St Mary's Church

The tower of St Mary's rises above March's flat Fenland landscape like a proper anchor point - you can spot it from miles away across the fields. This is a working parish church with real medieval bones, the sort of place where you'll find locals at Sunday service and the smell of old stone and candle wax hanging in the air.

What you get is a late medieval church that's been worked on and reworked over the centuries. The interior has some decent carved roof bosses if you're into that sort of detail, and the church sits in a graveyard that tells you something about who lived and died in March over the past few hundred years. It's not flashy or overwhelming - just solid, functional, and genuinely atmospheric in the way only old English churches can be.

This works best for anyone interested in local history or church architecture, though it's brief - you'll spend thirty minutes here maximum unless you're the type who reads every memorial on the walls. It's free to wander in during daylight hours, though opening times aren't guaranteed so check locally first.

Fit it into a caravan trip around the Nene Valley easily enough. Ferry Meadows and Knightsbridge are both within spitting distance, and you're close to Grafham Water if you want something outdoorsy after. March itself is a working market town - nothing touristy, but that's partly the appeal. Come for the history, stay for somewhere quiet that isn't trying too hard.