We got up at daybreak, for a cuppa, some homemade soda bread and Pilgrim's cheese. We set off at a good pace and soon made it to Chilham Castle. Passing this we passed acre's and acres of apple orchards. We found a snake in one of them. Also passed the Pilgrim's Hospital, where we tried to drop Ashley off.
Franklin has brought this as his country pad!!
Wonderful full moon accompanied by the sounds of birds and animals.- feed:
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10 day walk raises funds for School
In aid of Destiny Junior School in Uganda.
Simon, Ashley and Franklin set off on the 3rd of October 2011 from Winchester Cathedral and walked 140 miles to Canterbury Cathedral, arriving on the 12th. If you would like to contribute to the school click the Paypal button or give us a call on +44 777 023 1794.
Anyone walking the 'Pilgrims Way' from Winchester would have started along the Roman road east following the route through New Alresford, Alton and Bentley to Farnham. This roughly follows the modern A31.
The ancient main streets of towns along the route from Farnham (where the old trackway converges with the pilgrims' route)[2] through Guildford, Dorking and Reigate (where a pilgrims' chapel, dedicated to St Thomas, was established[15]) — align west to east, strongly suggesting that this was the most important route that passed through them. On modern Ordnance Survey maps, part of the route is shown running east from Farnham, passing to the south of Guildford, north of the village of Gomshall, north of Dorking, Reigate, Merstham, Chaldon, Godstone, Limpsfield and Westerham, throughOtford, Kemsing and Wrotham, north of Trottiscliffe, towards Cuxton (where it crossed the River Medway). Along some stretches the pilgrims' route left the ancient trackway to encompass religious sites, an example being at Pewley Down, near Guildford, where the later way passed St Martha's Hill and The Chantries, some 500 metres to the south.[2] The thirteenth-century chapel of St Thomas at Reigate, although not on the route, was built for the pilgrims' use.[16] South of Rochester, the Pilgrims' Way travels through the villages of Burham, Boxley, Detling and continuing in a south-east direction to the north of the villages of Harrietsham and Lenham. The route continues south-east along the top of the Downs past Charing, to Wye and then turns north to follow the valley of the Great Stour through Chilham and on to Canterbury.
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Dear friends, on Monday Oct 3rd Simon (Rosselli) & I set off to walk along the ancient "Pilgrims, Way", from Winchester cathedral to Canterbury cathedral & we are hoping to make it by Friday evening 7th Oct. We' are travelling light with sleeping bags, tea kettle,(luxury item), socks, drovers, hats for rain etc so for sleeping we depend on human kindness hopefully to stay in barns and suchlike so all the funds raised will go to Destiny Junior school (Uganda) & some to this youth and community building in London, a place where we have hosted several African festivals and other events.
A word about Destiny school in Kibiri, a small village not far from the shore of lake Victoria, between Kampala and Entebbe. A few years ago Simeon and Jessica started bringing orphaned and impoverished children into their home to teach and to care for them. By the time I ran into them whilst doing other community projects in the area, in 2008, they had already got around 60 kids coming every day, too many for their small home and they were having trouble even feeding them something simple like matoke once a day. To cut a long story short, Robert Mwogeza (director IRFF Uganda) and I felt compelled to help.
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The Pilgrim's Way
The Pilgrims' Way is the historic route supposed to have been taken by pilgrims from Winchester in Hampshire, England, to the shrine of Thomas Becket at Canterbury in Kent. This name is somewhat misleading, as the route follows closely a pre-existing ancient trackway dated by archaeological finds to 500–450 BC, but probably in existence since the stone age, following the "natural causeway" east to west on the southern slopes of the North Down. The original route is 192 km (119 miles) in length, though most people take the route off the main roads, which is around 140 miles.