From Rea to Stour: Walking the Severn/Trent Watershed

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This year, Walkpace contributed a public walk to Terminalia Festival which celebrated the Severn/Trent watershed, one of the Midland’s most important and defining geographical features.

Walking the Watershed for Terminalia

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Our first public walk of 2024 celebrates the festival of Terminalia with a walk along a remarkable natural boundary. Join us on Feb 23!

Minimal Traffic Meander: in and out of the city with Badnote Choir

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For November's Erratic, Simon Jefferies (AKA The Badnote Choir) shows us the unthinkable: a Birmingham without cars. Join us on November 25th to assert your pedestrian privilege.

Skull Walk 4: Widdershins

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Join us this Halloween for our fourth annual walk around the Stirchley Skull. This time with a twist…

Walk Report: Wandering Rocks 2

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For the second walk in our Wandering Rocks series we visited Birmingham city centre for more glacial boulders, geological curiosities and further examples of "beached heritage". The "wandering rocks" of the title refers to the erratic boulders which travelled to Birmingham from Wales on an ice sheet 450,000 years ago. The catalyst for this walk […]

The Wandering Rocks – walk two

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For August's Erratic we'll be taking a rock for a walk. Join us on Sunday 20th for a tour of Birmingham's geological curiosities and examples of "beached heritage"

Metaphysical Treasure Hunt: a group drift in Stirchley

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Join us on 24 June for a playful drift around Stirchley inspired by The Loiterer's Resistance Movement

On Return: Seeking Solace in a City of Trauma

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Join former paramedic turned artist Rachel Henaghan on May 6 for a dawn walk through Birmingham city centre.

Layers of Landscape: a suburban stroll with Robson

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For our first public walk of 2023, Robson takes us on a journey through the topographical layers of Bournville and Northfield. Join us on Feb 26th

Photos from Winter Solstice sunrise walk

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For the final Walkspace Erratic of 2022 we visited Bordesley Henge in Birmingham to mark the Winter Solstice. Bordesley Henge is a municipal stone circle situated in Kingston Hill Park and is believed to date back to the 1990s. Six standing stones form a ring on top of a mound, up which a spiral footpath […]