About Us

The Benefice consists of the small town of Dulverton and four other parishes. The overall nature of the community is very rural with agriculture and related processes still playing an important role. The overall population is about 5,000 people. We are fortunate to be living in such a beautiful area.

All of the parishes are located in the Exmoor National Park. Dulverton is the only town within the National Park. Each of the remaining four parishes are made up of a principal village with surrounding small settlements which traditionally had small scale livestock farms as their core economic activity.

There have been christian communities in this area for more than 1500 years. Some parts of the church buildings go back to the 12th century. In the current times, congregations are smaller in number. Nonetheless, the churches and their members are fully engaged in community life and actively live out the christian values.