Month: February 2026

Community Walking Projects

Rock On!

This community walking event took place on Sunday 22 February 2026

18 adults plus a baby in a buggy and 2 dogs met at Wardie Bay on the edge of Edinburgh for a Festival of Terminalia walk. We walked along the Lower Granton and West Shore roads to Granton ‘the brick’ Beach. We made a cairn of the stones we had collected at Wardie, to mark the boundary between sea and land. Retracing our footsteps, we returned to the starting point, approaching the same landscape from the opposite direction.

We picked up stones from Wardie Bay and made a cairn of them at Granton Beach

Terminalia is a festival of walking, space, place and psychogeography on and around 23rd Feburary. Terminalia was the festival of Terminus, Roman god of boundaries and landmarks! Events have been run on this day since 2011.

Statues by Art in Architecture, near The Depot music studios, Lower Granton Road, Edinburgh

As the theme of this year’s festival was ‘Rock’ we were searching for rocks, stones and related structures. We talked about the history of the area, social and archeological, and visited the back of the Depot music studios where rock music is recorded. The islands of Inchkeith and Cramond were clear from a distance. Made of volcanic / igneous rock, sandstone, shale, coal and limestone, sufferers of syphilis were banished there to live out their lives after the Grandgore Act was passed in 1497. Inchkeith on wikipedia.

Inchkeith Island through the Granton / Wardie sea wall

We went past the site of the long-gone Granton quarry and found out more about Granton Sea Quarry further along the coast near Granton Point, which supplied the stone for making Granton Harbour. The boulders (for delaying coastal erosion) which line the Silverknowes Path outside The Pitt are beautiful at the moment with their coverings of orange and green lichen.

Granton Beach rocks, General’s Rocks (named after the English Duke of Somerset who led the Rough Wooing), and rocks exposed at low tide
Map handout made by, and copyright of, Tamsin Grainger

For upcoming walks and to find out about The Walk Club, Edinburgh, contact tamsinlgrainger@gmail.com

I am grateful to the wonderful Threadinburgh for posts such as Oxsters, Oxcares, and Oxcars, the thread about the names of the islands of the Forth.

Community Walking Projects

February First Friday Walk Prompt

Walk/What3Words///, a walk in 3 parts

Guidelines for the February 2026 First Friday Walk (FFW)
Please note that this is a distal prompt, but you can, of course, arrange to walk in a couple or a group wherever you are.

Choose a place to walk and make work.
Find out the W3W/// location for your starting place (you will probably have a few options, so choose the one you like best or are most attracted to.)*
Store those 3 words in your mind / notebook / phone.
Set your timer and start walking. Stop after 15 minutes.
Choose one of the 3 words and use it to make an intervention (it can be a photo(s), conversation, drawing, rubbing, poem, thought, installation … whatever you like). After long enough, walk for a further 15 minutes.
Choose a second word and make an intervention as before (or differently).

Repeat a third time.

Either in the open air or back at home, compose your work in whatever way makes sense.

Share with someone or on social media #walkingtheland #firstfridaywalk
The title (or subtitle of your work) will be the W3W/// and something of your choice.

What you will need

The W3W/// app or a text of some sort (poem, newspaper article etc)*
Materials of your choice for making
A timer, watch, or phone

Extra notes

*If you do not already have the W3W/// app on your phone, you can download it before you leave, from the Playstore or Applestore, look it up on the internet or on a laptop. If the whole W3W/// thing is too technology-focused for you, choose the 15th, 30th and 45th words from a text of your choice.

If you want to stay out longer, repeat with a second W3W/// address.

If you are part of another Walking the Land project, you could choose your Deep Encounters place to do this FFW, or walk at a distance with your Walking in Pairs partner (perhaps you decide in advance to swap W3W addresses, or use a mix of them).

Happy Walking!