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St Peter's Church, Plemstall

by Alec and Val Scaresbrook

At Mickle Trafford, follow the lane beneath the railway line to reach this lonely 15th century church by the River Gowy.

There's never been a village here, and the church is said to owe its foundation to a fisherman washed ashore here; hence the name. On the left side of Plemstall Lane, close to the bridge, there's a spring called St Plegmund's Well, where tradition has it that the converted were baptised. The well was restored in the early 1900s. Plegmund was a cleric who lived here as a hermit in the second half of the 9th century. He was summoned to court by King Alfred the Great when he ascended the throne, to act as his tutor. Plegmund became Archbishop of Canterbury in 890 and when he died in 914 he was buried in the cathedral. See the map below