Brian Rose of London Real took his daughter on our London Pilgrimage and here is the result. Rupert Sheldrake is interviewed.
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Jason Goodwin tells of the plight of Dragomen, those who guide groups. Our London pilgrimage is used as an example. Read the article here.
Delilah Khomo of Porter walked with us on our Feb 3rd pilgrimage from Tower of London to Westminster Abbey, choosing it as one of her favourite things to do in London! Come on our next pilgrimage on May 16th. Read the article here.
Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon discuss pilgrimage, and in particular their experience of the BPT’s guided London Pilgrimage on 3rd Feb 2019, in a 20-min podcast. Listen here.
Dr Sally Welch writes about the resurgence of interest in pilgrimage in the Church Times Travel Supplement, which lists five pilgrimage routes around Britain to try. The article links to BPT – do check out our routes directory to find more routes.
Jason Goodwin wrote about a new 1-day pilgrimage route from Littlebredy to Abbotsbury, in the Boxing Day edition of Country Life, featuring certain walks around Britain. View the South Dorset Old Stones Way here. It says ‘Great Stones Way’ but we’re calling it ‘Old Stones Way’.
The British Pilgrimage Trust has had a productive and exciting year. We have been working hard to realise the Trust’s vision, creating a set of effective and powerful tools for supporting the practice of pilgrimage across Britain. Guided pilgrimages– In 2017, the Trust held 11 pilgrimages, giving over 400 people access to the practice.– In […]
BPT’s Guy Hayward spoke with Tonderai Munyevu (Black Men Walking) during a 1-day BPT guided pilgrimage on the South Downs, in a programme that was broadcast on 26th June 2018. Listen to whole programme here.
Last March, on Good Friday, 30 March 2018, BPT’s Guy Hayward appeared in the third and final episode of BBC2 TV Series ‘Pilgrimage: The Road to Santiago’ with TV personalities Heather Small, Ed Byrne, Neil Morrissey, Debbie McGee, Kate Bottley, JJ Chalmers, Raphael Rowe. In the first fragment, he gets a few of them to […]
Thanks to Jo Carnegie for this article on different winter pilgrimage options around Christmas.
Emma Pritchard wrote this wonderful article in the Winter Issue of Country Living magazine. Andrew Montgomery took the photos, and that shoot was unlike any other, pouncing on the snow windows. Pilgrimage in the winter is very special. (Photo © Will Parsons)
Co-founder William Parsons’ recent Pilgrimage of Remembrance, featuring 100 recordings of silence at 100 WW1 war memorials, was featured in the Southampton Echo newspaper. Read the article here: https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/16994487.william-parsons-36-who-is-the-co-founder-of-the-british-pilgrimage-trust-started-his-pilgrimage-which-will-take-him-from-southampton-to-london-via-dover/
Church Times launches ‘1-day pilgrimage routes to cathedrals’ and ‘godparent-child pilgrimages’ projects ‘Turn cathedral visitors into pilgrims,’ says British Pilgrimage Trust by PAUL WILKINSON 05 OCTOBER 2018 People are being asked to devise pilgrimage routes that would take a single day to each of the cathedrals in Britain. “It’s the most accessible way to engage with […]
European Foreign Correspondent for National Public Radio in America, Stephen Beard, joined the BPT’s guided Old Way pilgrimage event in August 2018, and made this rather punchy 4-min radio feature for a programme that went out to 14 million American listeners! Listen here
A 1-day pilgrimage in Winchester, with the foreign correspondent of Swiss National Newspaper “Die Neue Zurcher Zeitung”, Markus Haefliger: https://www.nzz.ch/international/glaeubige-und-atheisten-auf-alten-pilgerwegen-ld.1367920
At the end of May, a farm pilgrimage was made journeying three miles from the source of the River Dickler with over 100 sustainable farmers, finishing at Fir Farm to arrive for the opening session of the Future of UK Farming Conference, led by Michael Gove, DEFRA Minister, and Minette Batters, President of the National Farmers’ […]
“I spent two years walking to every cathedral in England – and made some incredible discoveries” Over the course of two years, the Earl of Selborne undertook to walk to every cathedral in England, and found himself inspired by stunning architecture, amazing music, beautiful countryside – and the occasional canalside pub. Read his wonderful article here.
Click here to read Harriet Sherwood’s article about the recent TV series on BBC2 ‘Pilgrimage: The Road to Santiago’ – in which she mentions The Old Way to Canterbury.
We are very glad to share this article about BPT guided pilgrimages with you which appears in the Spring 2018 Issue of Porter Magazine. Many thanks to Delilah Khomo, Catherine Fairweather and the team at Porter.
Guy from the British Pilgrimage Trust meets Tony Robinson on Channel 4, and sings to him the oldest English song with words and music written down together in c. 1160 – ‘Sainte Marie’ by Saint Godric of Finchale – before taking him to the oldest and largest stone cross on Dartmoor – Nun’s Cross – […]
We as the BPT are wanting to promote pilgrimage in Britain at large. We have recently set up a Great Routes directory and we now have the capability to launch an Events Directory. If you know of a pilgrimage event happening near you, please let us know by emailing events@britishpilgrimage.org. Thank you. Or, if you are feeling […]
Wanderlust travel magazine reports on the Old Way pilgrimage to Canterbury. With thanks to Phoebe Smith!
With thanks to John Walsh for this excellent article!
The Guardian’s Harriet Sherwood joined The British Pilgrimage Trust for a day on the Old Way pilgrimage to Canterbury. This is what she wrote about it…
A 2015 Song Pilgrimage Day 1: Maria Durch Ein Dornwald Ging (in St Mary’s Church Willesden) We began at St Mary’s Willesden, a church with a Black Madonna statue and a holy well. We launched our pilgrimage to Walsingham amid the bustle of the church food bank. This is a German carol, taught to […]
Alan Franks’ Guardian article was summarised in The Week, in the centre of the Travel section in the 10 Dec 2016 issue.
This October, we made an 11 day pilgrimage to the source of the song Jerusalem. Journalist Alan Franks joined us for the final few days, and wrote a feature article for the Guardian Travel section. Here’s the article…
Earlier this year Will took Tony Robinson on a pilgrimage to Britain’s largest virgin Oak tree – called Majesty, near Nonington. Last Saturday, the programme aired on Channel 4. You can watch the whole thing on the Channel 4 website – it’s good – go ahead. Or you can just watch our clip, here: (Photo […]
This October, we made an 11 day pilgrimage to the source of the song Jerusalem. Four days in, the Evening Standard kindly covered the event in the Londoner’s Diary section. Here’s the articlette…
THE SONG ITSELF DAY 0 – Travelling to London (with interviews) DAY 1 (The Start) – Primrose Hill at Sunrise DAY 1 (Part II) – Bunhill Fields to St. Paul’s Cathedral DAY 1 (Part III) – Fleet Street to Piccadilly DAY 2 – Piccadilly to Battersea DAY 3 – Wimbledon to Hampton Court DAY 4 […]
To make our pilgrimage to Jerusalem the song, we had a plan. We tried to follow it. But as ever on pilgrimage, the whim of journey was key. If solid local knowledge presented itself in the form of an old dear’s wise whispers, or if a quest emerged from the forest, or if the wind […]
To honour the 100 year anniversary of Jerusalem (the song), from October 22nd to November 1st 2016 the BPT made a 125 mile pilgrimage from London to Sussex, the birthplace of Britain’s unofficial national anthem. A Pilgrimage Collaboration Between: The Blake Society (Honouring and Celebrating the work of William Blake) Millican Backpacks (Making […]
THE SONG ITSELF DAY 0 – Travelling to London (with interviews) DAY 1 (The Start) – Primrose Hill at Sunrise DAY 1 (Part II) – Bunhill Fields to St. Paul’s Cathedral DAY 1 (Part III) – Fleet Street to Piccadilly DAY 2 – Piccadilly to Battersea DAY 3 – Wimbledon to Hampton Court DAY 4 […]
In September this year, County Walking Magazine opened with this feature on our work in restoring British pilgrimage. Many thanks Country Walking!
This July, two trustees from the BPT – Guy Hayward and William Parsons – made a 5 day pilgrimage from the source of the river Teifi in the Cambrian Mountains, to the sea at Cardigan. The route not only connects the river’s place of birth to its death, but also two great monasteries of Wales […]
Last Saturday (July 2016) the British Pilgrimage Trust featured heavily in an article in the Spectator. We had little choice about the line the journalist took, and he decided on a ‘pilgrimage now with less Christianity’ angle – which is strangely quantitative, and possibly mis-leading, because there can be as much Christianity as you want […]
This July (2016) the BPT took the wonderful Tony Robinson on a pilgrimage – the first one (he says) he has ever made. We’re not sure we entirely believe him – we suspect Britain makes far more pilgrimage than it realises, albeit perhaps unconsciously. This piece was for Channel 4, and will come out this […]
Register Your Interest in Weekend Pilgrimage The Pilot Pilgrimage This August, the British Pilgrimage Trust is piloting a weekend pilgrimage scheme. If there is enough interest, we hope to be running it at Firle Church for the first two weekends in August – 6/7 & 13/14, and at another (as yet unconfirmed) church for the last […]
In early March 2016, six students from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance approached the British Pilgrimage Trust for help in devising a Greenwich musical pilgrimage, which connects the holy places of Greenwich along a new pilgrimage route of song. The group were from Trinity Laban’s CoLab week, in which students from diverse musical backgrounds […]
An article in The Independent newspaper (29/12/15) announces the launch of this website, and the British Pilgrimage Trust’s ongoing work toward renovating British pilgrimage. Just in time for a big new year of making this vision a reality on the ground…