Andy Bull is a keen walker, journalist and author, based in London who has written travel pieces for The Times, the Daily Telegraph, The Independent, the Mail on Sunday and The Tablet. When he wanted to go on a pilgrimage that could be completed in a weekend and found no suitable guides were available, he realised he would have to find a route for himself. He found 20, and Pilgrim Pathways is the result.

Andy has also published two travel books on America: Coast to Coast and Strange Angels; guides for mountain bikers to The Lake District and The Ridgeway; and Walking Charles Dickens' Kent. He has written the local history books Secret Margate; Secret Ramsgate; Secret Broadstairs; Secret Twickenham, Whitton, Teddington and the Hamptons; and Secret Richmond. He is now researching a book on the Great North Road.

Introduction 6

How to use this guide 9

Choosing your walk 11

Walk 1 – The Way of St Augustine Ramsgate to Canterbury (19.2 miles/31km) 20

Walk 2 – The Old Way to the Fifth Continent Battle, Rye, and four Romney Marsh churches (27.6 miles/44.5km) 32

Walk 3 – Blake, Jerusalem and St Richard Haslemere to Chichester (25.4 miles/40.9km) 42 Walk 4 – A prehistoric pilgrimage Avebury to Stonehenge (26.9 miles/43.3km) 54

Walk 5 – A Jurassic Coast pilgrimage Abbotsbury, Chideock, Whitchurch Canonicorum and Lyme Regis (22.9 miles/36.9km) 66

Walk 6 – The path to Avalon The pilgrim route to Wells and Glastonbury (22 miles/35.5km) 78

Walk 7 – The Cornish Saints' Way Coast to coast, Padstow to Fowey (27.6 miles/44.4km) 88 Walk 8 – The Path of St David A coastal pilgrimage through a sacred landscape (19.8 miles/31.8km) 100

Walk 9 – A Thames pilgrimage Dorchester to Abingdon, Oxford and Binsey (20.6 miles/33.2km) 110

Walk 10 – London's saints and martyrs From Westminster Abbey to Tyburn (9.9 miles/16km) 120

Walk 11 – St Peter's Way Purleigh to the Chapel of St Peter-on-the-Wall, Essex (16.6 miles/26.7km) 132

Walk 12 – St Edmund's Way Thetford to Bury St Edmunds (18.9 miles/30.4km) 142

Walk 13 – England's Nazareth Castle Acre to Walsingham, Norfolk (21.4 miles/34.4km) 152

Walk 14 – St Milburga's Shropshire Ironbridge, Much Wenlock, Wenlock Edge (14.8 miles/23.8km) 164

Walk 15 – St Paulinus and the Ebor Way Wetherby to York (21.1 miles/33.9km)174

Walk 16 – The English Camino Escomb to Finchale via Durham (20.7 miles/33.3km) 186

Walk 17 – The Welsh Lourdes & Burial Place of Saints From Basingwerk Abbey via Holywell to Gwytherin (33 miles/53.1km) 196

Walk 18 – St Hilda and the Blessed Nicholas Postgate Danby to Whitby (19.3 miles/31.1km) 208

Walk 19 – St Cuthbert, St Oswald and St Aidan Seahouses to Holy Island (Lindisfarne), Northumberland (22.2 miles/35.7km) 218

Walk 20 – St Andrew's Way On the Fife Costal Path from Earlsferry to St Andrews (25.1 miles/40.5km) 228 Index