For anyone thinking of having a holiday somewhere in England I have only one message to impart: take this book with you. Inspired by the “Highways and Byways” series of the long-distant past, Fr Nicholas Schofield has revisited his columns for the Catholic Times and turned them into a veritable English Baedeker for the traveller, holidaymaker or pilgrim.
By his own admission Fr Schofield has not produced an exhaustive list of religious sites that might be of interest to Catholics – there would be far too many for a single book. Instead he has produced a work that he suggests should be “dipped into rather than read cover to cover”. I did exactly that on a family holiday to the West Country earlier this year, in the car with my husband and two spaniels. We were on our way to join a set of grandchildren and their parents in Cornwall, and Fr Schofield’s book made the breaks in our journey much easier to choose.
