Gippeswyck Pagan Gathering 2025 | Magical Suffolk Celebration

📅 Saturday 11th October 2025
⏰ 10:30 AM – 5:30 PM
📍 Martlesham Community Hall, Felixstowe Road, Martlesham, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 4PB
🎟️ Entry £3, payable on the door
🚗 Free on-site parking

🕯️ Inside the Gippeswyck Pagan Gathering 2025

As the Wheel of the Year turns towards Samhain and the mist thickens over the Suffolk fields, the Gippeswyck Pagan Gathering 2025 calls witches, druids, healers, and seekers back to the hearthfire of community. On Saturday 11th October 2025, the ancient land of Gippeswyck — now modern-day Ipswich — awakens once again to the beat of drums, the whisper of chant, and the laughter of kinfolk 🌑🕯️🌿

Nestled in the warm embrace of Martlesham Community Hall, the Gathering offers a day rich with workshops, music, ceremony, and sacred craft. It is a celebration not just of Samhain’s approach, but of Suffolk’s deep-rooted connection to the old ways — a lineage stretching back to the Saxons, the Celts, and the wise folk who once walked these very lands 🏹🌾🗝️

🧙‍♀️ Voices of Wisdom and Spirit

At the Gippeswyck Pagan Gathering, community ritual and folk magic come alive…

This year’s Gathering offers a tapestry of speakers who will guide, inspire, and enchant. Suzi Edwards-Goose, the mystical Ink Witch, brings her vision of sacred art and storytelling, revealing how the unseen world can be drawn into the everyday through creativity 🎨🖋️ John Worland, historian and campaigner, breathes life into the forgotten witches of Suffolk’s grim past, reminding all who listen of the resilience and dignity of those persecuted 🕯️📖.

The air will hum with energy as Lyz LeFay leads a stirring chant workshop, inviting every voice, no matter how shy, into the sacred weaving of sound and spirit. Together, participants will create a resonance that calls to the ancestors and the living alike 🌬️🌀🎶.

The Gathering opens with a heartfelt ritual conducted by the Gippeswyck Pagan Gathering team themselves — their first time stepping into the ceremonial circle at that gathering. With offerings to the elements and invocations to the spirit of place, the day will be anchored in intention, respect, and joy 🌍🔥🌬️💧.

🎶 Dance, Drum and Delight

Throughout the day, the hall will pulse with music and movement. The celebrated Morris men of Little Egypt will bring their lively steps and clashing sticks, connecting land and tradition in every rhythmic beat 🌾🪗🎩. The evocative sounds of Morrigans Path will swirl through the air, offering songs of sovereignty, mystery, and the wild soul 🎼🧝‍♀️.

Lyz LeFay will return to the stage with her original music, her voice weaving myth and melody into every note. Dance and movement will find sacred space too, as Hara Dance invites attendees into gentle, grounding embodiment through flowing sacred gestures 🌻🧘‍♀️.

🛍️ Gippeswyck Pagan Gathering Market

Between the songs and ceremonies, visitors will wander through a vibrant Pagan market, lovingly curated and now fully booked. The market will host artisans and crafters whose wares carry the breath of the land and the spark of old magic 🧙‍♂️🕸️.

Among the stalls, seekers will find the dreamlike costumes of The Elvish Tailor, the primal rhythms of The Drum Woman, and the exquisite dark crafts of Black Moon Atelier. Handcrafted spellwork from Burning Sensations, sacred tomes from Pete Jennings, enchanted goods from Cauldron Creations and Celtic Spellbound, intricate weavings by Threadarick, and the nature-honouring pieces from Adrienne DeRoy and Mugwort and Mistletoe will tempt every wandering soul 🔮🪄🎨.

The celebrated Ink Witch Art of Suzi Edwards-Goose will also be available, capturing the unseen in ink and imagination 🖤🖋️.

🍴 Nourishment and Merriment

The Random Camels Bar will be serving throughout the day for those in need of a spirited brew 🍻🍷, while the Hullabaloo Vegan Kitchen will be offering delicious, hearty plant-based meals — lovingly prepared to feed witches, mystics, and merrymakers alike 🌱🥣✨.

🌍 A Land Steeped in Ancient Magic

The Gippeswyck Pagan Gathering’s location is no accident. Gippeswyck — the old name for Ipswich — has roots that dig deep into the soil of Saxon and pre-Saxon England. Suffolk’s coastline once bustled with trading ships from distant lands, bringing goods, gods, and new ideas. Not far from Martlesham lies Sutton Hoo, where the great ship burial of a mighty leader, possibly King Rædwald, echoes the pagan rites of passage into the otherworld ⛵🗡️🌌.

The surrounding forests and rivers have long whispered their stories to those who would listen. Here, nature and magic remain intertwined, and the Gathering rekindles this connection — not as a performance, but as a living thread 🏹🌿🌀.

The full weekend surrounding the Gippeswyck Pagan Gathering 2025 is a journey through lore, land, and tradition…

🌒 Full Weekend Itinerary

Friday 10th October – Arrival & Ancestral Connection

Visitors are encouraged to arrive on Friday afternoon and settle into the gentle embrace of Suffolk’s countryside. The Crown at Woodbridge offers old-world elegance, while Thatched Farm B&B provides rustic tranquillity, ideal for attuning to the turning season 🛏️🍂.

A twilight walk along Woodbridge’s riverbanks or a moment beneath the ancient oaks will set the spirit right. Dinner by candlelight at The Crown’s restaurant or a nearby country inn offers a perfect prelude to a magical weekend 🕯️🍷🌾.

Saturday 11th October – The Gippeswyck Pagan Gathering

From the opening ritual to the final echoes of the closing ceremony, the day belongs to the sacred. Visitors will fill their hearts with music, art, learning, and laughter. They’ll leave not just with treasures in their hands but with the memory of voices raised together and old gods smiling down ✨🌕🎶.

An evening of rest, reflection, and soft magic awaits, perhaps with a journal and a cup of tea, tucked warmly away from the autumn night 🌒📖🍵.

Sunday 12th October – Sacred Sites and Farewells

Before returning to the mundane world, a morning pilgrimage to Sutton Hoo offers the perfect closure. Walk the burial mounds, breathe the ancestral air, and leave offerings of gratitude to the ancient ones who once stood where you now stand ⛰️🕊️🌬️.

Brunch at Honey + Harvey in Woodbridge completes the weekend with warmth and comfort, a gentle return to everyday life — carrying the magic of Gippeswyck in the heart 🥐☕🌾.

🕯️ Come Weave Your Magic

Come weave your magic at the Gippeswyck Pagan Gathering — where old gods and new kin meet beneath Suffolk skies.

The Gippeswyck Pagan Gathering 2025 is a reawakening. A gathering of tribe. A rekindling of ancient fires.
In the laughter of the Morris men, the beat of the drums, and the chant of a hundred voices, something timeless stirs.
Come, bring your spirit, your song, your open hands. The land is waiting. 🍂🌕🔮

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