A woman born in Ross-on-Wye spent three months walking around Wales in a bid to visit and celebrate some of the country’s holiest sites.

In 2015 Anne Hayward spent three months as a pilgrim, travelling on foot to visit some of Wales’ holiest sites, and carrying everything she needed to camp along the route.

Her main objectives were four ancient places of pilgrimage – Holywell, Bardsey Island, St David’s and Llantwit Major – but she also visited numerous churches and other places of interest along the way.

Her reflections, insights and experiences have been brought together in her newly published book, A Pilgrimage Around Wales.

Anne Hayward (neé Backhouse) read History at Oxford University and went on to become a secondary school teacher. Over the last few years she has walked thousands of miles to places of pilgrimage in Wales, Ireland, Brittany and England.

She is a Reader in the Church in Wales and is involved as a licensed Lay Minister in her local church and the wider area.

In A Pilgrimage Around Wales she gives some of the history of those ancient places of pilgrimage and reflects on the spiritual experience of being a modern-day pilgrim.