 St. Giles’s stood alone in the fields, surrounded by dense woods, fields, livestock and crops.For 460 years St Giles’s was kept open for worship by the families living at the three farms and by worshippers from neighbouring villages including Whaddon, Newton Longville, Shenley and Loughton.They walked across the fields on summer Sunday evenings to make sure the church stayed in use for worship and for future generations.