Pilgrims’ Way

Pilgrims’ Way churches with stamps

A list of churches and pubs on the Pilgrims Way where you can get a stamp in your passport

Pilgrims’ Way, Winchester to Alresford

Section 1 of the Pilgrims’ Way where I get my passport at Winchester and set off across Hampshire in 30° heat and unflattering headwear.

Pilgrims’ Way, Alresford to Alton

Section 2 of the Pilgrims’ Way where I bring Shovell the dog and am delighted to get a free chocolate biscuit bar in Bishops Sutton

Pilgrims’ Way, Alton to Farnham

Section 3 of the Pilgrims’ Way where Shovell the dog explores a lot of straw and we eat a lot of blackberries

Pilgrims’ Way, Farnham to Guildford

Section 4 of the Pilgrims’ Way where we go the wrong way, we find some excellent places to eat, and we walk up an inland beach

Pilgrims’ Way: Guildford to Gomshall

Stage 5a of the Pilgrims’ Way in which I fail to find a dragon’s cave and fail to find hospitality in a quintessentially expensive Surrey village

Pilgrims’ Way, Gomshall to Box Hill

Stage 5b of the Pilgrims’ Way in which I immerse myself in beech woods and after some quiet contemplation decide to wish thunderbolts on a church spire.

Pilgrims’ Way, Box Hill to Merstham

Stage 6 of the Pilgrims Way in which I witness a murder* *of crows

Pilgrims’ Way, Merstham to Oxted

Section 7 of the Pilgrims’ Way in which we walk the ridge of the downs accompanied by the constant rumble of the London Orbital and I am delighted to find a stinkpipe

Pilgrims’ Way, Oxted to Otford

Stage 8 of the Pilgrims’ Way in which we miss a golden opportunity to steal Liz Truss’s acorns and I make a series of inappropriate jokes

Pilgrims’ Way, Otford to Wrotham

Stage 9 of the Pilgrims Way in which I have ringing in my ears which for once isn’t tinnitus and consider foraging and living in a ditch

Pilgrims’ Way, Wrotham to Halling

Stage 10 of the Pilgrims’ Way in which I walk for thousands of years from neolithic to industrial times

Pilgrims’ Way, Halling to Aylesford

Stage 11 of the Pilgrims’ Way in which I walk an unloved section along the Medway, and consider opening a tea room for sexually immoral murderous idolators, that lets dogs in.