St Derfel

This ancient site has a potential timeline dating back as far as the Bronze Age. Certainly pre Christian and possibly an Iron Age settlement, it later became known as a burial place of Saints.

A typical little Welsh church, looking as though it has grown out of the bones of the hillside, with some striking medieval stained glass and seventeenth-century woodwork.

In a tiny hamlet right on the Welsh border, is a very special church, black and white both inside and out, and wonderfully picturesque and rustic looking.
There has been a place of Christian worship in Melverley for about a 1000 years. In 1141 Ordericus Vitalis mentions a ‘wooden chapel on the banks of the river above Shrewsbury'. In 1401 this church was burnt by the Welsh chieftain Owain Glyndwr. It was rebuilt in 1406 from local oak.