Pilgrim Soul

Walking the
Ancient Way

Music, memoir, sacred landscape, and the ongoing journey. A gathering place for those drawn to the path less followed.

A life made visible

This is not a website about a book. It is a place to follow one life as it moves through the landscape — on foot, by stilt, and now by campervan — searching out the ancient and the enduring in the hills and stones of Britain.


Music made on the road. Words gathered from the path. A door left open for fellow travellers.

Winter tree on the ancient way

The work and the way

"The land holds memory. You only have to walk slowly enough to hear it."

The Dispatch

Read the latest

Words sent from wherever the road has led — a stone circle in Cornwall, a pub in the Marches, a lay-by somewhere on Dartmoor with rain on the windscreen and the hills just visible through the mist.

Not a newsletter. A dispatch. The difference matters. A newsletter is scheduled. A dispatch arrives when something worth saying has happened.