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Ballidon, Derbyshire, is an undiscovered gem in the care of The Friends of Friendless Churches. In this Blog I outline the main features of the church. Ballidon is an area of great antiquity. There are remains of Neolithic and Bronze Age barrows...

John Vigar`s Church Day VisitsTuesday March 17th 2020Coach DepartsTonbridge School 0830Maidstone West Station 0930Rochester, Star Hill 0950We visit Ramsgate, Holy Trinity and Ramsgate, St GeorgeThere will be free time for lunch in RamsgateIn the afte...

Monday 9th December promised fine weather, so I had arranged to meet my friend Gary from Lincoln and to go on a churchcrawl to 12 churches. We met at Horncastle, a lovely little town with a stately, though Victorianised, church.Our first target was L...

This week marks the 316th anniversary of one of the worst storms recorded in England. About a third of our naval ships were lost at sea whilst on land destruction was on a huge scale. In London alone 2000 chimneystacks collapsed with great loss of li...