Michael Yelton, who has previously written about Anglo-Papalism, Alfred Hope Patten, the reviver of the Anglican shrine at Walsingham, and Martin Travers the architect of Anglo-Catholicism, has now turned to rural Anglo-Catholicism. The book comprises ten essays on rural parishes mainly in the south-west and the eastern counties, written after visiting the parishes, conducting interviews with former parishioners and undertaking archival research. The author's intention is not to draw any conclusions; however an introductory essay would have been useful, drawing together the threads of this story. Three essays focus on prominent personalities in the Anglo-Catholic revival, Athelstan Riley, Samuel Gurney (both laymen) and Maurice Child. The rest describe the doings of a varied collection of parish priests. Money, affability and a family helped a few to win rural populations to radical liturgical and devotional change. Fr Lowe at Throwleigh even built houses to rent to people seeking ‘full catholic privileges’. Networks of friendship and membership of societies emerge as important in supporting morale among the more geographically and theologically isolated clergy, some of whom propagated their theological views by writing and publishing ventures. Most were autocratic: at Throwleigh a parochial church council, required in every parish by the Enabling Act of 1919, was only established after 1969. All indulged in elaborate interior redecoration schemes for their churches, often using the same architects. None made a lasting impact on the tradition of their parishes. Yelton helpfully illustrates the significant differences between Anglo-Catholics and Anglo-Papalists.