'Morland'

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Morland Beck flowing through the village adjacent to the main street, aptly named Water Street.

The Vale of Lyvennet has many charming villages and none more delightful than Morland. Happily remote from railway and motorway, privileged in its setting and enjoying the enviable tranquillity of an undisturbed countryside. The scenery everywhere is lovely, green fields being sheltered by woodlands and watered by pleasant streams, and the village street, through which flows Morland Beck, remains picturesque and unspoiled.

But the greatest of Morland's treasure is the Saxon Church of St Laurence. It is one of the loveliest in the county and parts of the fabric may well be the oldest masonry in any. The unbuttressed tower of mellow red sandstone, a joy to behold, has stood since the 11th century, before Norman builders brought their own styles of architecture; the nave and chancel are 13th. This is a church of which Morland's parishioners may rightly feel very proud. As doubtless they do.

Photos by Simon Ledingham.