A unique traditional walking pilgrimage to Canterbury and beyond Visiting living monasteries, shrines and cathedrals Full of beautiful and holy places Walking in the footsteps of medieval pilgrims Feeder route to the Camino de Santiago Starting at Rochester Cathedral the…
Non Angli sed Angeli (not English but Angels) are the words attributed to Pope Gregory the Great on coming across English slave boys in the market in Rome. This chance meeting prompted him to send Augustine to convert the English to…
Something that becomes very obvious as you explore the Augustine Camino is the many layered history over which you are walking. Just above Aylesford there are the remains of two stone age long barrows, Kit’s Coty and Little Kit’s Coty. King…
Today we head deep into the beautiful Kent Downs. Here are unspoilt villages, woods, parkland and a lovely church designed by Pugin’s son Edward. The path takes us to Canterbury via Faversham – a charming old town on the Chaucer…
A pleasant walk through parkland and fields to the shrine of St Jude in Faversham. St Jude, one of the Apostles and the Patron Saint of Lost Causes, is still widely popular. There are many legends about him, including that he…
Canterbury is today’s destination, until the reformation, the focus of pilgrimage in England. During the Middle Ages St Augustine’s Abbey stood just beyond the Cathedral and would have been almost as big. Pilgrims would have headed there to the Shrine…
This day starts with a visit to the ruins of St Augustine’s Abbey and the Church of St Martin. We then pass through woodland and meadows to Fordwich where the Church of St Mary the Virgin holds what could be the remains…
On the last day of the Camino we cross to the Isle of Thanet and Minster Abbey before returning to St Augustine, first to the spot where he came ashore and finally to his Church and Shrine in Ramsgate. The…
Book in confidence – accommodation bookings, pilgrim welcomes and baggage transfers can usually be postponed or cancelled free of charge up to the week before departure. The £20 per person per day booking fees are non refundable. Accommodation booking, pilgrim…