The Spiritual Traveler: England, Scotland, Wales : the Guide to Sacred Sites and Pilgrim Routes in BritainHidden Spring, 2000 - 317 pages Includes Tips for Overnight Lodging in Monasteries, Abbeys and Spiritual Centers (in Places of Peace and Rest). The Spiritual Traveler: England, Scotland, Wales is a unique guide book. It takes us on a journey across the rural and urban landscapes of Britain, and helps us to discover and explore a multitude of sacred sites: ancient stone circles and tombs, Christian and pre-Christian shrines, medieval synagogues, small country churches and soaring cathedrals, Eastern temples, abbey ruins, sacred cities, holy wells and rivers, ancient yew trees and monastery gardens. The Spiritual Traveler reveals the stories behind these extraordinary places of spiritual power, and offers thirteen pilgrim routes by car, bike or foot, including: - the path of the Celts from Iona to Lindisfarne; - the ancient Saints' Way in North Wales; - a multi-faith pilgrimage to Muslim mosques, Jewish synagogues, Quaker meeting houses, Hindu temples and Buddhist shrines; - the Pilgrims' Way from London to Canterbury; - the powerful route of women mystics from Ely to Walsingham; - in search of King Arthur from Glastonbury to Tintagel; - the Road of Stones from Stonehenge to Avebury. + |
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... evidence of very early peoples living in Britain as far back as 450,000 years ago , the onset of the last ice age pushed them out of most parts of the island . The Last Ice Age Ends When the last great ice CHAPTER 1: The History of the ...
... evidence of very early peoples living in Britain as far back as 450,000 years ago , the onset of the last ice age pushed them out of most parts of the island . The Last Ice Age Ends When the last great ice CHAPTER 1: The History of the ...
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... sites whose faith is lost to us have in a book on Sacred Britain - a book primarily concerned with living faiths ? After all , we know next to nothing of the beliefs , myths or language CHAFTER 2: Stone Circles and Tombs.
... sites whose faith is lost to us have in a book on Sacred Britain - a book primarily concerned with living faiths ? After all , we know next to nothing of the beliefs , myths or language CHAFTER 2: Stone Circles and Tombs.
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... living and scare away the dis- possessed . The building of henges come later . The earliest seem to date from c.3000 BC , and the addition of stone came a few hundred years later . New knowledge which the Neolithic peoples acquired led ...
... living and scare away the dis- possessed . The building of henges come later . The earliest seem to date from c.3000 BC , and the addition of stone came a few hundred years later . New knowledge which the Neolithic peoples acquired led ...
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Contents
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Wells | 35 |
Sacred Cities | 46 |
Sacred Plant and Animal Life | 60 |
PILGRIM ROUTES THROUGH SACRED BRITAIN | 73 |
ENGLAND | 78 |
Stonehenge to Glastonbury | 177 |
St Michaels Mount to Tintagel | 193 |
WALES | 201 |
Llandaff to St Davids | 217 |
SCOTLAND | 231 |
A Multifaith Pilgrimage | 260 |
Places to Stay Along the Way | 285 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 294 |
Ely to Walsingham | 103 |
Lincoln to Crowland | 118 |
Lichfield to Mam Tor | 132 |
Ripon to Jarrow | 141 |
Cartmel to Aspatria | 158 |
Worcester to DorchesteronThames | 164 |
GENERAL INDEX | 295 |
INDEX OF PLACES | 300 |
CREDITS | 304 |
MAPS OF SACRED BRITAIN | 306 |
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abbey ancient Anglo-Saxon Archbishop ASPATRIA Bardsey Island became Bishop Bristol Bronze Age building built burial mounds buried Bury St Edmunds Canterbury Cartmel castle cathedral Celtic Christianity Celts century chapel church of St cross CROSSCANONBY Crowland cult CUMBRIA Cuthbert Dorchester-on-Thames DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY East England English faith famous follow local signs garden Glasgow Glastonbury Gwynedd henge hill holy Iona Iron Age King land legend Lincoln Lindisfarne living London medieval miles Minster monastery monastic monks mosque Neolithic Norman nunnery parish church pilgrims prayer priory Reformation religious remains Ripon ritual river Roman Rome ruins sacred landscape saint Saxon Scotland shrine Somerset spiritual St Edmund stands stone circles Stonehenge story temple Threekingham tomb town tradition tree Ulverston Urswick Vikings village Wales walls welcomed for overnight Welsh Winchester worship York York Minster Yorkshire
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Page 111 - Twelve years have elapsed since I last took a view Of my favourite field, and the bank where they grew ; And now in the grass behold they are laid, And the tree is my seat that once lent me a shade.
Page 226 - THE earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
Page 112 - And the scene, where his melody charm'd me before, Resounds with his sweet-flowing ditty no more. My fugitive years are all hasting away, And I must ere long lie as lowly as they, With a turf on my breast, and a stone at my head, Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead. 'Tis a sight to engage me, if any thing can, To muse on the perishing pleasures of man ; Though his life be a dream, his enjoyments, I see, Have a being less durable even than he...
Page 90 - But she would weep to see today how on his skin the swart flies move; the dust upon the paper eye and the burst stomach like a cave. For here the lover and killer are mingled who had one body and one heart. And death who had the soldier singled has done the lover mortal hurt.
Page 53 - And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven, saying ; Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God...
Page xi - If you came this way, Taking any route, starting from anywhere, At any time or at any season, It would always be the same: you would have to put off Sense and notion.
Page 158 - He sang the creation of the world, the origin of man, and all the history of Genesis: and made many verses on the departure of the children of Israel out of Egypt, and their entering into the land of promise, with many other histories from holy writ...
Page 200 - From dust I rise, And out of nothing now awake; These brighter regions which salute mine eyes A gift from God I take. The earth, the seas, the light, the day, the skies, The sun and stars are mine; if those I prize.