Walking The Pilgrims' Way

To Canterbury from Winchester and London / Leigh Hatts

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Wouldham Church

Wouldham Church will be open this Saturday 4 March from 10am to 4pm for an arts and crafts day. Riverside Wouldham is on the way to and from Rochester.

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Pilgrims’ Way guide published today

Publication day for Cicerone’s Walking The Pilgrims’ Way has been rainy. But that is appropriate since Chaucer wrote about April showers. It has been great fun marking the book’s launch by visiting the London starting point. First to Talbot Yard where a blue plaque on the site of The Tabard from where one early spring morning Chaucer’s characters […]

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Thomas A Becket in Old Kent Road now open

The Thomas A Becket pub at the first ‘stop’ out of London on the Pilgrims’ Way has reopened. The present Thomas A Becket pub building opened in 1898 on the site of an ancient inn on London’s Old Kent Road. It is located at a spot known as St Thomas a Watering. Here a bridge […]

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Southwark’s Spur Inn reopens

The Premier Inn in London’s Borough High Street opens today. It is on the Pilgrims’ Way and just a few minutes from its start at Southwark Cathedral. The hotel entrance is in Spur Inn Yard and on the site of both the lost Spur Inn and part of the next door Nag’s Head. A little further […]