St Frideswide's Way Camino Pilgrimage (Final Stage)

Get a sense of the Camino de Santiago walking the last stage of the St Frideswide's Way, 8 miles along the Thames Path from Whitchurch to Reading.



Type of walk

Sociable - make new friends while you are walking



More detail

Take in the last short stage of the St Frideswide's Way, part of a modern-day long-distance pilgrimage along the Camino Ingles (English Way) route to Santiago de Compostela, Spain. The afternoon starts at St Mary the Virgin Church in Whitchurch, where a first stamp for your pilgrim passport may be obtained. The walk then ambles beside the Thames taking The Thames Path National Trail through Purley to Reading.  It finishes at Our Lady & St Anne's Church in Caversham, where we visit the Shrine to Our Lady of Caversham and obtain a final stamp for this introductory walk to Santiago.



Bring a bottled drink and snack.  Please have an early lunch, or brunch, before we meet. Worn-in walking shoes. Toilets at the start and end and Mapledurham Lock. 



Walk length / difficulty / accessibility

13km, approx. 5 hours / Medium  / not wheelchair accessible / not family friendly



Ticket price

£3



About the walk leader

David is the volunteer development lead of the St James' Way Camino for the Confraternity of St James UK.  He has walked several Caminos and has self-published a book, 'Not Just a Long Walk' on Amazon about his experiences in 2019 on the Camino Frances.