Day 13: Tenterden to Challock
Our penultimate walking day is our longest, but at 17.5 miles that is a short longest day compared to most of our previous pilgrimages! Most of the day is fairly flat, until we cross the M20 and climb to join the North Downs Way (NDW) (which is also the Pilgrims Way) near Dunn Street. We follow the NDW as it starts to drop down into the valley of the Stour, then leave it, turning left to climb towards Challock. Before we reach the village we pause to pray at the Church of Ss Cosmas and Damian which is in a magnificent setting high on the downs, albeit surrounded by trees.
Pilgrimage Newsfeed - Day 13
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Althea approaches St Michael's Caroline Isted
St Michael's Church Tenterden John Chenery Original Tweet
St Michael's Tenterden, before the service Aidan Simons
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In St Michael's John Chenery Original Tweet
Interior of High Halden church Aidan Simons
Inside the amazing wooden tower of St Mary High Halden Aidan Simons
St Mary High Halden John Chenery Original Tweet
in a prayer stop in the church Jim asked us to sign https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/child_refugees_to_school_tech_1a/?pv=98&rc=fb the Avaaz Calais children petition. This is taken after the prayer stop. John Chenery Original Tweet
Glorious pilgrims in glorious sunshine Patrick Reeve
John and Louise Maurice Hickman
The garden of the George Inn, Bethersden John Chenery Original Tweet
and inside the pub John Chenery Original Tweet
From Ancient Church to Ancient Church through the fields - in glorious sunshine Caroline Isted
frontmarker Bridget leads us out of the George John Chenery Original Tweet
Marie leads our prayer stop in St Margaret's Bethersden John Chenery Original Tweet
Leaving St Margaret's John Chenery
shaded roads after lunch and a drinks stop on one. Francis wearing Tineke's tail today John Chenery Original Tweet
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From Ancient Church to Ancient Church through the fields - in glorious sunshine Caroline Isted
yay cakes at Hothfield! Aidan Simons Original Tweet
St Margaret's Hothfield John Chenery Original Tweet
Tea and cakes! John Chenery Original Tweet
Cake Angels of St Margret, Hothfield Caroline Isted
Don't argue with me! (Guardian of Hothfield Common) Aidan Simons
another view of Hothfield church John Chenery Original Tweet
Heather on Hothfield Common on the Greensand Way which we last encountered on day 4 John Chenery Original Tweet
Joining The Pilgrims Way! Caroline Isted
Drinks stop on the North Downs Way John Chenery Original Tweet
Jim found a tee-shirt lying in the road and carried it on a stick John Chenery Original Tweet
NDW John Chenery Original Tweet
El Sid? Maurice Hickman
hidden in the woods Ss Cosmas & Damien John Chenery Original Tweet
The end of the longest day John Chenery Original Tweet
