royle, who was much influenced by Sir Basil Spence’s three churches in Coventry.

Robert de Basford or de Ashby founded a Cistercian priory at Catesby in c1175 and endowed it partly with income from Basford, it is one of only four churches in England dedicated to St Leodegarius.

A thousand year old wall carving, a 17th century Fox’s Book of Martyrs hidden within its walls, 14th century Crusader crosses and a 15th century skull from the the War of the Roses.