Hilaire Belloc sets out to trace the ancient trackway that ran from Winchester to Canterbury, long known as the Pilgrims’ Way, and argues it is far older than any pilgrimage. Part theory and part field exploration, he follows it on foot across the chalk of Hampshire, Surrey and Kent, reading the land for sunken lanes, ferries, churches and yews.
A founding work of English walking literature, as much about the pull of antiquity as about the road itself. Download the free EPUB.