The Clarendon Way runs from the River Avon close to Salisbury Cathedral in Wiltshire to the River Itchen near Winchester Cathedral in Hampshire. It is 26 miles and runs through ancient Wessex, mainly along downland and through woods.
The Herald’s chairman, his milliner wife and myself assembled by pre-arrangement at the west front of Salisbury’s 13th-century cathedral on a Saturday morning last September. The Wiltshire weather was overcast with a hint of rain. In distant Naples, the blood of St Januarius was doubtless liquifying in the cathedral there. We were greeted by Anna Macham, the Canon Precentor, who kindly gave us a tour. Masks were worn.
