St Giles church stands in a wooded glade, about a half mile north of the National Trust manor of Packwood House. The woodland should not be a surprise, for Packwood is part of that vast ancient woodland known as the Forest of Arden. We do not know when the first church was built here, but it may have been the late Saxon period.
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"The church of St Bega in Bassenthwaite must be one of the beautifully situated in Cumbria. Certainly Alfred, Lord Tennyson was inspired by the church, and describes it in the opening lines of his epic poem, 'Morte d'Arthur'. The church dates to at least 950 AD, and possibly marks the spot where the Irish nun, St Bega stayed in the 7th century."
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