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Dedicated to a saint with connections to King Arthur and a popular pilgrimage site during the Middle Ages, St Derfel's is famous for its 'fasting woman' and its medieval relic that has a connection to a grisly execution.

This long, low church, with its rather dumpy 13th century tower, is an unlikely but harmonious mix of styles.

Stainton was first recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as ‘Stantone with Helgebi’ (Hellaby).

The church dates from around 1300 but it is the intervention of the Spencer family of nearby Althorp that transformed the medieval building. Sir John Spencer (d1522) rebuilt the chancel and commenced the funerary chapel that lies adjacent to it.

With a population of barely 40 people, the village of Teigh (pronounced like 'tea') has an appropriately small but most unusual church.

Great Houghton is part of the Barnsley Methodist Circuit.

Mexborough parish church is very ancient in origin. Documents show that a church was on this site shortly after the Norman Conquest in 1066.

An inspiring place of pilgrimage for centuries and visited by St Winifred en route from Holywell to Gwytherin, where she would become abbess and end her life.

Why not come and wander, imagining how grand this priory once was from its walls, still laid out in local sandstone.