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Britain's Sacred Places

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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.

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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

About the author










Born and raised in Portugal, Martin Symington paid yearly visits to his grandparents in Leicester in the UK. To return to this industrial city at the heart of Middle England years later, and find it pulsing with Hindu, Sikh and Jain temples was one inspiration for Britain's Sacred Places. Other seeds were sown when he followed in the footsteps of millions of medieval pilgrims across the salty sea cliffs of north Wales to drink miraculously clear, sweet water from a holy rock pool below the high tide mark; and when he first observed the remarkable similarities between the faith displayed at religious shrines and the ardent devotion shown by followers at the tomb of Karl Marx. Realising a sense of the sacred in 21st-century Britain takes manifold forms and is to be found in unlikely places, he set off on a quest which took him from Orkney to the southwest tip of Cornwall; and from the wilds of west Wales to the expanses of East Anglia. Time and again, he was astonished by what he discovered.

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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.

Foreword

. A unique title, first published in 2011 as Sacred Britain; now revised and represented as part of Bradt's award-winning series of Slow guides.
. A travel guide to places of both religious and secular pilgrimage in England, Wales and Scotland
. Includes everywhere from iconic sites such as Westminster Abbey and Stonehenge, to Buddhist temples, celebrity homes and sites associated with Princess Diana.

About Bradt Travel Guides
. Founded in 1974, Bradt is now the largest independent guidebook publisher in the UK with over 200 titles in print
. Serial winner of the Gold award for Best Guidebook Series in the Wanderlust Reader Travel Awards
. Bradt guides are written by authors who really know their destinations. Many are resident there, or have been visiting regularly over a number of years
. Each new Bradt guide is backed by a dedicated press and social media campaign

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'A fascinating take on travel in the British Isles'
Sandi Toksvig, author and TV and radio presenter

'A wonderful, timely guide'
BBC Countryfile Magazine

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