Churches Tourism Association

Routes, trails and journeys - this page list a number of articles about pilgrimage routes or sacred theme trails, including long-distance walking routes, cycleways, car trails and area- or thematically-based church trails. If you know of an interesting trail that you think should be featured here, please send us brief details - preferable with a photo or image that we may use to illustrate this!

Articles about the idea of pilgrimage, and advice and resources for those considering developing new routes.

"We can... help people to become pilgrims. The desire for pilgrimage... was one of the great motifs in Celtic Christianity... Pilgrimage did not just mean going to a particularly holy shrine. It involved a whole approach to life and faith which stressed the themes of journeying, travelling and moving on. It meant sitting lightly to the things of the world and understanding that here we have no abiding city. It led people to join up with others as they walked the great highway of faith." (Dr Ian Bradley, Entertaining Angels - on the Sacred Scotland website)