Are you a pilgrim or a keen local walker? Are you familiar with sections of the Viking Way and/or the Queen Eleanor Crosses Way?  

Friends of Finchale Camino in County Durham have been working over a number of years to develop the Camino Inglés pilgrimage route from Finchale Priory to join with the St James Way at Reading. The route, which starts near Durham City goes from the Priory to Durham Cathedral and onwards through Bishop Auckland, Richmond, Ripon and York. In August 2024 Friends of Finchale Camino featured in the BBC programme Songs of Praise. You can find out more about them by following the link  https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002268d (As well as the whole programme there is also a small section solely about Godric, Finchale Priory and the Camino available there.) We also have a Facebook Page called The Finchale Camino Ingles, Durham, a pilgrimage way

The Finchale Camino group now has a route mapped out as far as the Humber Bridge and hope to continue to develop the route through Lincolnshire, making use of the Viking Way and the established, if a little neglected, Queen Eleanor Crosses Way.  To enable them to do this the group is looking for enthusiastic local people who might check sections of the proposed route to assess ease, suitability and to help seek permissions to post signs along the route, to attach those signs and to ensure that a trail route is developed that is safe, clear and unambiguous. Having people with ‘boots on the ground’ locally is a great help in assessing that sections of a route are workable and walkable!

If you think you might be able to help and would like to find out more please contact Friends of Finchale Camino at thefinchalecamino@gmail.com