PILGRIMAGE PIECES

or more than 400 years brave souls from every corner of Britain regularly set forth on journeys that might have taken them hundreds of miles from their homes in an age when travel beyond one’s own parish boundary seemed remarkable. Destinations included Canterbury, St Andrews, Holywell, Glastonbury, Walsingham, or for those with deeper purses and braver hearts, a perilous Channel crossing and a year-long trek to Santiago, or Rome, or even to Jerusalem, regarded in those days as the very