TerraCirca Dorset Walks: 13th and 26th September, 3rd October

Host. Gather. Connect. Share.

TerraCirca offers welcoming events across Dorset, rooted in trust, care, love, and a shared sense of humanity.

It’s a space where people from all backgrounds and viewpoints can come together, where simple, shared moments act as a tonic for modern life.

We are sharing walks, simple, shared journeys through Dorset’s landscapes. We connect, walk, talk, and share, and along the way rekindle our connection to community, history, and the natural world. It’s an invitation to be present: to lace up your walking shoes and experience the joy of the land, and the people who call it home.

Anyone can host. Whether it’s a walk, a conversation, sharing stories, or a local project, we make it easy to bring people together. We take care of the admin so you can focus on creating meaningful experiences.

Step away from screens and the noise of the news. Reconnect with place, with people, and with yourself.

Everyone is welcome, whoever you are. Join a walk, or host one in a place you love. Bring a story, a conversation, biscuits, or simply yourself.

September & October Walks

Evening walks, midweek, and picnic:

Join Sarah on Sunday 13th September for this special walk which follows in the footsteps of St Wite, Dorset’s very own patron saint.

St Wite, a healer, protector and defender – a saxon saint who is venerated in the church at Whitchurch Canonicorum. The church is also referred to as The Cathedral of the Vale. She was murdered by vikings and sainted by Alfred the Great. During the medieval period her relics were one of the most visited pilgrimage sites in England. Pilgrimages have taken place here for 1000 years. The church is the only parish church housing an intact shrine. Her remains survived Henry VIII’s dissolution and Cromwell’s campaigns!

The walk culminates in ascending the Jurassic Coast’s highest peak!

Join Sarah for this walk imbued with history and folklore.

Discover Dorset’s other Thomas Hardy, Flag Captain to Admiral Lord Nelson, the monument is designed to look like a spyglass as Hardy would have used on board HMS Victory. We will traverse an ancient landscape shaped by the last ice age where bolders are scattered through the valley.

Please meet in front of Hardy Monument (///version.frown.kilowatt) at 11am.

There are several car parks / laybys to park in on the road.

We’ll take a picnic back at Hardy Monument at the end of our walk, so please bring your lunch!

Join Alex & Claire at 10am on Saturday, October 3rd for a walk that takes in drama, law, aristocracy, and unsurprisingly, a fair bit of scandal.

This beautiful walk touches the River Allen its name, in Celtic etymology, means “pure, healthy water.”

We will park in the village of Witchampton and gather outside the Church of St Mary, St Cuthburga & All Saints.

From there we’ll take in the quintessential village of Witchampton, the beech avenue of the Crichel Estate, and bridges over the Allen.

Please bring water and lunch. Dogs on leads in places.

6 easy miles followed if we wish by refreshments at the Horton Inn Pub.

MORE DETAILS & REGISTER (FREE) HERE: Dorset Walks

Feel free to share the eventbrite page if you know others who might like to join.

TerraCirca began as a simple idea: a space to take walks, bring people together, connect, and host community conversations, sharing local stories and projects that matter to us.

It’s evolving into an open space where anyone in the community can host. The intention is to create an organisation that’s truly in service for our community and makes it consistently easy for any of us to host events like this. 

In the first instance, if you would like to host a walk, I can help you add it, bringing a rhythm of regular walking gatherings in the places we love. 

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