THE annual and traditional Walk of Witness on Good Friday brought together clergy and members of Liphook’s Anglican, Catholic and Methodist churches, ahead of the Easter weekend.

Held in brilliant spring sunshine, participants gathered at the Methodist Church, in London Road, for morning prayers, before setting off on their hour-long walk around the village via The Anchor pub on The Square, past Sainsbury’s supermarket in Midhurst Road, and on to Liphook station, finishing at the Church Centre in Portsmouth Road.

Reverend Valentine Inglis-Jones, who arrived as parish priest five years earlier on Palm Sunday, has been taking part in the event every year, meeting and speaking to parishioners along the route, while re-enacting Jesus’ final journey walking through the streets of Jerusalem to Golgotha before his crucifixion.

Rev Inglis-Jones said: “It was great to start with prayers at the Methodist Church in the morning, where all churches get together to celebrate this very important day in the Christian calendar.”

Earlier that morning, another cross had been planted outside St Mary’s Church in Bramshott and passages were read from the Bible.