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Bethel Baptist Church dates from 1876. Link.

Ebenezer Evangelical Church.

Hope-Penuel Presbyterian Church.

St. Paul (CiW, 1895).

The former Tabernacle Independent Chapel (1892).

Wesleyan Methodist Church. A stone in the gable is inscribed "Bible Christian Methodist AD 1899". Gervase advises that the Bible Christians are most known for their Cornish links. Perhaps Cornish miners moved here for work when the collieries were being developed.