This route connects departure (Southampton) with Return (Dover) and Burial (London). Southampton is where the British Expeditionary Force left from in 1914. Dover is where the body of the Unknown Soldier was brought back to Britain. And London is where this anonymous soldier, representing all the lost lads, was buried.
During this pilgrimage, we won’t be sleeping in BnBs or hotels. The aim is church sleeping. But if you have somewhere to offer, perhaps with electricity and a tumble dryer, we’d love to hear from you. Contact will (at) britishpilgrimage.org if you have somewhere in mind…
Meanwhile, here are the prospective war memorials along the route. The aim is to record 100 silences, but there are at least 214 along the path!
OCTOBER 13th TO NOVEMBER 11th 2018
Day 1 – Southampton
Warrior the Horse
Hollybrook Memorial
Belgian Patriots
British Universities at Southampton Senate House
Day 2 – Southampton to Netley
Two Horse Chestnuts of Peace
Southampton Cenotaph
Port No 4 memorial
St Mary’s Southampton
SS Mendi at sea
Warsash Cross
Day 3 – Netley to Titchfield
Netley St Edwards gate and column
Netley Royal Victoria Hospital
Netley Commonwealth War Graves
Hamble HMS Mercury at St Andrews Church
Day 4 – Titchfield to Purbrook
St Peters Titchfield
Titchfield Cross
Wickham Memorial
St James, Southwick
Southwick House Unknown Soldier
Day 5 – Purbrook to Chidham
St Thomas and St Nicholas, Bedhampton
Men of Havant
Havant War Memorial hospital
Warblington Church Emsworth Memorial Garden ‘Abscene’
St James Emsworth
Day 6 – Chidham to Oving
Chidham St Marys
Bosham Remembrance Stone
Apuldram Cross
Fishbourne Memorial
Chichester Cathedral choristers
Chichester Royal Sussex paneling
Chichester Cross
Day 7 – Oving to Arundel
Oving School and Choristers
RAF Tangmere / Tangmere Parish
Boxgrove Major Lennox
Eartham Church
Slindon obelisk
Day 8 – Arundel to Chanctonbury
Arundel town
Arundel post office
Arundel Cathedral
Arundel St Nicholas
The Stuart Brothers
Patching Church
Findon Cross
Day 9 – Chanctonbury to Pyecombe
Wiston
Steyning Church
Bramber St Nicholas gateway
Fulking Church
Pyecombe parishioners
The Chattri Indian Memorial
Day 10 – Pyecombe to Hamsey
Offham
Hamsey altar
Day 11 –Hamsey to Firle
Lewes post delivery office
Lewes town centre
Lewes East Sussex Constabulary
Lewes St Thomas a Becket
Glynde
Day 12 – Firle to Wilmington
Firle shop
Firle Church
Alciston plaque
St Andrews Alfriston
Wilmington wheel cross
Day 13 – Wilmington to Wartling
Folkington
Jevington plaque
Willingdon memorial hall
Hankham
Herstmonceux All Saints Church
Day 14 – Wartling to Battle
Wartling Church plaque
Boreham Street
Ashburnham/Brownbread Street roadside cross
Penhurst
Catsfield St Laurence Church Cross
Battle Memorial Hall
St Mary Cross
Day 15 – Battle to Rye
Westfield Church
Icklesham Church
Icklesham memorial hall
F G Sargent Icklesham brass
Day 16 – Rye to Warehorne
Stone in Oxney memorial hall
Appledore School
Appledore Church
Kenardington church
Warehorne Church
Day 17 – Warehorne to Saltwood
Ham Street
Ruckinge Methodist chapel
Bilsington
St Rumwolds
Lympne church
Men of Cinque ports – Shepway cross
Day 18 – Saltwood to Capel
Saltwood Church
Saltwood village
Hythe URC
Hythe St Leonard’s Church
Hythe fire station
Hythe boy scouts
Hythe monument
Hythe post office
Sandgate air raid memorial
Shornecliffe cemetery
Folkestone WW1
Road of Remembrance Folkestone
Walter Tull memorial
St Eanswythe Church
RNAS Capel – Zeppelin site
Day 19 – Capel to St Margarets at Cliffe (via Dover)
West Hougham churchyard
Admiralty pier – returning wounded
South Eastern and Chatham Railway Dover (Cruise Terminal)
People of Dover cross
St James Church – first German bomb
St Margarets obelisk Dover Patrol
Day 20 – St Margarets to Knowlton
St Margarets at Cliffe role of honour
Ringwould Church
Sutton Church
Northbourne Church
Betteshanger St Mary’s Church
Tilmanstone Cross
Day 21 – Knowlton to Fordwich
Knowlton Thankful memorial
Goodnestone Holy Cross
Wingham St Marys
Wingham New Cemetery
Ickham gate
Ickham CWG
Littlebourne memorial hall
Littlebourne Church
Day 22 – Fordwich to Denstead Wood
Fordwich Screen
St Martins Church CWG
Canterbury Buttermarket
County of Kent in monastic burial ground
Canterbury Tales (formerly St Margarets Church)
Buffs Regimental chapel
Canadian buffs
Royal East Kent Yeomanry
Kent cyclists
Deakins staff
St Dunstans
Masonic Hall
Harbledown
Day 23 – Denstead to Teynham
Boughton Cross
Faversham gunpowder works explosion
St Catherine’s Church, Faversham
Faversham War Memorial Garden
Faversham Cross
St Peter’s Church, Oare
Uplees Munition Works
Day 24– Teynham to Lower Halstow
Teynham Parish Church window
Teynham Churchyard cross
Sittingbourne Post Office
Sittingbourne Avenue of Remembrance
St Michael’s Church Sittingbourne
Sittingbourne Cenotaph
Sittingbourne Holy Trinity Church
Holy Trinity Milton Regis
Day 25 – Lower Halstow to Rochester
St Margaret of Antioch Church
St Mary’s Church Upchurch
British Standard Cement Works
Gillingham Column
Gillingham Woodlands Cemetery HMS Glatton + Air Raid cross
Royal Engineers Obelisk Parade Square Brompton Baracks
Officers, Petty Officers and Men – St George’s Centre
Chatham Dockyards
Chatham Naval Memorial to the Missing (Great Lines)
Kitchener memorial
St Mary’s Church, Chatham
Nat West Bank memorial, Chatham
Fort Pitt Military Cemetery
Day 26 – Rochester to Gravesend
Rochester Cathedral – Royal Marines
Rochester cathedral cross
St Margaret’s Church
Leonard’s Department Store (City Wall Restaurant)
St Nicholas Church Strood
Shorne St Peter and Paul Church
Chalk St Mary’s Church
Day 27 – Gravesend to Dartford
Gravesend Windmill Hill Cross
Kent fire brigade
Imperial Paper Mills The White House Clifton Marine Parade
All Saints Shrine
Northfleet WW1 obelisk
Northfleeet Church
Bevans Cement Works
Swanscombe CWG
St Peter and St Paul’s Swanscombe
All Saints Swanscombe (Galley Church)
Stone column at Stone
Stone of Remembrance at Stone
Day 28 – Dartford to Greenwich
Dartford Town Memorial
Holy Trinity Church Dartford
Dartford Museum & Napkin
Christ Church Erith
St Johns Church Erith
Callenders Cable Co memorial
Erith Technical Institute War Memorial Playing Fields
Plumstead Common Memorial Howitzer brigade
Woolwich Artillery Barracks
St Michael’s Church Woolwich
Woolwich Town Hall
Greenwich Park Borough Memorial
Day 29 – Greenwich to Westminster
St John’s Church
Metropolitan Gas Company
Dreadnought Seamans hospital
St Alphege’s Church
National Maritime museum
St Peter’s Brockley
Brockley Baptist Church
St Hilda’s Brockley
Nunhead Obelisk
Nunhead Australians
Dulwich Christ Church URC
Dulwich Old College
St Pauls Church
Lambeth Borough Town Hall
Brixton Afro Caribbean memorial
Our Lady of Rosary Church – Brixton Independent Church
Stockwell War Memorial Garden Mural
Stockwell Clocktower
St James Piccadilly
Day 30 – Westminster Abbey
The Cenotaph
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
