R is for the Rongai Connection. Bawburgh has a close connection with a very different church, half a World away - by virtue of its name. The builders of a new church in the Rongai parish of Kenya, decided during 1955 to name their Scottish-style red-brick church, after the Patron Saint of Farmworkers - Saint Walstan. Although Rongai is a farming community, the similarities with our village and theirs, end there, for it is a "mother" church for 12 other churches, and the parish is enormous. It has a compound, in which there are offices, a caretakers house and a new Hall, which can accommodate 500 people. The area is very poor, but beautiful. We know this all at first hand, following the Markham's visit there in 1985, when a close liaison was built up. There is a flint from our own church, built within theirs, and we are not forgotten, since in their church porch, there is a description of Bawburgh, England, and a photograph of our - very different flint - Church. See Church Page.