St Mark’s Way, the northern ‘arm’ of the 2025 National Jubilee Walking Pilgrimage of Hope, starts at Leeds Cathedral on Saturday 6 September – and its first two days pass through our Diocese!

There’s still time for Diocese of Leeds Day Pilgrims to sign up to walk all or any part of those first two days.

Full details about being a Day Pilgrim via https://www.pilgrimways.org.uk/become-a-pilgrim-for-a-day.

ALL will be welcome at the 8am Pilgrims’ Mass at Leeds Cathedral on Saturday 6 September 2025. At 9am, those pilgrims who have registered to walk will set off from the Cathedral, bound for St Austin’s Catholic Church in Wakefield, about 16 miles away …

… BUT … there’s no need to walk the whole day and the full mileage, as there are now morning and afternoon joining/leaving points which halve the distance …!

DAY 1 = Saturday 6 September 2025
ALL welcome to join the 8am Pilgrims’ Mass at Leeds Cathedral!
MORNING – 8 miles: 9am – walkers set off from the Cathedral (LS2 8BE), and follow the Transpennine Trail (TPT) SE beside the Aire & Calder Navigation to Woodlesford Railway Station (LS26 8GS)
AND/OR
AFTERNOON – 8 miles: 1pm – walking from Woodlesford Railway Station (LS26 8GS), the path veers SW to continue on the TPT along a disused railway line and then the River Calder to St Austin’s Catholic Church, Wentworth Terrace, Wakefield (WF1 3QN)

If YOU would like to walk as a ‘Diocese of Leeds Day Pilgrim’ on ANY part of this National Pilgrimage through our Diocese on Day 1 and into Hallam Diocese on Day 2, please register as soon as possible, via this link!

Visit YouTube for a video with more information about the National Jubilee Walking Pilgrimage of Hope!