Category Archives: Perambulations

First Friday Walk | April | Walking together, alone | Scripted Walk.

A 0.5 km circle drawn around home, walked around as far as possible with stops at most northerly point, the East, the south, West & back to north. Each stop had a prompt from Walking the Land The walk was tracked by ViewRanger and at each stop I checked What3Words for my location. Their scriptContinue reading “First Friday Walk | April | Walking together, alone | Scripted Walk.”

lunching.jeep.erupts

Groundworks Landlinks project – a walk guided by a script. A group of artists taking simultaneous but geographically separated walks. At each instructed stop pictures were taken without attachment to particular subjects and in response to certain prompt words. recording the routes on ViewRanger and noting the stopping places using what3words. The prompt word hereContinue reading “lunching.jeep.erupts”

#Terminalia 23rd February

I was really interested when Kel Portman of Walking the Land posted that he wanted people to respond to the Roman day of Terminalia. Taking a walk along an invisible boundary. I had looked into Terminalia and its more recent version ‘beating the bounds’ but had never done anything with it. My excitement was swiftlyContinue reading “#Terminalia 23rd February”

Pinning & Fulling the Valley #GhostMills

August is proving a busy month – preparations for my contribution to Walking the Land‘s #GhostMills exhibition at SVA for the Wool & Water Festival I became interested in pin-making. Four former cloth mills in the Nailsworth valley became pin-making mills in the later nineteenth century: Lightpill, Frogmarsh, Pitts & Freames (these last two onContinue reading “Pinning & Fulling the Valley #GhostMills”

Water, Cloth & Pins

This weeks reading, besides the tremendous new Robert MacFarlane book, is preparation for writing a proposal for ‘Ghost Mills’, a Walking the Land exhibition for the Wool & Water Festival in September. Did you know that teasels (teazles, teazels) used for knapping the woven cloth? I didn’t but hoping that I can still get atContinue reading “Water, Cloth & Pins”

Perambulations – St. Augustine’s Oak & Well

During my researches about the village I live in, with it’s derelict airfield and Tudor manor house, I became intrigued by Oak Road. This road used to run from the village out to the Castle Eaton road and was severed by a World War II airfield in 1943. The airfield was in use from 1943Continue reading “Perambulations – St. Augustine’s Oak & Well”