Peter Fluck is rector of the biggest Church of England parish group in the country, spreading across 70 square miles of Lincolnshire. It includes ten churches, 16 villages and a population of 700, fewer than lived in one village alone at the turn of the century. Mechanisation has seen the people off the land. The aged remain, and the rich and the high life.

Peter Fluck, a professional soldier before he became a priest, alone now where once there were nine ordained men, makes a resolute and cheerful defence of his far-flung and crumbling outposts.

BBC Manchester