Britain's Sacred Places

Britain's Sacred Places: a guide to ancient and modern sites that stir the soul - travel guide covering places of religious and secular pilgrimage in England, Wales and Scotland, from Westminster Abbey to Iona, Twickenham stadium to Orkney, including Buddhist temples, Stonehenge and Princess Diana's statue.

INTRODUCTION

How to use this book

1 LONDON

Westminster Abbey, Diana, Princess of Wales, Marc Bolan's Rock Shrine,

Twickenham Stadium, Bevis Marks Synagogue, Highgate Cemetery,

London Central Mosque, Shri Swaminarayan Mandir

2 SOUTHERN ENGLAND

Marazion & St Michael's Mount, Land's End Peninsula, Walking The Saints'

Way, Tintagel, St Nectan's Glen, The Cerne Abbas Giant, Glastonbury,

Stanton Drew Stone Circle, Bath Spa, The Avebury complex, Stonehenge,

Winchester, The Long Man of Wilmington, Canterbury

3 CENTRAL & EASTERN ENGLAND

Bradwell-on-Sea, Bhaktivedanta Manor, Amaravati Buddhist

Monastery, Uffington White Horse, Rollright Stones, Little Gidding,

Ely, Walsingham, Leicester's Hindu, Sikh & Jain temples, Lincoln,

Creswell Crags

4 WALES

Tintern Abbey, Llanthony Priory, Goat's Hole Cave, Caldey Island,

St David's, Bardsey Island (Ynys Enlli), Anglesey (Ynys Mon),

Holywell

5 NORTHERN ENGLAND

Chester, York, The medieval monasteries of North Yorkshire, Cumbria's

stone circles, Durham, Jarrow, Lindisfarne (Holy Island), The Farne

Islands: Inner Farne

6 SCOTLAND

Whithorn, Samye Ling Tibetan Buddhist Monastery, The border abbeys,

St Mungo & Glasgow Cathedral, St Andrews, Iona, Callanish & the

Western Isles, Orkney

APPENDIX

A guide to the sacred sites in this book, Sacred tours

INDEX