There are thought to be some 8,000 pre-Reformation churches in England and every county can boast a fine selection of large and small parish churches. Despite declining attendance at church services, it is probably true that they have never been more visited, and church crawling is an increasingly popular pastime.This is the latest book to cater for this agreeable pursuit. It describes and illustrates some 50 churches, ranging from the great ironstone churches like Bloxham and Adderbury near Banbury to the flint and brick of the Chilterns and the splendid Cotswold churches of Burford and Chipping Norton. In 1974 the Government ripped some 80 parishes from the Berkshire downs and the Vale of White Horse and placed them in Oxfordshire, and these are also well represented.Richard Wheeler giv