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Celebrate Bath's unique landscape by taking a walk! 

The programme for the festival includes more than 50 events for families, groups and solo walkers, the majority of which are free.

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.