St Mary Magdalene

A Grade I listed church whose tower and nave date from the 14th century.

Its principal characteristics are its relative isolation, its simplicity, its sense of timelessness and of history, its peaceful atmosphere, and its position. For the historian there are listed monuments in the churchyard and on the inside walls of the tower. An ideal waypoint for cyclists and walkers before tackling the steep and winding Batcombe hill.

It has been asserted that the village of Batcombe lies on the route that St Aldhelm (8th century) would have taken on his way from Bradford on Avon to Abbotsbury.