The Institute for Pilgrimage Studies at the College of William & Mary in Virginia was created to facilitate the study of pilgrimage through two primary mechanisms.
First, the Institute provides support for the international Consortium on Pilgrimage studies. The Institute supports the Consortium by:
Map of pilgrimage in Britain and Ireland.
Website of the British Province of Carmelite Friars. Carmel is a worldwide Christian religious family that first came to Britain in 1242, and across Britain there are over forty communities of friars, religious sisters and lay Carmelites in England, Scotland and Wales.
Whithorn Priory, in Scotland, is associated with St Ninian, who died around 431 and was buried in his church on the hilltop at Whithorn. Pilgrims came to visit the shrine of the saint until the Reformation in 1560. The traditional processions on Saint Ninian's Day were restored in the 19th century. The Catholic Diocese of Galloway holds a pilgrimage to Saint Ninian's Cave on the last Sunday in August.
The following link supplies a list of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography's index of lives of saints. This is a subscription site.