28/07/2025

Hollow Brook Waterfall

Round a corner, where the path squeezes past rock, is a waterfall which can be magnificent following rain and can be cooling when hot. This is Hollow Brook.

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27/05/2025

The Little Dart River

The Little Dart Way is, in a sense, a pilgrimage in search of two rivers. The first is the wonderful Little Dart River, which rises on Rackenford Moor and winds ...

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17/02/2023

Exeter

Exeter is a small yet bustling city, with plenty of cafes and restaurants to refresh after a long day of pilgrimage. Exeter was recently announced as the greenest urban centre ...

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13/02/2023

Melanesian Chapel (Ottery St Mary)

Go to the side chapel on the South East end of the church – St Stephen’s Chapel. There you will see a frontal inspired by the connection with Patteson and ...

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13/02/2023

Model Melanesian canoe

The model of a traditional Melanesian canoe (brought back from the Solomon Islands). Often in their worship today, the bible is brought into the church on such a canoe (scaled ...

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13/02/2023

Bust of Bishop Patteson

This rather stern bust of Patteson use to live in Lambeth Palace, but now has come back to his home church to cast its gaze on pilgrims and visitors and ...

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13/02/2023

Patteson’s Cross

Patteson’s murder on Nukapu with two of his colleagues was thought to be a revenge attack, after five young men from the island were kidnapped by ā€˜Blackbirders’, slavers recruiting ...

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