English Heritage sites near Gidleigh Parish
GRIMSPOUND
5 miles from Gidleigh Parish
The best known of many Dartmoor prehistoric settlements, Grimspound dates from the late Bronze Age. The remains of 24 stone houses survive within a massive boundary wall.
OKEHAMPTON CASTLE
6 miles from Gidleigh Parish
Once the largest castle in Devon, nestling in the foothills of Dartmoor. Reputedly haunted and mentioned in the Domesday Book.
HOUND TOR DESERTED MEDIEVAL VILLAGE
8 miles from Gidleigh Parish
The remains of four 13th century stone farmsteads, on land originally farmed in the Bronze Age. This isolated Dartmoor hamlet was probably abandoned in the early 15th century.
LYDFORD CASTLE AND SAXON TOWN
10 miles from Gidleigh Parish
Beautifully sited on the fringe of Dartmoor, Lydford boasts three defensive features. Near the centre is a 13th-century tower on a mound, built as a prison.
MERRIVALE PREHISTORIC SETTLEMENT
11 miles from Gidleigh Parish
The group of monuments at Merrivale is one of the finest on Dartmoor: side by side here are the remains of a Bronze Age settlement and a complex of ritual sites.
UPPER PLYM VALLEY
14 miles from Gidleigh Parish
This extraordinary landscape encompasses some 300 Bronze Age and medieval sites, covering 15 square kilometres (6 square miles) of Dartmoor.
Churches in Gidleigh Parish
Holy Trinity
Gidleigh
Newton Abbot
(01647) 432265
The Church of the Holy Trinity at Gidleigh is a beautful Dartmoor church of Saxon origins, completely rebuilt in the late 15th and early 16th centuries (with some later additions). It is open every day of the year. Our churchyard is one of a very few in the UK which includes a stream and we also have a small castle next door.
Holy Trinity belongs to the family of churches called the North Dartmoor parishes in the Diocese of Exeter. We are a FairTrade church. We host a range of worship - from celebrating Lammas to Book of Common Prayer Communion (3rd Sunday, 8.30am) and an Easter vigil on Holy Saturday, as well as major community events like The Gidleigh Passion. We offer teas in the summer - Sunday afternoons, contact us for details - and hope you might drop by.
As well as being open every day of the year, weekly worship is available every Sunday online; just look for the Youtube channel Chagford Church Online for the North Dartmoor Parishes www.youtube.com<span style="font-size: 1rem;">
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<span style="font-size: 1rem;">Visitors of all traditions and none are very welcome here and we pray that you may know God's blessing in this place of peace and beauty.</span>
Revd Paul Seaton-Burn
Team Rector
No churches found in Gidleigh Parish