Heptonstall is a small village in Yorkshire with a population of around 1500 living residents and over 100,000 deceased. Despite being a small village it houses 3 churches and 5 graveyards.

Heptonstall's original church was dedicated to St Thomas Becket. It was founded c.1260, and was altered and added to over several centuries. The church was damaged by a storm in 1847, and is now only a shell. A new church, St Thomas the Apostle, was built in the same churchyard and suffered a lightning strike in 1875 causing a pinnacle to fall off the top of the church.