Walks you can reach from Long Buckby by train
Northamptonshire · East Midlands
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Rugby Circular (Warwickshire)
15 minutes direct from Long Buckby.
Canal towpath, riverside path and village lanes.
Time: 3h (1h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)
Walk details: Heart Rail Trails (PDF).
Coventry Circular (Warwickshire)
30 minutes direct from Long Buckby.
City streets, canal basin and historic centre.
Time: 3h (1h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)
Walk details: Heart Rail Trails (PDF).
Tile Hill Circular (Warwickshire)
30 minutes direct from Long Buckby.
Woodland paths and suburban footways through nature reserve.
Time: 3h30 (2h walking, 1h30 lunch)
Walk details: Heart Rail Trails (PDF).
Berkswell Circular (Warwickshire)
30 minutes direct from Long Buckby.
Countryside and farmland tracks, village lanes.
Time: 3h (1h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)
Walk details: Heart Rail Trails (PDF).
Hampton-in-Arden Circular (Warwickshire)
45 minutes direct from Long Buckby.
Tarmac village lanes, river crossing and nature reserve paths.
Time: 3h (1h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)
Walk details: Heart Rail Trails (PDF).
Coventry to Berkswell (Warwickshire)
30 minutes direct from Long Buckby.
Picturesque village. Urban, suburban and then rural. Walk traverses Coventry's historic common land including Hearsall Common and Tilehill Wood, medieval survivals preserved in the 1920s, before reaching Berkswell in the Meridian Gap.
Time: 4h (2h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)
Warnings: A third urban. Muddy sections possible.
Walk details: Walk Midlands (tips, photos and local insights).
Canley to Coventry (Warwickshire)
30 minutes direct from Long Buckby.
Nature reserve, parkland and suburban green corridor.
Time: 3h (1h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)
Walk details: Heart Rail Trails (PDF).
Berkswell to Solihull (Warwickshire)
30 minutes direct from Long Buckby.
Surprisingly expansive landscape. Rural and suburban with boardwalks, fields, woodland, canal towpath and residential streets. Walk crosses the Meridian Gap from Berkswell to Solihull, West Midlands' largest town, functioning as an affluent dormitory suburb of Birmingham.
Time: 4h30 (3h walking, 1h30 lunch)
Warnings: Follows a busy road for a sixth of the walk. Muddy woodland path; pavement peters out near Hampton-in-Arden with tight bends.
Walk details: Walk Midlands (tips, photos and local insights).
Wellingborough to Northampton (Northamptonshire)
15 minutes direct from Long Buckby.
Riverside paths along the Nene, meadows, quarry lakes, arable fields, villages, urban riverside, nature reserve and raised flood embankments.
Time: 7h30 (6h walking, 1h30 lunch)
Warnings: Prone to flooding.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Market Harborough to Northampton (Leicestershire)
15 minutes direct from Long Buckby.
Rolling hills of the south east Midlands. Brampton Valley Way: former railway opened 1859, closed 1981, converted to multipurpose path in 1993; one of the longest ex-trackbed paths in the UK; runs through former ironstone quarrying area.
Time: 10h (7h30 walking, 1h30 lunch, 1h break)
Warnings: Two unlit tunnels (Oxendon Tunnel and Kelmarsh Tunnel).
Walk details: Walk Midlands (tips, photos and local insights).
Wolverton to Northampton (Buckinghamshire)
15 minutes direct from Long Buckby.
Fields, meadows, riverside cycle paths, medieval hunting forest, parkland, university campus and riverside town approach.
Time: 9h (7h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).