Welcome to Walkfest 2020, the Guildford Walking Festival

Since our last blog post, the situation with Covid and the related Government guidance has evolved significantly.  You will all be aware that efforts are being made to open up businesses and the countryside whilst maintaining social distancing.

Based on our current unde...

Farnham Walking Festival – with whom we work closely – would have been due to start about now.  All the coronavirus restrictions have obviously made that impossible so they had to cancel this year’s event.  A great disappointment for all of those who put so much work i...

By the end of September, our month-long Guildford Walkfest had, incredibly, hosted almost 50 events.  And what a month it’s been.  Brilliant September sunshine for the first three weeks and then dodging the showers during the latter days – often with rain before and af...

Over the time that we have been producing blog pages to support this year’s Walkfest, we have dedicated a number of them to our sponsored walk with Guildford’s Street Angels.  Well, the day of the walk finally arrived and on Saturday we assembled at Guildford Station f...

The first three weeks of Walkfest this year have been blessed by wonderful, bright, warm and sunny weather.  Waking up on the morning of Monday 23rd, that weather seemed to be continuing – in spite of the forecast.  Walkfest had several events lined up for the day and...

Saturday 28th September is an important date in the 2019 Walkfest calendar.  Anyone arriving at Guildford Railway Station between 9.15am and 9.30am is likely to get a surprise.  Gathering there will be a “Host of Angels”. 

But these are not just any angels.  T...

Half way through Walkfest now and we’ve had some super walks.  This time I want to focus on three of the walks from the last week that have been led or hosted by Surrey Hills Society.  The Society are one of the sponsors of Walkfest – as you may have seen on the cover...

Well, that’s week one of this year’s Walkfest completed – and what a successful and varied week it’s been.  Our autumn sunshine has obviously helped but so has the good publicity by Guildford Dragon, Guildfords Tourist Information Office and the many partner organisati...

Over the first three days of Walkfest, I have joined three of the shorter walks to discover, first hand, more about Guildford and the surrounding area.  The walks – around Stoke Park, Gomshall and Worplesdon – took me to three very different parts of the Borough. 

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The 1st September was not only the first day of meteorological autumn but was also the first day of this year’s Guildford Walking Festival.  In bright sunshine, we gathered outside Guildford Spectrum to launch this month of free walks which will take us all over the Bo...