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🗓️ 23 July 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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The Whithorn Way follows an ancient pilgrim route from Glasgow to Whithorn in Dumfries and Galloway. In this episode, Mark and Rachel begin at Crossraguel Abbey at Maybole, once a significant stopping off point for pilgrims. Then it's off to the once very popular holiday destination of Girvan to learn about a new community led tourism initiative. And they are given the grand tour of the town ending at the jail.
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0:00.0 | I'm Mariana Spring, the BBC's social media investigations correspondent. |
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0:13.0 | It would mean the world to me if I could make it that she wasn't just another in the long line of people that die in this way. |
0:19.0 | How does this reflect the rise of health conspiracy theories on social media and beyond? |
0:24.8 | The new series of Mariana in Conspiracy Land. Listen on BBC Sounds. |
0:31.1 | This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland. |
0:40.5 | Let permission to speak be rarely given, even to the perfect disciples, even though their |
0:46.7 | words be good and holy, buffoonery. We utterly condemn in every place. |
0:53.0 | So I'm not sure how well our havering would have gone down at Cross Regal Abbey in medieval |
0:59.8 | times we can only imagine. |
1:01.5 | Indeed. Welcome to episode five of our Huithorn Way series in which we're following the |
1:05.9 | route of the old pilgrim trail from Glasgow Cathedral to Whethorn. I'm Mark Stephen. |
1:10.0 | And I'm Rachel Stewart. In episode four, we left you on the beach at air. After hugging the coast |
1:15.4 | for a bit longer, the route then heads inland towards Mabel. Which is where Cross Regal Abbey sits. |
1:21.8 | Now, this was once a very, very significant stopping off place for pilgrims. And now it's sadly |
1:27.0 | ruthless. |
1:32.5 | There's a pied wagtail just sitting on the top of the wall at the moment doing that tail-flicking thing that they do. |
1:37.2 | We're standing just at the back of the ruins of Cross Regal Abbey |
1:41.5 | and it's pretty impressive. |
1:43.6 | It's absolutely huge actually |
1:45.0 | There's been a huge amount here |
1:46.9 | But it's now in a pretty |
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