VILLAGE CHURCHES AROUND THE PETERBOROUGH AREA

Thanks very much for looking at my web site, which is devoted to village churches within a 20 miles radius of Peterborough.

  This web site was inspired by following my football team, Stamford AFC, around the country. We travelled to some beautiful places, and always looked out for the quaint villages churches that we saw on the day. Often, looking out for the churches proved to be better than the football we saw, and a gradual interest was formed.

  During September 2006, after a visit to Cirencester, we stopped off at a couple of Cotswold villages, and took some photos of some beautiful churches.

  On the way home I got to thinking that perhaps it might be an idea to get together a collection of images from churches in and around the Peterborough area. There are some very lovely small villages in this area, and this site will be a photographic record of my travels. Photographs will also be included from fellow Peterborough Churchcrawler, Chris Stafford. My sincere thanks goes to Chris for providing these.

  When I started off this site I thought that it would be easy to draw a circle around Peterborough and take in all of the churches within that circle. However, as my interest grew and the number of places that I wanted to visit increased, the circle at times more resembled an onctagon!! A full list of churches to be covered by this site can be found by scrolling down to the Churches to visit page under the Welcome tab.

Pictured top left, church of St Martin at Barholm, South Lincs. below that, still on the left, St Andrews, West Deeping looks gorgeous at the side of the river Welland. . Not so gorgeous top right and a stone grotesque in need of some dental work at St Helens church Folksworth. Sandwiched in between the two and a nice gargoyle from the magnificent St Kyneburghas church Castor. Immediately below left and Saxon graves at Elton's All Saints church.To the right of that, Peterborough Churchcrawler and friend take breakfast together on a beautiful Spring morning in front of St Andrews church Cotterstock.

Below the photograph of the graves, Gargoyle andGrotesque from St Margaret, Luddington In The Brook, East Northants.

All of these photographs are taken by myself with the exception of the Folksworth gargoyle, which was taken by good friend of the site Chris Stafford.

As mentioned earlier, this site is mainly concerned with village churches within a 20 miles radius of Peterborough. I have taken a few liberties with this and have included one or two larger places, such as Crowland and Empingham but for the most part this site is not overly concerned with churches in larger built up areas.

  Churches are grouped alphabetically by county. To view a particular church just go to the appropriate county and then scroll down until you reach the place that you wish to see. In general, a church will be given a page each with exterior photographs and interior where possible. Some churches will, however, share a page with its neighbouring village.Counties included are Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, East Northants and Rutland.

  A list of churches included can be found by clicking on the page entitled, amazingly enough, "Churches Included" which can be found by scrolling down under the Welcome tab.

  The page entitled “Chris’s Travels” features photographs taken by fellow churchcrawler, and good friend of the site, Chris Stafford. I am very grateful to Chris for sending over his photographs to be used.

  Most recent site updates can be found by Scrolling down to the Recent Site Updates page under the Welcome tab. Any comments...then please leave a message on the message board, which can be found by scrolling down under the Welcome tab.

For the second week running, the Photograph Of The Week is a long range shot of a South Lincolnshire church, with the picture being taken during my recent cycling tour of that area.

  Last week it was Edenham in the gloom, this week it is a shot of the church at Aslackby (which is mystifyingly pronounced Azelby by the locals) in blinding sunshine.

  I had cycled up and down the A15 for most of the day, taking in a dozen churches. I took in this church fairly late in the day and on my way back to my bed and breakfast.

  The scene pictured was taken on the back road that connects Aslackby to neighbouring Kirkby Underwood. An exquisite part of South Lincs.

  Another picture from my holiday will be included here next Thursday evening.

   Robin Peel (site owner).

Over the last twelve months I have taken many hundreds of photographs, with the majority never being uploaded to my web site. Regular visitors to my site will probably know that I have a fondness for gargoyles and grotesques. Looking back through my digital images I realised that I had many pictures of gargoyles and grotesques that I would like to show, but just do not have the sapce for on this site.

  For that reason I have recently set up a web site, which will host galleries of gargoyle and grotesque photographs. This will contain pictures already published on this site, as well as many photographs that would otherwise have just remained on my computer.

  To visit this site, simply click on the photograph right.

This site, and my gargoyles and grotesques site, which is mentioned above, is basically just a snapshot album of my travels. You will not find any searing insight on church architecture...as I do not have any searing insights to give! Nearly everyone who travels around the countryside taking photographs of churches will doubtless have a better working knowledge of the sibject than myself! I enjoy getting out, enjoy taking photographs, and find a great interest in churches and churchyards. Where historical details from a church are included these have either been researched from the internet or gleaned from history booklets that are sometimes available in the churches.

If you have enjoyed looking at the site please let me know...and if you haven't enjoyed it please let me know again and say why so that I can try and make it better.

 A thank you is in order for those who have already contacted me and those who I have met on my travels and who have taken time out to show me things that I would otherwise have missed and made me welcome.

  If you would like to use any images for your own church then please let me know!

  Robin Peel Site Owner March 17th 2008.

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