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The church sits in a hollow amidst the rolling hills of the Wolds situated between Bigby and Grasby.

St John the Baptist, nestling in the rural Lincolnshire Wolds, tells the story of Sir Henry Vane, one of the first Governors of Massachusetts USA.

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

A romantic church that stands alone, shorn of its former medieval village, looking out across the Capability Brown landscape of 1760’s toward Fawsley Hall, the seat of the Knightley family and now a country hotel.

A place of worship has stood on the site for 900 years although the present building, built of local greenstone, is mainly 14th century.

One of the outstanding late medieval churches in the county.

The village was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as ‘Ferlei’ or ‘Fereleia’ which is thought to mean either ‘lea of the ferns’ or ‘the far lea’.

The first documentary evidence for the existence of Bugbrooke is the Domesday Book of 1086, although there is no reference to there being a church then.

All Saints is a 13th century church restored in 1779 and 1878, it is built of soft stone which in places has eroded to show fossilised remains.

Built to the orders of one man, Anthony Catesby (1500-1554) of the significant Northamptonshire Catholic family whose main seat was at Ashby St Ledger and were later famous for their involvement in the Gunpowder Plot.