St Helen

Gayton le Wold is a small village nestling in the Lincolnshire Wolds, to the west of the market town of Louth. So small in fact it doesn't appear on some of the larger scale maps. The brick church of St Peter sits peacefully on the hillside of this rural hamlet. It is hard to believe that only 150 years ago the Wesleyans and Free Methodists also had chapels situated in this tiny village.

More than fifty grotesque and medieval faces perched high in the steeple are waiting to greet you as you arrive at this tiny Victorian church. The best way to approach St Helen's is by foot, walking the Viking Way through the gentle rolling Lincolnshire Wolds.

The church of the flying hassocks! A pretty Early English church nestling in a delightful Wolds village situated on the long distance Viking Way walk. Apparently it was the custom at weddings in this church to pelt the bridal party with hassocks as it entered the church, but this practice came to an end when one of the rectors, was on the receiving end of one of the hassocks!