Britain's Pilgrim Places

Nick Mayhew-Smith is a researcher and travel writer. He has spent 14 summers visiting all corners of Britain to research the country's sacred landscapes, producing three books, a BBC television series called Pagans & Pilgrims and a PhD thesis along the way. His best-selling guide Britain's Holiest Places (2011) has helped to inform this book, while his PhD thesis on Celticnature spirituality was shaped into The Naked Hermit (2019). He is an honorary research fellow at Roehampton University, where he works with the Susanna Wesley Foundation. Guy Hayward co-founded the British PilgrimageTrust in 2014, and leads guided pilgrimages around Britain. He has been interviewed about modern pilgrimage for the BBC Two TV series Pilgrimage and Channel 4's Britain's AncientTracks, contributes to BBC Radio 4, and has been featured in Porter, Tatler, Conde Nast Traveller, The Times, The Guardian and The Telegraph. He has created pilgrim routes for English Heritage and, with Nick Mayhew-Smith, for the Association of English Cathedrals. Guy completed a PhD at Cambridge on how singing forms community, founded choralevensong.organd is half of musical comedy double act Bounder & Cad. guyhayward.comMarcus Green, our cathedrals photographer, is a part time management consultant working in the voluntary sector with an expertise in charity leadership. He is also CEO of Action on Pre-eclampsia and a non-executive director.During 2019 he visited and photographed over 100 cathedrals including every Anglican and Catholic cathedral in England and Wales. He lives in Gloucestershire with his family.Between them the members of our creative team have visited every UK site in this book.

• EnglandSouth East 10Pilgrim routes 12Berkshire 17Buckinghamshire 20Hampshire/Isle of Wight 25Jersey/Channel Islands 36Kent 38London 61Oxfordshire 80Surrey 90Sussex, East 96Sussex, West 97East Anglia 108Pilgrim routes 110Bedfordshire 114Cambridgeshire 116Essex 131Hertfordshire 139Norfolk 142Suffolk 158South West 166Pilgrim routes 168Bristol 173Cornwall 176Devon 222Dorset 236Gloucestershire 246Somerset 258Wiltshire 274Midlands 280Pilgrim routes 282Derbyshire 285Herefordshire 296Leicestershire 303Lincolnshire 308Northamptonshire 318Nottinghamshire 322Rutland 325Shropshire 326Staffordshire 332Warwickshire 340West Midlands 346Worcestershire 352Northern England 358Pilgrim routes 360Cheshire 370Cumbria 371Durham, County 380Lancashire 388Manchester, Greater 394Merseyside 395Northumberland 398Tyne and Wear 411Yorkshire, East 417Yorkshire, North 421Yorkshire, South and West 437Wales and IoMPilgrim routes 444Anglesey 451Caerphilly 456Cardiff 457Carmarthenshire 460Ceredigion 462Conwy 464Denbighshire 467Flintshire 473Gwynedd 475Isle of Man 486Monmouthshire 487Newport 490Pembrokeshire 493Powys 504Swansea 510Vale of Glamorgan 512Wrexham 515ScotlandPilgrim routes 518Aberdeenshire 526Angus 527Argyll & Bute 529Ayrshire 539Dumfries & Galloway 541East Lothian 546Edinburgh 548Fife 553Glasgow 564Highlands 567Moray 574Orkney 576Perth & Kinross 581Scottish Borders 584Stirling 589West Lothian 591Appendix:Timeline of church history 592Guide to church layout 593Other faiths 594Further reading 600Index 601

A beautiful book... it reminded me that a pilgrim is not a special kind of person but all of us ar epotentially special kinds of pilgrims. I have not seen or read anything like this before.