Linear Routes 1. from Caistor St Edmund – 7 miles – Burgundy line on Google Map. You start at the site of a Roman camp and town at Caistor St Edmund, where a church founded in the Saxon era sits in the south-east corner. Some of the church’s fabric dates back to the 11th century, and the earliest written record dates from the reign of Edward the Confessor. The route then traces through fields towards the city, stopping to make an important detour to the shrine of the renowned anchorite Lady Julian, in St Julian’s Church. It then continues on to Norwich Cathedral itself.
2. from Surlingham Church Ruins – 7 miles. Yellow line on Google Map. The ruins of St Saviour’s church, Surlingham, are an evocative landmark overlooking the marshes of the Yare Valley. The church was early Norman, late 11th Century foundation. Originally there were two parishes in Surlingham, and St Saviour was linked to the nearby Surlingham manor. Follow the River Yare to join up with route 1 at Trowse Newton Church.
Circular Route ‘Norwich Pilgrimage’ – 3 miles – pink line on Google Map below, with optional scenic sections marked by purple lines. Norwich Cathedral (Church of England), St. John the Baptist Cathedral (Roman Catholic), and St. Julian’s Church with the Julian of Norwich Shrine, collaborated to make a pilgrimage between these three holy places. Download map here.
‘Nooks and Crannies‘ – another spiralling loopy heritage route which includes many holy places, designed by Norwich Council.
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Buy Cathedral Pilgrim Passport here
- Caistor St Edmunds Church Exterior
- Caistor St Edmunds Church inside Venta Icenorum
- Venta Icenorum Roman Town Ramparts from outside
- Site of Anglo Saxon Shrine looking back at Caistor Church
- Across Norfolk Landscape
- Dandelion Logo along Boudicca’s Way
- Arminghall Church Flint
- An Africa-shaped hole in an old tree, Arminghall Wood
- The path beckons
- Ancient Henge
- King David and his angels, Trowse Millgate
- St Andrew’s, Trowse Millgate
- Font of St Julian’s Church
- St Julian Icon
- St Julian of Norwich Shrine, on site of her cell
- Dragon Hall, National Centre for Writing
- Edith Cavell statue by Erpingham Gate
- Norwich Cathedral West Front through Erpingham Gate
- St Mary the Less, Tombland
- Norwich Cathedral West Front
- Norwich Cathedral Cloisters
- Norwich Cathedral Nave
- Candle lighting – Norwich Cathedral
- St Felix – Norwich Cathedral
- Lady Chapel – Norwich Cathedral
- Jesus Chapel – Norwich Cathedral
- North Transept – Norwich Cathedral
- Norwich Cathedral Quire
- East Quire of Norwich Cathedral
- Norwich Cathedral Spire at Evening
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