Well now,"Penny S "---
            I don't know what part of Sussex you hail from, but I grew up at Cowdray Park (yes, I lived in Cowdray House !), Midhurst ---although it was actually in the parish of Easebourne . I sang in the choir of the church in Easebourne, and yes, I was ASTOUNDED and ASTONISHED and quite unsettled when, on attending a choir festival in Chichester Cathedral, I was confronted ,for the first time,with such alien (to me ) practices as the burning of Incense ( Shock !! Horror !!) and the playing of music by a BRASS ENSEMBLE ! ( more Shock ! More Horror !). So I take your point !
    Also, I had bad warts,which were "charmed" away from me by a local "mystic" from the village, which was something that no amount of praying in Church ever achieved !!
    I enjoy "Larkrise to Candleford", but a lot of it IS utter Bollocks !!!