Indicative map

The map indicates the walking journeys created & followed by groups using a ‘developmental’ approach to pilgrimage.

The walks listed below began as an educational activity designed to assist understanding of traditional pilgrimage:
The ancient concept of ‘journeying to a specific goal for a personal or social efficacious purpose’.

The Bishop’s Castle Pilgrimages 1976 – 1990

Hereford (’76 &’89). Also: ’92, ’94, 2016
Llanthony Priory (‘77)
Strata Florida (‘78)
Pennant Melangell (‘79)
St David’s (’80)
Glastonbury (‘82)
York (‘83)
Llandanwg (‘84)
Mwnt (‘85)
Whitchurch Canonicorum (‘86)
Liverpool (‘87)
Nefern (‘88)
Coventry (‘90)

Other Group Pilgrimages

Ely – Walsingham (BBC, ‘88)
Coventry – Canterbury
London – Pegwell Bay, Canterbury (WWF ‘89)
Wilburton – Lincoln (‘91)
Sarn – Hereford (92, 94)
Sarn – Llanbadarn Fawr (’93)
Coventry – Worcester (’95)
Worc’str – Abbey Cwmhir (’96)

Pathways: ID CIC Group Peregrinations

Clynnog Fawr & Llangybi to
Ynys Enlli (’96)
Hereford – Strata Florida (’97)
Gladestry – Mwnt (’98)
Durham – Sunderland Point (’99)
Ingleton – Sunderland Point (’99)
Bledda – Pennant Melangell (’00)
Burnley – Ripon (’02)
Buxton – Lincoln (’03)
28a. Sarn – Leicester (’03)
Leicester – Ely (’04)
Bury St Edmunds – St. Albans (’05)
Gloucester – Bishop’s Castle (’06)
Boston – St. Edmundsbury (’07)
Mitchell’s Fold – Jodrell Bank (’07)
Mwnt – St David’s (’08)
Salter’s Brook Bridge – Chelford (‘08)
Mow Cop – Hilbre Island (’09)
Hereford- Birmingham (’09)
Kentigern Trail: Part One
Chester – Sunderland Point (‘10)
Oxford – Birmingham (‘10)
Kentigern Trail: Part Two
Lancaster – Long Meg (‘11)
Bellingham – Simonburn (‘11)
Llanfair Waterdine – Ratlinghope (’12)
Llanfair Waterdine – Hyssington (‘13)
Abbey Cwmhir – Sarn (‘14)
Worcester – Ironstone Group (‘15)
Hyssington – Hereford (‘16)
Yeovil – Cerne Abbas (‘17)
Shaftesbury – East Coker (‘19)
Bradford Abbas – Hilfield (‘19)

Kentigern Trail Exploratory Peregrinations

Creating a walking trail based on ancient cultural associations & connecting St Asaph, North Wales & Glasgow, Central Scotland.

(38 & 40: Route from Chester to Eden Valley (Cumbria)

Langwathby/Long Meg – Gretna (‘20)
Kentigern Trail Exploration
St Asaph to Chester (‘21/‘22)
Kentigern Trail Exploration
Gretna – Lockerbie – Moffat – Abington (’24)
Abington – New Lanark – Glasgow (’25)

Pilgrimage:

a purposeful physical journey found in (and beyond) all religions.

Effort, Reflection & Exploration of what the term ‘devotion’ may presently mean have been essential elements in the journeys listed above:
the outer physical journey accompanied by an equivalent metaphorical internal journey.

Rather than reinforcing or confirming existing faith through penance &/or gratitude or solely acquisition of personal ‘spiritual merit’, the journeys encouraged learning (at all levels, personal, social, emotional & spiritual) through ‘discovery & development’.

The journeys have been purposeful ‘goal centred’ (& therefore ‘direct’) recognising that the nature & ‘process’ of the journey provides (in various ways) a major part of the ‘efficacy’ of the action.
The emphasis on ‘the journey’ (often over and above the significance of the destination) has become a significant development in many recent pilgrimage activities.

Most of the peregrinations, as listed on earlier maps (below) occurred before digital media evolved to allow easy publication.