Walks from Cholsey

Thames riverside path, gently rolling Oxfordshire countryside, open fields and attractive villages.

Warnings: Long, exposed walk.

Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).

Stile-free mix of gentle hills, open views and a Thames Path riverside stretch through Moulsford to Goring.

The River Thames: England's best-known river, whose towpath (the Thames Path National Trail) carries long stretches of nearly every walk in this set.

Time: 2h30–5h30

Lunch: The Beetle & Wedge at Moulsford; the Swan Hotel at Streatley.

Warnings: One very steep, awkward footbridge near the lock; some boggy sections.

Walk details: Round Reading Walk.

Gentle Oxfordshire countryside, wide grassy horse training gallops, Ridgeway stretch on Berkshire Downs and riverside walk along the Thames.

Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).

Level, stile-free fields and tracks past the Saxon church where Agatha Christie is buried, the Aston villages and a heritage railway.

Agatha Christie's Grave: the grave of the crime novelist, beside the north wall of St Mary's churchyard under her married name Mallowan.

Time: 2h30–4h30

Lunch: The Chequers pub at Aston Tirrold.

Walk details: Round Reading Walk.