I have long been collecting the Macmillan Highways and Byways series, published between 1898 and 1948. Each book covers a different area of the United Kingdom, and it inspired me to compile a Catholic version that  people might use to supplement their travels around the English countryside – Highways and Byways:  Discovering Catholic England was published by Gracewing late last year. Most of the highways are well known – Canterbury, the Tower of London, Walsingham, and so on. I included many of these but took especial delight in the many byways which lie off the beaten track, sometimes just around the corner from where we live – a quirky place name, an ancient church, or a manor house hidden behind the closed gates. A few tasters follow.