Bathscape Walking Festival

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Celebrate Bath's unique landscape by taking a walk! 

Join in a series of free guided walks in the countryside around Bath. There are sensory walks, nature explorations, history tours and an immersive photography 'walkshop', as well as some favourite hikes in the hills.

Highlights include:

• 7 September - 6-mile walk through the Hidden Hamlets of the Woolley Valley
• 7 September - accessible sensory exploration of Henrietta Park
• 10 September - 10k trek along the scenic Bath River Line from Newbridge Park to Stambridge in Batheaston
• 12 September - bat walk in Kensington Meadows
• 13 September - 5.5-mile walk following the Somerset Canal from Paulton basin to Dunkerton
• 20 September - bat walk in Weston
• 20 September - 3-hour immersive experience with local artist Karen Woodfield from Odd Down
• 21 September - 20-mile Circuit of Bath Walk for Julian House (a shuttle bus runs between checkpoints for people who don’t want to walk the full distance).
• 27 September - five-mile walk around historic sites of central Bath led by Alison Wherry-Alimo wholly in British Sign Language

To celebrate the 80-year anniversary of Bath’s twinning with the Dutch city of Alkmaar, the twinning association is joining the National Trust to lead a . There will be a picnic stop during the four and a half hour walk, which takes place on 11 September.

The landscape surrounding Bath was a key location for the development of the Picturesque movement in the late 18^th and early 19^th century and Dr Amy Frost leads a walk revealing how Jane Austen and William Beckford explored the ideas in fiction and reality on 6 and 12 September.

Walkers are also welcome to explore the Forest of Imagination at Entry Hill (23 September - 5 October), which sees a former golf course covered with imaginative, nature-based installations.

Free walks, except where noted. There are also some sponsored walks and events where you're encouraged to raise funds for local charities.