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St. Beuno shrine and well, Clynnog Fawr, Wales
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St. Beuno shrine and well, Clynnog Fawr, Wales

Clynnog Fawr, Gwynedd, United Kingdom

In Clynnog Fawr, on the pilgrim road to Bardsey Island, stands one of the great churches of North Wales. St Beuno founded his community here in 616 AD....

St. Winefride’s Well
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St. Winefride’s Well

Holywell, Wales, United Kingdom

In a Welsh hillside, water has flowed from the earth for thirteen centuries. Pilgrims have come to bathe in it since before anyone thought to record their names....

Our Lady of Cardigan, Wales
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Our Lady of Cardigan, Wales

Cardigan, Ceredigion, United Kingdom

In medieval Cardigan, a statue of Mary and the Christ Child was found beside the River Teifi, a burning taper in her hand....

St. Michael's Mount
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St. Michael's Mount

Marazion, Cornwall, United Kingdom

St Michael's Mount rises from Mount's Bay like a vision—a granite island crowned by medieval castle and chapel, connected to shore by a causeway that appears and vanishes...

St. Beuno’s Church and Well, Clynnog Fawr, Wales
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St. Beuno’s Church and Well, Clynnog Fawr, Wales

Clynnog Fawr, Gwynedd, United Kingdom

Nestled in the hills above Clynnog Fawr, St Beuno's Well has drawn the sick and seeking since the seventh century....

St. Cybi’s Church
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St. Cybi’s Church

Holyhead, Anglesey, United Kingdom

On the western edge of Anglesey, St Cybi's Church rises within the walls of a fourth-century Roman fort, a visible testimony to the continuity of sacred purpose across...

Carn Ingli
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Carn Ingli

Newport, Cymru / Wales, United Kingdom

Rising above the ancient town of Newport in Pembrokeshire, Carn Ingli takes its name from the 6th-century saint Brynach, who climbed to this rocky summit to pray and there...

Beverley Minster
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Beverley Minster

Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Rising from the market town of Beverley in East Yorkshire, this Gothic minster has witnessed over 1,300 years of continuous worship since St John of Beverley founded a...

St Non’s Chapel and Well
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St Non’s Chapel and Well

St Davids, Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom

South of St Davids, on a cliff overlooking the sea, stands a roofless chapel. Here, according to tradition, St Non gave birth to David, patron saint of Wales, during a...

St. Mary’s Church, Dolgellau
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St. Mary’s Church, Dolgellau

Dolgellau, Gwynedd, United Kingdom

St Mary's stands at the heart of Dolgellau, unusual among Welsh churches for its Georgian architecture but holding medieval treasures within....

St. Davids and St. Non's, Wales
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St. Davids and St. Non's, Wales

St Davids, Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom

Two pilgrimages to St Davids equaled one to Rome, declared the medieval popes, recognizing what Welsh Christians already knew....

Canterbury Cathedral
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Canterbury Cathedral

Canterbury, England, United Kingdom

Canterbury Cathedral stands at the end of the Pilgrim's Way as the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the site of Thomas Becket's martyrdom in 1170....

St. Mary’s Church, Haddington, Scotland
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St. Mary’s Church, Haddington, Scotland

Haddington, Alba / Scotland, United Kingdom

Known as the Lamp of Lothian, St Mary's has held worship since the twelfth century....

St Brynach’s Church
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St Brynach’s Church

Nevern, Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom

In a quiet Pembrokeshire churchyard, an avenue of ancient yews leads to the finest Celtic cross in Wales....

St David’s Cathedral
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St David’s Cathedral

St Davids, Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom

At the western edge of Wales, in Britain's smallest city, a cathedral rests in a hollow. St David founded his monastery here in the 6th century....

Roman Baths of Bath (Temple of Sulis Minerva)
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Roman Baths of Bath (Temple of Sulis Minerva)

Bath, England, United Kingdom

At Bath, Britain's only natural hot springs bubble up from deep within the earth at 46 degrees Celsius, as they have for millennia....

Fortingall Yew Tree and Church, Perthshire, Scotland
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Fortingall Yew Tree and Church, Perthshire, Scotland

Fortingall, Alba / Scotland, United Kingdom

In a small churchyard at the mouth of Scotland's longest glen stands a yew tree that may have been ancient when the pyramids were young....

Gloucester Cathedral
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Gloucester Cathedral

Gloucester, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

When King Edward II was murdered at Berkeley Castle in 1327, other abbeys refused his body....

Durham Cathedral
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Durham Cathedral

Durham, England, United Kingdom

For 120 years, monks fleeing Vikings carried the body of St. Cuthbert across northern England....

Rosslyn
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Rosslyn

Roslin, Midlothian, United Kingdom

Rosslyn Chapel rises from the Scottish landscape like a vision carved in stone. Every surface of this small fifteenth-century building carries carvings of extraordinary...

St. Fillan’s Cave, Pittenweem, Scotland
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St. Fillan’s Cave, Pittenweem, Scotland

Pittenweem, Alba / Scotland, United Kingdom

Beneath the fishing village of Pittenweem lies a cave where the Irish missionary Fillan once prayed in solitude, his glowing arm said to illuminate the scriptures in...

St John's Church
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St John's Church

Glastonbury, Somerset, United Kingdom

On Glastonbury's High Street stands a church where prayers have risen for eight centuries. St....

Wearyall Hill & Holy Thorn
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Wearyall Hill & Holy Thorn

Glastonbury, Somerset, United Kingdom

An open hilltop rises above Glastonbury, marking where—according to legend—Joseph of Arimathea first set foot in Britain....

Bride's Mound
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Bride's Mound

Glastonbury, Somerset, United Kingdom

Behind an industrial estate on Glastonbury's western edge, a small mound rises from a field. Few visitors find it....

St Margaret's Chapel
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St Margaret's Chapel

Glastonbury, Somerset, United Kingdom

Behind a passageway on Magdalene Street, a small chapel and garden offer what Glastonbury's busier sites cannot: genuine quiet....

Glastonbury Abbey
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Glastonbury Abbey

Glastonbury, Somerset, United Kingdom

Glastonbury Abbey was once the second richest monastery in England, claiming to be the oldest Christian foundation in Britain....

Sherborne Abbey
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Sherborne Abbey

Sherborne, England, United Kingdom

Sherborne Abbey has witnessed Christian worship since 705 CE, when St Aldhelm established his cathedral in the heart of Wessex....

Salisbury Cathedral
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Salisbury Cathedral

Salisbury, England, United Kingdom

Salisbury Cathedral lifts Britain's tallest spire 404 feet toward heaven, a medieval achievement that still commands the Wiltshire landscape....

Worcester Cathedral
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Worcester Cathedral

Worcester, England, United Kingdom

Rising above the River Severn, Worcester Cathedral has held continuous Christian worship since 680 AD. Two canonized saints once drew pilgrims here to rival Canterbury....

Lindisfarne
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Lindisfarne

Holy Island, England, United Kingdom

A tidal island off the Northumberland coast, Lindisfarne has drawn pilgrims for nearly fourteen centuries....

Wells Cathedral
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Wells Cathedral

Wells, England, United Kingdom

Wells Cathedral lifts its scissor arches above springs that were sacred before Christianity reached Britain....

Struell Wells, Downpatrick, Northern Ireland
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Struell Wells, Downpatrick, Northern Ireland

Downpatrick, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Hidden in a secluded valley near Downpatrick, Struell Wells has drawn seekers for over a millennium....

Our Lady of Caversham
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Our Lady of Caversham

Reading, England, United Kingdom

For over 500 years, pilgrims traveled along the Thames to pray before Our Lady of Caversham, England's second most important Marian shrine after Walsingham....

St. Andrew’s Church, Bishopstone, England
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St. Andrew’s Church, Bishopstone, England

Seaford, England, United Kingdom

Rising from the Sussex Downs where Christians have worshipped since the seventh or eighth century, St Andrew's Church preserves some of England's most remarkable...

Church of St. Mary’s
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Church of St. Mary’s

Cotswold District, England, United Kingdom

In a quiet Cotswold valley, a medieval church carries the mark of the Knights Templar....

St. Albans Cathedral, St Albans, United Kingdom
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St. Albans Cathedral, St Albans, United Kingdom

St Albans, England, United Kingdom

St Albans Cathedral stands where Alban, Britain's first recorded Christian martyr, was executed around the third or fourth century....

St. Edmundsbury Cathedral
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St. Edmundsbury Cathedral

West Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

St Edmundsbury Cathedral rises beside the ruins of one of medieval England's mightiest abbeys, on ground that held the shrine of St Edmund, the nation's first patron saint....

Ely Cathedral
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Ely Cathedral

Ely, England, United Kingdom

Rising from the flat fenlands of East Anglia like a ship on a calm sea, Ely Cathedral has anchored worship on this site since the 7th century....

Our Lady and St. Annes Church
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Our Lady and St. Annes Church

Reading, England, United Kingdom

In 1896, Bishop Edward Ilsley established a Catholic parish in Caversham with 13 people at its first Mass....

St. Withburga’s Well
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St. Withburga’s Well

Breckland District, England, United Kingdom

In the churchyard of St Nicholas Church in East Dereham, a spring has flowed for over a thousand years from the empty tomb of an Anglo-Saxon abbess....

Church of St Frideswide, Oxford, England
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Church of St Frideswide, Oxford, England

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

In the Latin Chapel of Christ Church Cathedral, fragments of stone reassembled after 400 years form the reconstructed shrine of St Frideswide, the woman who founded...

Winchester Cathedral
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Winchester Cathedral

Winchester, England, United Kingdom

At 558 feet, Winchester Cathedral stretches further than any medieval church in the world....

Chapel of Our Lady of the Crag, Knaresborough, England
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Chapel of Our Lady of the Crag, Knaresborough, England

Knaresborough, England, United Kingdom

Hewn from sandstone cliffs above the River Nidd in 1408, the Chapel of Our Lady of the Crag stands as one of Britain's oldest wayside shrines....

Tewkesbury Abbey
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Tewkesbury Abbey

Tewkesbury, England, United Kingdom

Rising above the confluence of the Severn and Avon rivers, Tewkesbury Abbey has held continuous Christian worship since the 7th century....

Church of St. Mary and St. Edwin, Evesham, England
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Church of St. Mary and St. Edwin, Evesham, England

Wychavon, England, United Kingdom

In the center of Evesham, a Gothic Revival church carries forward a devotion that Henry VIII tried to end....

Our Lady of Walsingham
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Our Lady of Walsingham

North Norfolk, England, United Kingdom

Walsingham, a small Norfolk village, has been England's principal Marian pilgrimage site since 1061, when the noblewoman Richeldis de Faverches was said to have been led...

Cranfield Church, Antrim, Northern Ireland
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Cranfield Church, Antrim, Northern Ireland

Antrim and Newtownabbey District, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

On the northern shore of Lough Neagh, Ireland's largest lake, the ruins of Cranfield Church mark the traditional burial place of St Olcan, a disciple of St Patrick....

Exeter Cathedral
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Exeter Cathedral

Exeter, England, United Kingdom

Rising from foundations that have witnessed Roman soldiers, Saxon monks, and Norman bishops, Exeter Cathedral holds the longest uninterrupted medieval vaulted ceiling in...

Dunadd sacred hill, Lochgilphead, Scotland
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Dunadd sacred hill, Lochgilphead, Scotland

Bridgend, Scotland, United Kingdom

A rocky crag rises from the ancient Great Moss at the mouth of Kilmartin Glen. On its summit, a footprint carved into living rock marks the place where the Gaelic kings of...

St. Mary Church, Temple Guitling
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St. Mary Church, Temple Guitling

Cotswold District, England, United Kingdom

Founded around 1170 by the Knights Templar, St. Mary's Church stands at the edge of Temple Guiting, overlooking the Windrush Valley....

St Nonna’s Church, Altarnun
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St Nonna’s Church, Altarnun

Altarnun, England, United Kingdom

Rising from the edge of Bodmin Moor, St Nonna's Church has anchored nearly fifteen centuries of Christian worship on the site where a Welsh saint established her altar....

St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, England
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St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, England

City of London, England, United Kingdom

St. Paul's Cathedral has occupied Ludgate Hill for over 1,400 years, through fire and war, reformation and rebuilding....

St Peter's Church, Ovington
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St Peter's Church, Ovington

Ovington, Ovington, Hampshire, United Kingdom

St Peter's Church stands in the Itchen Valley village of Ovington as a functioning parish church and waymark on the ancient Pilgrim's Way from Winchester to Canterbury....

Iona Abbey
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Iona Abbey

Isle of Iona, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom

Iona Abbey stands on a small Hebridean island where St Columba founded a monastery in AD 563....

Barpa Langass
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Barpa Langass

Lochmaddy, United Kingdom

On the western flank of Ben Langass, a massive dome of stone rises from the moorland of North Uist....

St Christopher's Chapel, Boughton Lees
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St Christopher's Chapel, Boughton Lees

Boughton Lees, Boughton Lees, Kent, United Kingdom

St Christopher's Chapel stands on the Pilgrims' Way in the Kent village of Boughton Lees — a converted medieval hall house dedicated to the patron saint of travellers....

Christ Church Gate
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Christ Church Gate

Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom

Christ Church Gate is the ceremonial entrance to Canterbury Cathedral precincts and the final threshold of the Pilgrim's Way from Winchester....

Stanydale Temple
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Stanydale Temple

Bixter, United Kingdom

On a treeless hillside in western Shetland, a heel-shaped stone structure stands open to the sky....

Eastbridge Hospital of St Thomas the Martyr
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Eastbridge Hospital of St Thomas the Martyr

Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom

Eastbridge Hospital has stood on Canterbury's High Street since around 1180, built to receive exhausted pilgrims arriving to venerate Thomas Becket....

Wrotham
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Wrotham

Wrotham, Kent, United Kingdom

St George's Church stands on a downland slope in Wrotham, its Norman core and soaring 15th-century tower marking a waypoint on the Pilgrims' Way....

Callanish Standing Stone Circle
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Callanish Standing Stone Circle

Callanish, United Kingdom

On the Atlantic edge of Lewis, thirteen standing stones form a circle older than the main phase of Stonehenge....

Rochester Cathedral
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Rochester Cathedral

Rochester, Rochester, Kent, United Kingdom

Rochester Cathedral has stood at the Medway crossing since AD 604, making it one of the oldest sites of continuous Christian worship in England....

St Bartholomew's Church, Winchester
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St Bartholomew's Church, Winchester

Winchester, Winchester, Hampshire, United Kingdom

St Bartholomew's is the sole surviving structure of Hyde Abbey, the Benedictine monastery where King Alfred the Great was buried in 1110....

The Friars, Aylesford Priory
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The Friars, Aylesford Priory

Aylesford, Aylesford, Kent, United Kingdom

Founded in 1242 on the banks of the Medway, Aylesford Priory is the cradle of the English Carmelite Order and home to the relic of St Simon Stock....

St Mary's Church, Chilham
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St Mary's Church, Chilham

Chilham, Chilham, Kent, United Kingdom

St Mary's Church stands at the heart of Chilham village, a medieval waypoint on the Pilgrim's Way just 11.5 kilometres from Canterbury Cathedral....

The Bishop's Palace, Halling
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The Bishop's Palace, Halling

Halling, Halling, Kent, United Kingdom

The Bishop's Palace at Halling is a fragmentary medieval ruin — a single standing wall of a Great Hall once at the heart of episcopal Kent — set in the churchyard of an...

Winchester Buttercross
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Winchester Buttercross

Winchester, Winchester, Hampshire, United Kingdom

The Buttercross is a 15th-century devotional cross at the heart of Winchester High Street, bearing carved figures of saints including St Swithun....

St Swithun's Church
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St Swithun's Church

Headbourne Worthy, Martyr Worthy/near Winchester, Hampshire, United Kingdom

St Swithun's Church at Headbourne Worthy stands just outside Winchester on the ancient Pilgrim's Way, a small Saxon church built in deliberate dedication to the city's...

St Peter & St Paul's Church, Charing
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St Peter & St Paul's Church, Charing

Charing, Charing, Kent, United Kingdom

St Peter & St Paul's Church in Charing has served as the final major overnight halt on the Pilgrim's Way since the medieval period....

Lesnes Abbey
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Lesnes Abbey

London, Abbey Wood, Greater London, United Kingdom

Lesnes Abbey stands in southeast London as a ruin built from guilt. Founded in 1178 by Richard de Luci — the man whose loyalty to Henry II helped trigger the murder of...

St Mary the Virgin Church, Thurnham
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St Mary the Virgin Church, Thurnham

Thurnham, Thurnham, Kent, United Kingdom

Set in a quiet Kentish lane, St Mary the Virgin is a Norman flint church whose churchyard the Pilgrim's Way literally passes through....

St Mary's Church, Bentley
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St Mary's Church, Bentley

Bentley, Bentley, Hampshire, United Kingdom

St Mary's Church in Bentley stands on the ancient east-west trackway that became the Pilgrim's Way from Winchester to Canterbury....

St Martha-on-the-Hill
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St Martha-on-the-Hill

Guildford, Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom

St Martha-on-the-Hill is an active Church of England parish church perched 573 feet above the Surrey countryside, reachable only on foot....

St Edith's Well, Kemsing
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St Edith's Well, Kemsing

Kemsing, Kemsing, Kent, United Kingdom

At a quiet junction in Kemsing village stands a small, grilled well traditionally identified as the birthplace of Saint Edith of Wilton, born here around 961....

St Nicholas Church, Thanington
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St Nicholas Church, Thanington

Thanington, Thanington, Kent, United Kingdom

A Norman flint church on the southwest fringe of Canterbury, St Nicholas Thanington has stood beside the pilgrim road for nearly nine hundred years....

St George the Martyr Church, Borough
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St George the Martyr Church, Borough

London, Southwark, Greater London, United Kingdom

Standing at the exact junction where medieval London gave way to the road to Canterbury, St George the Martyr has served as a gateway church for nine centuries....

St Catherine's Hill and Chapel
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St Catherine's Hill and Chapel

Guildford, Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom

St Catherine's Hill rises from the Surrey sandstone above Guildford, its roofless 14th-century chapel marking the Pilgrim's Way south of the River Wey....

St Michael & All Angels Church, Harbledown
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St Michael & All Angels Church, Harbledown

Harbledown, Harbledown, Kent, United Kingdom

Standing on the last ridge before Canterbury, St Michael & All Angels has marked the threshold of the great pilgrimage since Norman times....

St Dunstan's Church, Canterbury
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St Dunstan's Church, Canterbury

Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom

St Dunstan's stands just outside Canterbury's medieval West Gate — the last church a pilgrim passed before entering the city....

St Botolph's Church, Chevening
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St Botolph's Church, Chevening

Chevening, Chevening, Kent, United Kingdom

St Botolph's stands on the North Downs ridge where the Pilgrim's Way has wound since before Christianity....

St Nicholas Church, Bishop's Sutton
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St Nicholas Church, Bishop's Sutton

Bishop's Sutton, Bishop's Sutton, Hampshire, United Kingdom

St Nicholas Church in Bishop's Sutton is a Grade I listed Norman church built c.1150 by Henry de Blois, Bishop of Winchester....

St John's Church
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St John's Church

Itchen Abbas, Itchen Abbas/near Winchester, Hampshire, United Kingdom

St John the Baptist in Itchen Abbas has stood beside the River Itchen since the Norman period, its twelfth-century chancel arch still intact within a Victorian shell....

Boxley Abbey
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Boxley Abbey

Boxley, Boxley, Kent, United Kingdom

Boxley Abbey was a Cistercian house on the Pilgrim's Way that housed the Rood of Grace, a life-size articulated crucifix believed by medieval pilgrims to move its eyes and...

St Mary's Church
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St Mary's Church

Easton, Easton/near Winchester, Hampshire, United Kingdom

St Mary's Church in Easton is a Grade I listed Norman parish church built around 1200, set in the chalk-stream valley of the Itchen two and three-quarter miles from...

St Martin's Church, Detling
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St Martin's Church, Detling

Detling, Detling, Kent, United Kingdom

St Martin's Church stands at the heart of Detling village on the North Downs of Kent, directly on the ancient trackway that medieval pilgrims walked toward Canterbury....

Pobull Fhinn
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Pobull Fhinn

Lochmaddy, United Kingdom

On the southern slope of Ben Langass, overlooking Loch Langass and the mountain Eaval, an oval of standing stones occupies a platform that Bronze Age hands carved from the...

Lund Standing Stone
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Lund Standing Stone

Baltasound, United Kingdom

On the low moorland of southwest Unst, the most northerly inhabited island in the British Isles, a massive gneiss boulder stands roughly 3.8 metres tall with a girth...

Underhoull Longhouse
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Underhoull Longhouse

Baltasound, United Kingdom

On a windswept slope above Lunda Wick on the island of Unst, the ruins of an Iron Age broch and three Norse longhouses occupy the same ground....

St John the Baptist Church, Puttenham
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St John the Baptist Church, Puttenham

Puttenham, Puttenham, Surrey, United Kingdom

St John the Baptist Church in Puttenham has stood beside the medieval Pilgrim's Way since the twelfth century....

St John the Baptist Church, Harrietsham
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St John the Baptist Church, Harrietsham

Harrietsham, Harrietsham, Kent, United Kingdom

St John the Baptist Church has stood at the edge of the Pilgrim's Way corridor in the Kent North Downs since at least the Norman Conquest....

Broch of Clickimin
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Broch of Clickimin

Lerwick, United Kingdom

On a small islet in Clickimin Loch, within walking distance of Lerwick, stands a broch complex spanning nearly 2,000 years of continuous habitation....

Hill of the Angels
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Hill of the Angels

Iona, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom

A smooth grass-covered knoll rises from the flat central plain of Iona, the island Columba chose for his monastery in 563....

Brough of Deerness Chapel
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Brough of Deerness Chapel

Deerness, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom

On the eastern tip of Orkney's Mainland, a grass-topped promontory rises from the North Sea, connected to the land by a narrow neck of eroded rock....

Eshaness Broch
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Eshaness Broch

Hillswick, United Kingdom

On a promontory in the Loch of Houlland, reached by stone causeways across the water, the Broch of Houlland rises to four metres against the sky of northwest Shetland....

New Alresford
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New Alresford

New Alresford, Hampshire, near Winchester, United Kingdom

New Alresford is a planned medieval market town founded around 1200 by the Bishops of Winchester, its Grade II*-listed Soke Bridge still carrying the old Winchester-London...

Lenham Cross
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Lenham Cross

Lenham, Lenham, Kent, United Kingdom

Lenham Cross is a 200-foot Latin cross carved in compacted chalk on the south-facing scarp of the North Downs....

St Mary's and All Saints Church, Boxley
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St Mary's and All Saints Church, Boxley

Boxley, Boxley, Kent, United Kingdom

St Mary's and All Saints stands at the foot of the North Downs in Boxley village, a few hundred metres from the ancient Pilgrim's Way....

Brough of Birsay
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Brough of Birsay

Birsay, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom

The Brough of Birsay rises from the sea off the northwest coast of Orkney, reachable only when the tide withdraws....

St Lawrence the Martyr Church, Godmersham
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St Lawrence the Martyr Church, Godmersham

Godmersham, Godmersham, Kent, United Kingdom

St Lawrence the Martyr Church stands in the Stour Valley on the ancient Pilgrim's Way between Winchester and Canterbury....

St Nicholas Church, Chawton
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St Nicholas Church, Chawton

Chawton, Chawton, Hampshire, United Kingdom

St Nicholas Church, Chawton has served this Hampshire village since at least 1270, rebuilt in Victorian Gothic after a fire but retaining its medieval chancel....

Winchester Cathedral
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Winchester Cathedral

Winchester, Winchester, Hampshire, United Kingdom

Winchester Cathedral has stood at the spiritual heart of England for over 1,300 years....

St Bartholomew's Church, Otford
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St Bartholomew's Church, Otford

Otford, Otford, Kent, United Kingdom

St Bartholomew's stands at the heart of Otford village, where the Winchester and London arms of the Pilgrim's Way converge....

Church of St Martha-on-the-Hill
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Church of St Martha-on-the-Hill

Chilworth, St Martha, Surrey, United Kingdom

St Martha-on-the-Hill is an active Anglican church at the summit of a 574-foot Surrey hilltop, standing where pilgrims have paused since the Norman era. Foot access only....

St Augustine's Abbey
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St Augustine's Abbey

Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom

Founded in 598 CE by Augustine of Canterbury on land granted by the Kentish king, this ruined Benedictine abbey is the birthplace of organised Christianity in Anglo-Saxon...

Southwark Cathedral
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Southwark Cathedral

London, Southwark, Greater London, United Kingdom

Southwark Cathedral stands at London's oldest river crossing as the official starting point of the Becket Way — the 90-mile pilgrimage to Canterbury Thomas Becket himself...

St Mary's Church, Patrixbourne
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St Mary's Church, Patrixbourne

Patrixbourne, Patrixbourne, Kent, United Kingdom

Standing four miles southeast of Canterbury, St Mary's Patrixbourne is one of the finest Norman parish churches in southeast England....

St Peter's Church, Ropley
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St Peter's Church, Ropley

Ropley, Ropley, Hampshire, United Kingdom

St Peter's Church stands on a hilltop mound above Ropley village, its Norman origins visible beneath a Victorian skin and a hard-won modern restoration....

St Barnabas Church, Ranmore
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St Barnabas Church, Ranmore

Ranmore Common, Ranmore Common, Surrey, United Kingdom

St Barnabas Church stands at 700 feet on Ranmore Common, its Victorian spire rising above Surrey woodland on the North Downs ridge followed by medieval pilgrims to...

Macleod's Stone
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Macleod's Stone

Tarbert, United Kingdom

On a small hillock above Traigh Iar beach on the west coast of Harris, a single standing stone has held its ground for approximately five thousand years....

Reineval Chambered Cairn
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Reineval Chambered Cairn

Lochboisdale, United Kingdom

On the northern slope of Beinn Reineabhal, overlooking the valley that descends to Mingarry and the Atlantic beyond, a massive stone mound rises from the moorland....

St Margaret's Churchyard, Darenth
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St Margaret's Churchyard, Darenth

Darenth, Darenth, Kent, United Kingdom

One of Kent's oldest standing churches, St Margaret's rises quietly above the River Darent on a hillside stitched together from Saxon handiwork and Roman tiles....

St Peter & St Paul's Church, Aylesford
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St Peter & St Paul's Church, Aylesford

Aylesford, Aylesford, Kent, United Kingdom

Standing on a promontory above the River Medway at Aylesford, St Peter and St Paul's has guided travellers on the Pilgrims' Way for centuries....

Callanish Stone Circle III
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Callanish Stone Circle III

Callanish, United Kingdom

On a low ridge southeast of the main Callanish Stones, a double concentric ring of Lewisian gneiss has stood for nearly five thousand years....

All Saints' Church, Boughton Aluph
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All Saints' Church, Boughton Aluph

Boughton Aluph, Boughton Aluph, Kent, United Kingdom

All Saints' Church stands directly on the Pilgrim's Way in the Kent village of Boughton Aluph, where it has sheltered travellers bound for Canterbury since the 12th...

Farnham Castle
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Farnham Castle

Farnham, Farnham, Surrey, United Kingdom

Farnham grew up around a castle built in 1138 by Henry of Blois, Bishop of Winchester, and the parish church of St Andrew, whose worship continues unbroken from at least...

Ronas Hill Chambered Cairn
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Ronas Hill Chambered Cairn

North Roe, United Kingdom

On the summit of Shetland's highest hill, Neolithic builders placed a chambered cairn for their dead....

Chilham
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Chilham

Chilham, Kent, United Kingdom

St Mary's, Chilham, is an active Church of England parish church on the Pilgrims' Way, its congregation traditionally dated to the 7th century and documented in the...

Christ Church, Shooters Hill
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Christ Church, Shooters Hill

London, Shooters Hill, Greater London, United Kingdom

Perched near the summit of the highest point in the London Borough of Greenwich, Christ Church stands on the ancient Watling Street — the Roman road that carried medieval...

Callanish Stone Circle 8
Christianity

Callanish Stone Circle 8

Callanish, United Kingdom

On the southern coast of Great Bernera, three standing stones and one fallen companion form a semicircle at the edge of a sheer cliff above Loch Roag....

Dun Carloway Broch
Christianity

Dun Carloway Broch

Carloway, United Kingdom

On a rocky knoll above East Loch Roag, the walls of Dun Carloway Broch still rise nine metres without mortar....

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