St Mary Church, West Worlington

The church sits quietly on the edge of West Worlington, a small Devon village that most people drive straight through without noticing. St Mary is what you'd call a proper country church - the kind where the roof might need looking at and the churchyard has gravestones at odd angles, but there's real character in those worn stone walls.

Inside, the light comes through old windows and hits medieval features that have survived centuries of English weather. It's not going to take you long - maybe twenty minutes if you're thorough - but it rewards a closer look if you care about that sort of thing. The sort of place where you can actually hear yourself think, which feels increasingly rare.

Walkers will find it worth a detour if you're rambling in the area around Crediton. There's something satisfying about tracking down a small medieval church rather than queuing at the big attractions everyone's already done. Families with older kids who aren't completely allergic to history might appreciate it; young children will get bored within minutes unless you make a game of reading old gravestone inscriptions.

It's free to visit, though the doors aren't always open - worth checking locally. If you're based at Yeatheridge Farm Caravan Park nearby, it's barely ten minutes away and makes a sensible morning walk before heading elsewhere. The real appeal isn't the building itself so much as what it represents: that sense of stumbling onto something genuinely local that tourists don't usually find.