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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This Sunday, walk with us from the salt marshes at Wells-next-the-Sea to the shrine at Walsingham, guided by BPT’s Guy Hayward. A day pilgrimage inland from the North Norfolk coast to one of medieval England’s great pilgrimage destinations. Details and booking on our website.

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Today is the feast of St Osyth. Legend says this Anglo-Saxon abbess was beheaded on the Essex coast and carried her head to the church door. A flint gatehouse still marks the abbey built in her honour, and the village bears her name. Have you been? #bringyourownbeliefs

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Translate comes from the Latin for carried across. Today, St Jerome’s Day, we remember a pilgrim who settled in Bethlehem to carry the Bible into Latin. Pilgrimage crosses a barrier too, and neither crossing is ever complete. So we walk the same paths again. Where do you return to?

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today is Michaelmas. Across England, 816 churches are dedicated to St Michael, many on hilltops, tors and headlands, as guardians over the land. His spear can be read as a ray of light, the dragon as wild nature, or our own shadow. Is there a St Michael’s church on a hill near you?

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today we celebrate Our Lady of Walsingham. In 1061, Mary showed Richeldis her house in Nazareth in a vision and asked her to build a copy in Norfolk. Pilgrims came for almost 500 years. On Sunday 11 October, Guy Hayward leads a day pilgrimage there from Wells-next-the-Sea. tinyurl.com/4kktbcz4

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Today is the feast of St Edith of Wilton. King Edgar's daughter, offered the throne of England, she turned it down to stay a nun. She wore gold over a hair shirt, and told a bishop God looks at the heart, not the clothes. She died at about twenty-three. Have you walked the St Edith of Wilton Way?

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Meet Meg Avon, Britain's first River Wife. On Sat 3 October she leads a pilgrimage up the Malago, a hidden tributary of the Avon, from the streets of Bristol to a sacred spring beneath Dundry Hill. Have you ever followed a river to its source? tinyurl.com/y6mrwf6u

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A low mound on the Ridgeway, named for Wayland the smith-god: leave a horse and a silver coin overnight, the tale says, and find it shod by dawn. But it was never a forge. It is a tomb, five thousand years old. Walk the old road on and you reach the White Horse. Ever left a coin in the stones?

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Today is the feast of the Nativity of Mary, the day the old calendar called Latter Marymass. A feast of a birth that was also a feast of seed going back into the ground. For centuries Mary was who Britain walked to, from Walsingham to Penrhys, until the Reformation pulled it down.

A Renaissance panel painting of the Virgin Mary in a red dress and dark cloak, holding the infant Christ to her breast. The child reaches up toward her with both hands. A landscape with trees and a distant building shows through a window behind them.

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

360 years ago today, the Great Fire took old St Paul's, a cathedral pilgrims had walked to for centuries. Clearing the rubble to rebuild, Wren was handed a stone from an old grave. One word was left on it. Resurgam. I shall rise again. #bringyourownbeliefs #GreatFireOfLondon #StPauls

Painting: The Great Fire of London (ca. 1797), Philip James de Loutherbourg.

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Today is St Giles's Day. A hermit who left the world for the forest, sheltered by a deer, lamed by a king's stray arrow. He became the saint of the poor and the outcast, which is why his churches so often stand at the edge of town. Where is your nearest St Giles? #bringyourownbeliefs

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

You are not alone in your grief. A gentle 3-day bereavement pilgrimage through the Yorkshire Dales, 4-6 miles a day, for anyone living with loss. We close with a procession along the River Wharfe. 📆 25–27 Sept 2026 📍 Chapel Gate, Malham 🥾 4–6 miles/day Join: tinyurl.com/47t776au

Image of Bolton Abbey. This gentle three-day journey through the Yorkshire Dales is designed for those who would welcome shorter distances, slower days and the companionship of others who understand.

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Walk into Lydford Gorge, where the River Lyd cuts the deepest gorge in the south west. At Brent Tor, St Michael stands high as light; here the story turns to water. The first stage of our Archangel's Way on Dartmoor. www.britishpilgrimage.org/portfolio/ar... #BringYourOwnBeliefs

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Grief changes the landscape of our lives. Our 3-day Bereavement Pilgrimage for Parents in the Yorkshire Dales - walk with others who know the loss of a child. Your grief is welcome. 📆 4th – 6th Sept 2026 📍 Kettlewell Car Park 🥾 8 – 10m/day Book: tinyurl.com/3cs2teap #Bereavement #Pilgrimage

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

And this year, you can walk it for real. Our guided Walsingham Day Pilgrimage - From Salt Marsh to Shrine, led by Guy Hayward, retraces the old route on foot, from the Stiffkey marshes to the shrine itself. Sunday 11 October, booking via the link in bio.

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Then the Reformation came, and the shrine was pulled down. But the road never quite forgot the way. Today Walsingham is walked again, by the devout, the curious, the grieving, the searching. You don't need to arrive with the right words, or the right beliefs. You only need to set out.

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Word spread. For the next five hundred years, kings and paupers and pilgrims of every kind walked the muddy miles to reach it, until it became one of the greatest pilgrimage places in all of medieval Europe.

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Richeldis saw a vision of the Virgin Mary, who showed her the home she had shared with Joseph and Jesus in faraway Nazareth, and asked her to build its likeness here, in the fields of Norfolk.

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Today is the Feast of the Assumption, and it's the reason a Norfolk village became known as England's Nazareth. The story starts in 1061, with a woman called Richeldis de Faverches.

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Kings feared it. Monks learned to predict it. Tonight, we just look up. Britain's deepest eclipse in ten years: begins ~6pm, peaks ~7pm, low in the west. Never look without certified eclipse glasses. Wherever you are, let it be a small pilgrimage.

A sun with a human face and long rays, illustrated in a grainy pink-and-blue riso style. Overlaid white text reads: "Long before the chronicles. Britain watched the sun before it could write. Roman writers said the druids studied the stars and their motions; older Britons raised monuments that still face the turning sun."

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

St Swithin was Patron Saint of Winchester Cathedral, so perhaps consider one of many routes to, from and around this place. Search for Winchester on our route map at www.britishpilgrimage.org

map of pilgrimage routes around Winchester Cathedral

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Today, July 15th, is St. Swithin's Day. In popular belief, if it rains on St. Swithin’s Day, it will rain for 40 days, but if it is fair, 40 days of fair weather will follow. So, perhaps this spell of unusual weather will continue?

Winchester Cathedral - St Swithin was the patron saint of this splendid cathedral.

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Sat 25 Jul — Springs & Stones of the Malvern Hills (7.5 miles). Deep time through the 650-million-year-old spine of the Malverns, with a geologist and a historian-naturalist.

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Sat 18 Jul — Walk with Meg Avon, the River-Wife (5 miles). Follow the mysterious waters of the Malago with the UK's first River Wife.

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Three guided pilgrimages left this July — and tickets are going fast. Full details + booking here: britishpilgrimage.org/events Sun 5 Jul — Frome Market Day Pilgrimage (4 miles). A many-layered walk through storied landscape with BPT's Guy Hayward, on Frome's bustling market day.

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Join Meg Avon, the UK's first River Wife, for a unique one-day pilgrimage following the mysterious waters of the Malago, a tributary of the Avon that flows from a sacred spring. A pilgrimage of flowing water and deep listening. Saturday, July 18th. Join us www.britishpilgrimage.org/events/walk-...

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

A pilgrimage through deep time. From Gullet Quarry to the magnificent Malvern Priory, our journey traces 650 million years of history, led by geologist Gary White and historian-naturalist Dawn Champion. Reconnect with the land and yourself. Join us on 25th July 2026. Britishpilgrimage.org/events.

Springs and Stones of the Malvern Hills day geological pilgrimage

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

We finish at the ancient church of St Andrew’s Church, Mells, with its Lutyens war memorial and Burne-Jones tapestry – a place of deep time and quiet gravity. Along the way, there will be moments of silence, story, song, reflection, blending landscape, history, spirituality, and community.

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

We'll climb St Catherine’s Hill to join the East Mendip Way. From here, the landscape opens into rolling countryside and wooded valleys as we make our way towards Great Elm, pausing at its sweet village church, and then following the gentle course of the Mells Stream.

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Join Guy the Guide (Guy Hayward) for a 4-mile pilgrimage through beautiful landscapes around Frome in Somerset, enriched by our unique mix of songs and stories. Discuss pilgrimage literature with Luke Sherlock of Sherlock & Pages before heading out. Book: www.britishpilgrimage.org/events/frome...

Frome to Mells Market Day Pilgrimage - view back to Mells

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Valentine’s Day isn’t just about flowers and chocolates—it has a fascinating history stretching back to Roman festivals. Christianized version of Cupid? Derivation of Roman festival of Lupercalia? Where are his relics in the UK? Find out more: www.britishpilgrimage.org/stories/the-...

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The Curious History of Valentine’s Day: From Ancient Rituals to Victorian Elegance

Andrea Camassei, Lupecales, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

This pilgrimage centres around healing water and the rich overlay of traditions and stories. There will be lots of dialogue between folklore and religion – think Arthur, Guinevere & Morgan Le Fay, the man who buried Jesus, the Holy Grail, the goddesses of Ceridwen, Bride & Brigid. And a maypole!

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Glastonbury is one of Britain's oldest and greatest pilgrimage destinations. And going on May Day will be an experience like no other! Join Guy Hayward this May Day on a beautiful five-mile route around Glastonbury. To book: www.britishpilgrimage.org/.../glastonb....

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

We just sat down to shape our guided pilgrimage calendar for 2026 — and there are some truly wonderful opportunities to switch off from the hurly burly of life and find out what it means to join a #bringyourownbeliefs pilgrimage. www.britishpilgrimage.org/events for full lineup!

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

A short detour from the Whithorn Way will take you to Threave Garden, which is one of many places in Scotland that take part in the Scottish Snowdrop Festival, which will take place this year from Wednesday, 11 February until Sunday, 15 February, 2026. www.britishpilgrimage.org/portfolio/wh...

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Whithorn Way - Glasgow to Whithorn - British Pilgrimage Trust

Walk the Whithorn Way, Scotland’s ancient pilgrimage route to Whithorn Priory, exploring sacred sites, historic landmarks, and stunning landscapes.

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

St Edwards Way leads to Shaftesbury, which hosts a snowdrop festival February 14th – 22nd 2026. www.britishpilgrimage.org/portfolio/st... www.shaftesburysnowdrops.org

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St Edward's Way - British Pilgrimage Trust

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

The Welsh Cistercian Way will take you near Penrhyn Castle, which has an impressive display (and an admission fePermaculture Magazine www.britishpilgrimage.org/portfolio/we...

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Welsh Cistercian Way - British Pilgrimage Trust

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Any of the Ways to Walsingham will bring you to drifts of flowers all around the ruins. www.britishpilgrimage.org/portfolio/pi...

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Pilgrim Ways to Walsingham - British Pilgrimage Trust

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Snowdrops can be found in bloom from January to March. While not native to Britain, they still have folk names such as Fair Maid of February, Mary's Taper, Snow Piercer, Little Sister of the Snows, White Ladies, and even Dingle-Dangle.

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

In folklore, snowdrops are often associated with purity, rebirth, and new beginnings. It was once believed that snowdrops were a symbol of protection, said to ward off evil spirits.

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Snowdrops are one of the first signs of spring. They are a perfect flower to share today on Candlemas, as they are also known as Candlemas Bells. Candlemas was popular in the Middle Ages, celebrated with processional candles dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Read on for pilgrimage ideas for Candlemas!

Candlemas on February 2nd -- snowdrops candlemas bells in the snow.

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

While it may seem like it's been raining every day of January, and that Spring will never come, today it begins! Today we celebrate Imbolc or Óimelc, the Celtic festival marking the return of spring and the beginning of new life. Perhaps light candles tonight to symbolise the growing sunlight.

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

In Britain, see traces of the Templars at Rosslyn Chapel, near Edinburgh, connected to both the Rosslyn Chapel Way and a Pilgrimage in a Day routes. If you've never visited, we can't recommend it more strongly. It's an astounding place. www.britishpilgrimage.org/portfolio/ed...

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Edinburgh Cathedral Pilgrimage in a Day - British Pilgrimage Trust

Discover the Edinburgh Cathedral Pilgrimage, a one-day journey through Scotland’s capital, linking St Mary's Cathedral with the Rosslyn Chapel

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Today is traditionally observed as the founding day of the Knights Templar — a medieval military order of the Catholic Church, established to protect pilgrims travelling to Jerusalem. Their history is complex and often troubling — yet inseparable from the wider story of pilgrimage across Europe.

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Every purchase directly supports the British Pilgrimage Trust, helping us keep Britain’s ancient paths alive and accessible for all. 💚 Walk knowing your kit supports a charity making pilgrimage possible. 👉 Explore the shop: www.britishpilgrimage.org/shop 👉 All proceeds support our work.

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Our Shop - The British Pilgrimage Trust

All proceeds from our shop support The British Pilgrimage Trust, a non profit UK charity. Thank you!

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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

The Pilgrim Passport is here too, ready for your 2026 journeys and stamps, along with our bestselling book Pilgrim Places — reprinted last year — with 600 pages crammed full of paths and places to visit around Britain.

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