Leigh Hatts

The Pilgrims' Way (eBook, ePUB)

To Canterbury from Winchester and London

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A guidebook to walking the Pilgrims' Way, a 230 km (138 mile) historic pilgrimage route to Canterbury Cathedral in Kent, home of the shrine of the martyred archbishop, St Thomas Becket. With relatively easy walking on ancient pathways, it can be comfortably completed in under a fortnight.

The route is presented in 15 stages ranging between 7 and 22 kms (5-14 miles) and is described from both Winchester in Hampshire (138 miles) and London's Southwark Cathedral (90 miles), with an optional link to Rochester.

• 1:50,000 OS mapping for each stage
• Detailed information on accommodation, public transport, and refreshments for each stage
• Information on the historical background of the pilgrimage, historical figures, and local points of interest
• GPX files available to download
• Facilities table to help you plan your itinerary

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cicerone Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783624614
• Artikelnr.: 48199894

Autorenporträt

Leigh Hatts has lived in both Hampshire and Southwark where the two historic Canterbury routes begin. He first became familiar with sections of the ancient Pilgrims' Way in the Home Counties, and the Darenth Valley on the London route, whilst responsible for the London Transport Country Walks book series. His Thames Walk Feasibility Study led to the 180-mile Thames Path national trail. He is author of London's 100 Best Churches and Cicerone's Thames Path and Lea Valley Walk guides. He worked as a reporter with the walkers magazine TGO and as arts correspondent of the Catholic Herald.