Canterbury Cathedral Pilgrimage in a Day – 5 x 1-day pilgrimages to Canterbury Cathedral + an extra 1-day Canterbury City Circular Pilgrimage. Canterbury was where St Augustine first settled, on a mission from Rome to convert England to Christianity, and where Thomas Becket, the 12th-century Archbishop, was murdered in the Cathedral. The city has welcomed pilgrims for over a thousand years, attracted by St Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury Cathedral and St Martin’s Church – the oldest church in the English-speaking world – and its many other ancient churches, saints, holy springs, and, latterly, Chaucer’s tales. Give yourself an extra day to explore the city and hear the cathedral choir sing evensong.
See the Google Map red line for the 4-mile city circular pilgrimage route visiting all of Canterbury’s most significant holy places in a single day.
Old Way (From Patrixbourne, 8 miles)
North Downs Pilgrims Way (From Chilham, 7 miles)
Augustine Camino (From Faversham, 12 miles)
Via Francigena in England (From Shepherdswell, 11 miles)
Wye to Canterbury (12.5 miles)
Terrain: footpaths, fields and road.
Click to download routes in GPX file format for your smartphone’s map app
Instructions for using a GPX file to show you the route offline on your smartphone
Buy North Downs Pilgrims Way Guidebook
Virtual Becket Pilgrimage within Canterbury Cathedral
Buy Cathedral Pilgrim Passport here
A Day Pilgrimage from Chilham to Canterbury
- St Mary’s, Chilham
- Orchards beyond Chilham
- Beyond Chilham
- A pilgrim in the element, near Old Wives Lees
- Cornflower fields beyond Old Wives Lees
- Path and Poppies
- Path through No Man’s Orchard
- Path through No Man’s Orchard 2
- Path through Bigbury Wood
- Harbledown ‘Bob up and down’ Town Sign
- St Nicholas, Harbledown
- St Thomas Well, restored by the Black Prince
- St Michael and All Angels, Harbledown Parish Church
- St Dunstan’s Church, Canterbury, where Thomas More’s head is buried, and from where Henry II made pilgrimage in penance
- Westgate, Canterbury
- Eastbridge Pilgrims Hospital, place of sanctuary for weary medieval pilgrims needing a bed
- Over the River Stour
- St Thomas’s RC Church, St Thomas Fingerbone relic on left, and garment on right Close-Up
- Canterbury Cathedral from King’s School Green
- Pilgrim Steps, Canterbury Cathedral
- St Anselm’s Altar, by Stephen Cox, Canterbury Cathedral
- Trinity Shrine, Canterbury Cathedral
Queen Bertha’s Walk (English Heritage)
- St Martin’s Church, Canterbury
- St Martin’s Churchyard, Canterbury
- St Martin’s Spring, Canterbury
- St Augustine’s Conduit, Canterbury
- View of Cathedral and St Augustine’s Abbey from St Martins Churchyard
- St Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury
- Queen Bertha, Lady Wootton’s Green
- Queen Bertha and King Ethelbert and Canterbury Cathedral in background
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