Churches
The Anglican parish church is St Bartholomew's. The clock on its steeple was converted to electronic mechanism in June 2008 (previously being wound by hand). There is also the redundant Church of St Peter which was probably built as a private chapel for the bishops of London who then owned the village.
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“What after all are these churches now if they are not the tombs and sepulchers of God?”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
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