{"id":35898,"date":"2026-09-14T18:13:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T17:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=35898"},"modified":"2026-09-14T18:13:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T17:13:56","slug":"pilgrims-passing-through-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=35898","title":{"rendered":"Pilgrims passing through Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026091401.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nA notice outside St Nicolas\u2019 Church welcomes pilgrims walking <a href=\"http:\/\/St Frideswide\u2019s Way\">St Frideswide\u2019s Way<\/a> and the Camino Ingl\u00e9s, with a stamp available inside the church to record their visit.<\/p>\n<p>St Frideswide\u2019s Way is a 40-mile pilgrimage route from Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford to Reading Abbey. Launched in 2024, it follows the Thames Path through Abingdon, Dorchester-on-Thames, Wallingford and Pangbourne.<\/p>\n<p>As Abingdon is one of the stops along the route, pilgrims can visit the former Abbey grounds and the town&#8217;s historic churches.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026091402.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nSt Helen\u2019s Church is often open, and its pilgrimage stamp was available today.<\/p>\n<p>From Reading, the pilgrim route connects with the St James\u2019 Way to Southampton, forming part of the wider Camino de Santiago, the network of pilgrimage routes leading to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, where St James is honoured.<\/p>\n<p>So the little sign at St Nicolas\u2019 and the stamp available at St Helen\u2019s are part of a much bigger pilgrimage network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A notice outside St Nicolas\u2019 Church welcomes pilgrims walking St Frideswide\u2019s Way and the Camino Ingl\u00e9s, with a stamp available inside the church to record their visit. St Frideswide\u2019s Way is a 40-mile pilgrimage route from Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford to Reading Abbey. Launched in 2024, it follows the Thames Path through Abingdon, Dorchester-on-Thames, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-river-thames","category-walk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}