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Street Wisdom is the brainchild of David Pearl, an innovator in business, the arts and social change. Having spent years exploring how our urban environment can deliver fresh insight, in 2013 he set up the first Street Wisdom event in Covent Garden, London. Since then, the movement has grown to over 87 countries and counting, led by volunteers sharing the power of Street Wisdom free of charge through communities across the globe. We’re on a mission to bring inspiration to every street on the planet!

Every year we celebrate Street Wisdom by wandering together on one day across the globe, we call it The World Wide Wander – an international coalition of the creative, curious and courageously kind-hearted.

It’s a day to imagine better futures for us, our communities and our planet. Together.

You can join us at an in-person Walkshop or one of our online sessions running throughout the day.

Come and join our festival of future seekers!

lonning, lonnin

Cumbrian dialect term for ‘lane’ – but a quite specific lane. Lonnings are usually about half a mile long, low level and often with a farm at the end. Many have specific names known only to the local villagers. Hence, Bluebottle Lonning, Lovers Lonning, Fat Lonning, Thin Lonning, Squeezy Gut Lonning or Dynamite Lonning. In the north-east the spelling is lonnin and seems to refer more to an alley than a country lane. The Scottish equivalent is ‘loan’.

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