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Inspiring you to Walk in Gorge-ous Surroundings
Our main event is our nine day annual Walking Festival which always starts on the first Saturday of the May Day Bank Holiday. In 2025, we celebrated 20 years of walking in the Gorge. Check out our Festival Stories to read the 20th Anniversary Festival blog and see what went on. ​
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Our 2026 festival programme will preview on 14th February with bookings opening on Sunday 1st March.
Latest News
18/07/25 Unfortunately with the recent changes within the Committee and the loss of three Committee Members in the last two years, we are unable to put on our Autumn Festival in September, as we refocus on how we can work together with reduced capacity. However, we are pleased to support the following festivals taking place within Shropshire:
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Wellington Walking Festival from 8th to 14th September 2025
Choose from 34 walks from the pdf programme and you can book following this link
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Shropshire Way Festival from 13th to 21st September 2025
Bookings not yet open, so keep an eye out on their website via this link​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
02/07/25 Our AGM took place on Wednesday 2nd July. Unfortunately, this was to be Jane Warman's last festival as our chair and she also stepped down from the Committee. We thank Jane for her leadership and we are pleased that she will continue to support the Festival going forward. Lynn Turner, our current secretary took up the role of Chair at the AGM. Committee members are currently planning how we can work together differently to deliver future Festivals. We can appoint two new Committee members during the year, so if anyone wishes to join the committee, please contact info@ironbridgewalking.co.uk to express an interest.
12/05/25 Our 2025 Festival Summary
On behalf of the Committee, Walk Leaders and Co-leaders, we would like to send a huge thank you to you all for joining us on our 20th Anniversary Festival. It was great to meet so many new faces and to see so many familiar faces too!
We welcomed over 420 of you to the Gorge across the festival and together with our walk leaders and co-leaders, we walked nearly 9,000 miles – the distance from London to Perth, Australia!
For people thinking of walking with us for the first time in 2026, our 2025 Programme is posted if you want to have an idea of what our Festival is like.
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