Cathedrals Cycle Route baton in Handover ahead of 2025 Relay Event
26th November 2024
The Cathedrals Cycle Route baton has arrived at Bradford Cathedral from Newcastle ahead of City of Culture year. The baton – created for
26th November 2024
The Cathedrals Cycle Route baton has arrived at Bradford Cathedral from Newcastle ahead of City of Culture year. The baton – created for
11th September 2024
Westminster Abbey will open its doors next month for the annual pilgrimage to the shrine of St Edward the Confessor. Westminster Abbey to welcome
10th September 2024
Norwich Cathedral will today (Tuesday 10 September) host a special conference to celebrate Norfolk as it becomes the first UK member of an
09th August 2024
Discover Cathedrals this Summer The AEC took its own message to heart this weekend with a trip to see what they could discover in our cathedrals
21st July 2021
Summer’s here … what will you discover? English Cathedrals take you to the moon and back to earth by way of dinosaurs – or rather most famous
15th July 2021
A keen cyclist and canon missioner at Southwark Cathedral is getting on his bike to ride the length and breadth of England as a prayerful journey
08th July 2021
It’s coming home … Not that ….(but we want that to come home too!!) but the baton that has been passed Olympic style between every
06th July 2021
In the last full week of the relay the route turned finally turned north again, with over 1,600 miles covered. Cathedrals Cycle Route. How Week 5
28th June 2021
In the toughest week so far, the CCR relay bike ride hit the far south-west with 1, 231 miles ridden. Rain and Rainbows this week on the
21st June 2021
This week they hit the halfway mark – with 893 miles ridden! It was Hodge the Cat who was centre of attention for our intrepid cyclists on
14th June 2021
8 cathedrals: 305 miles: Sunshine all the way! We’re in London today for the next legs of our relay on the inaugural Cathedrals Cycle Route
08th June 2021
The sun shone for the first week of the national relay to launch the new Cathedrals Cycle Route – and no-one dropped the baton! Cathedrals Cycle
05th June 2021
In just 26 days, with around 1650 bike miles in the saddle, sometimes facing the extremes of torrential rain, hail, freezing cold and baking
02nd June 2021
The sunshine, the launch of the Cathedrals Cycle Route and the start of Cycling UK’s World’s Biggest Bike Ride proved inspiration for
25th May 2021
And they’re off!! Cycle cathedrals: 42 cathedrals 42 days 2 wheels Sunday sees the launch of a new kind of pilgrimage route that links every one
24th May 2021
“The county of Norfolk is steeped all over in the medieval pilgrimage tradition, testament to the magnetism and mystery of Walsingham.
19th May 2021
No need to leave your own home. 10am start! Virtual pilgrimage spans the length and breadth of Britain’s cathedrals: Parishioners from a London
10th May 2021
Are you ready? We are. It’s time to Discover Cathedrals, Discover Pilgrimage. Immersive art installations to help us reflect on a year in
03rd May 2021
An all women cycle group is putting the new Cathedrals Cycle Route to the test ahead of its official launch by cycling from Durham to Newcastle
30th April 2021
Our cathedrals are beginning to open up slowly and safely and as we move closer to May 17 and Step 3 of the Government’s roadmap, when we hope to
24th April 2021
Whatever cathedral you visit this year as we slowly and safely begin to re-open, know you can come on two wheels, four wheels and on foot with
31st March 2021
Whichever English cathedral you visit this year, you will be able to arrive by bike thanks to a unique partnership between Sustrans, Cycling UK,
01st September 2020
2020 is Year of Cathedrals Year of Pilgrimage – but don’t take our word for it … Take a look at the brilliant blog, Clara and the Cathedrals
19th August 2020
A local vicar is to make a 20-mile pilgrimage to Bury St Edmunds Cathedral to mark the 1000th year of the Abbey of St Edmund and raise money for
05th August 2020
Drum roll please … in a first for the Association of English Cathedrals we will be livestreaming the launch of Britain’s Pilgrim Places –
16th July 2020
Five of our cathedrals have made the top 60 most loved visitor attractions with York Minster seeing record numbers in 2019, according to visitor
18th June 2020
The much-anticipated St Albans pilgrimage is going online this weekend with a specially streamed service from the shrine of Britain’s first saint
17th June 2020
A unique project offering a one-day pilgrimage route to every Church of England cathedral is being reimagined and relaunched for a world slowly
01st April 2020
2020 Year of Cathedrals, Year of Pilgrimage hasn’t gone away – it‘s just gone online. To be a pilgrim….from the comfort of your own home Online
02nd March 2020
Pilgrimage: Southwark Cathedral’s Lent Art Installation Pilgrimage is Southwark Cathedral’s Lent Art Installation that traces Thomas
17th February 2020
A series of events designed to promote and celebrate pilgrimage will take place in Oxford’s Christ Church Cathedral over the next year as part of
08th February 2020
JUST IN: Pilgrim Passports Pilgrim passports are now available in every Church of England cathedral as part of the national campaign for 2020
07th February 2020
And they’re off…. Choristers from Birmingham Cathedral kick start their own ‘Year of Pilgrimage’ with a tour of performances over the border.
22nd January 2020
Coffee anyone? Year of Pilgrimage takes on new meaning at Winchester Cathedral. People are being asked to help create a giant labyrinth in the
15th January 2020
Working with the British Pilgrimage Trust and as part of the 2020 Year of Cathedrals we are very pleased to share the brilliant 1-day pilgrimage
15th January 2020
And here are the rest of the Cathedral One Day Pilgrimage routes for 2020 Year of Cathedrals. London St Paul’s, Southwark and Westminster Abbey
21st November 2019
Jonathan Carmyllie of Whalley Abbey lit a candle and said a prayer before setting off along the new pilgrimage route to Blackburn Cathedral. And
15th November 2019
However you arrive at a cathedral next year you will be able to come on foot, thanks to a collaboration between the British Pilgrimage Trust and