Walks you can reach from Ashfield by train

A pleasant start out of Milngavie through countryside around the Rangers Training Centre and crossing some large main roads.

Warnings: Crosses some large main roads; take care.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

A short, simple route through housing estates on the northern edge of Glasgow and with a short muddy section after wet weather and small patches of woodland. An easy alternative avoids the muddy section via Duncryne Place and Brackenbrae Road.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

One of my favourite routes so far; an interesting and attractive route; incredible how lovely the route is; so many great scenes of natural and man-made beauty. A pleasant, mostly leafy and largely accessible walk along the Forth and Clyde Canal and the Kelvin Walkway, following the river on good, shaded, mostly paved paths through parks and Glasgow's more attractive districts and with only one road crossing. A little steep in Kelvingrove Park with a few cobbles onto Elderslie Street. Follows the Forth and Clyde Canal and the Kelvin Walkway, passing through Kelvingrove Park and Glasgow Botanic Gardens (including the arboretum). Good for wildlife watching; dipper, grey wagtail and kingfisher have been seen. Note the navigation switchback at the Kelvin Aqueduct where the walkway meets the canal.

1 lunch spot: the Inn Deep

Warnings: Long stretches of the riverside route are unlit, so it can feel lonely, especially in the evenings. Botanic Gardens and some parks are gated and close around dusk, so it is not a 24-hour route.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

A fully accessible, step-free, off-road route along the good towpath of the Forth and Clyde Canal, over the Kelvin aqueduct and past the Maryhill locks and with not-too-steep inclines and good paving. Two short road sections near the end. A short detour reaches the viewing platform in Stockingfield Park; Gilshochill station has stairs only.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

delightful. Residential pavements give way to peaceful, sculpture-dotted woodland and leafy parkland and with a hill or two near Bearsden. So much green cover it is easy to forget you are in suburbia. Kelvindale connects well to other walks, especially via the canal; nearby Anniesland has fuller facilities and more frequent trains. Extensive woodland.

Lunch: No refreshments along the way; plenty at Bearsden.

Warnings: The route crosses the busy A739 dual carriageway where there is no crossing at the mapped point (a pedestrian crossing lies about 50-100m south). The short final section along Dalsholm Road has no pavement and is busy. Some steps and steep hills.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

An easy, mostly flat urban walk along busy main roads through Maryhill and housing estates and with a stretch beside the Forth and Clyde Canal towpath. Sections of the canal towpath at Maryhill have been subject to closures for upgrade works; check before relying on it.

Warnings: Crosses beneath the M80 and follows several busy main roads.

Walk details: Slow Ways.