St Morrell's Round is a circular pilgrimage of about 18 miles which is inspired by the medieval pilgrimages made to St Morrell's Chapel on the hillside near Hallaton. The pilgrimage does not claim to follow any previous route but instead visits sites where you can still see things that pilgrim travellers would have seen in the 14th Century.

Morrel who died in AD453 was Bishop of Anger in NW France. He went into self-imposed exile overseas before returning to be beatified for performing the miracle of Renatus which is shown on a mural in Angers cathedral. Some eight hundred years later the Martival family from Angers brought the cult of St Morrell to Hallaton and built a chapel dedicated to him on the mystical hillside just outside the village. This is the only church in Britain mentioning Morrell

The hillside where the Celts buried the Hallaton Treasure, and where modern day Bottle Kickers meet every Easter Monday, was visited by pilgrims for some three hundred years right up to the Reformation. The chapel was rediscovered in 2014 and work is ongoing to restore the crypt of St Michael’s Church Hallaton to re-inter the pilgrims' remains found in the Chapel. Based on isotope analysis of their skeletons we know that none of the pilgrims buried at the Chapel was born within 200 miles of Hallaton, and there is strong evidence to suggest that Hallaton was a staging point on a long distance footpath to Walsingham from the West.

You can start and finish the walk anywhere but most people start in Hallaton at St Michael's Church, Churchgate, Hallaton, Leics, LE16 8TY or get directions from google maps.

The walk can also be completed in two days with an overnight stop at Launde Abbey details of their accomodation can be found on their website.