Nick Mayhew-Smith

Nick Mayhew-Smith is a researcher and travel writer who began his career writing for the Financial Times. His new book Landscape Liturgies is the latest in a series of projects celebrating outdoor spirituality of every kind, books and media work that have reached a mainstream audience. He has spent 15 summers visiting all corners of Britain to research the country’s sacred landscapes, producing four books, a BBC television series called Pagans & Pilgrims and a PhD thesis along the way. His best-selling guide Britain’s Holiest Places (2011) has helped to inform his subsequent title Britain's Pilgrim Places (2020), while his PhD thesis on Celtic nature spirituality was shaped into The Naked Hermit (2019). He is an honorary research fellow at Roehampton University, where he works with the Susanna Wesley Foundation on a range of environment and theology projects, most significant of which is Landscape Liturgies (autumn 2021)