St. Andrew’sGrinton
St. Mary’sArkengarthdale
St. Mary’s Muker
Holy TrinityMelbecks
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Revd. Caroline Hewlett (and friend)
The header photographs are by Chris Goldthorpe.The sequence of photographs, “Around our Parish”, is by Jonathan Dawson
The Parish of
Swaledale with Arkengarthdale
Christianity was brought to the Dales in the early 12th Century by missionary monks from the monastic churches; priests fromBridlington Priory staffed Grinton Church, although it has Norman foundations. At first, Grinton served the whole of the upper Dale until a second church was built at Muker.A small church, owned by a convent in Teesdale, stood on a site at Arkle Town in Arkengarthdale.
