Walks from Mortimer
Berkshire · South East England
MapSet out on beautiful walks directly from Mortimer Station.
Alternatively, view walks you can reach directly from Mortimer by train.
Mortimer to Bramley
Highly recommended: Little known but quietly wonderful. Beautiful rather than spectacular, in a humble village pathways sort of manner. Mostly secluded.
Ruins of Calleva Atrebatum: once a thriving Romano-British city that survived into the Saxon period. Now ghostly ruins. Includes an evocative full circuit of city walls, and what's left of a 7,000-capacity gladiatorial arena (1h15 in).
St Mary the Virgin Church: charming medieval church on the site of a Roman temple (2h15 in).
1 lunch spot: the Calleva Arms (1h45 in; excellent)
1 end-of-walk reward: the Bramley Inn
Adapted from: The Rough Guide to Walks in London & the South East (3rd edition).
Similar walk: Reading to Basingstoke Community Rail Partnership.
Mortimer Circular via Ruins of Calleva Atrebatum
Long, mostly flat circular: the Calleva Atrebatum Roman amphitheatre and walls, Pamber Forest Reserve and farmland around Mortimer, Silchester and Bramley.
Ruins of Calleva Atrebatum: once a thriving Romano-British city that survived into the Saxon period. Now ghostly ruins. Includes an evocative full circuit of city walls, and what's left of a 7,000-capacity gladiatorial arena.
Calleva Atrebatum: The remains of the Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum, with substantial surviving flint walls and an amphitheatre.
Walk details: Reading to Basingstoke Community Rail Partnership (turn-by-turn directions).
Mortimer Circular via Ruins of Calleva Atrebatum
Undulating woodland through the Englefield Estate's Hundred Acre Piece and Holden Firs, with a holly tunnel, farmland and views to the Silchester Roman amphitheatre.
Ruins of Calleva Atrebatum: once a thriving Romano-British city that survived into the Saxon period. Now ghostly ruins. Includes an evocative full circuit of city walls, and what's left of a 7,000-capacity gladiatorial arena.
Walk details: Reading to Basingstoke Community Rail Partnership (turn-by-turn directions).
Mortimer Circular via Beech Hill
Very flat open farmland and tree-lined tracks crossing repeatedly between Berkshire and Hampshire, along the Roman Devil's Highway to a midway pub at Beech Hill.
Walk details: Reading to Basingstoke Community Rail Partnership (turn-by-turn directions).
Mortimer Circular via Wokefield Common
Woodland and common land towards Wokefield Common, with bracken, firs and broadleaf trees, clearings, streams and ponds; gentle slopes, at its best in autumn.
Walk details: Reading to Basingstoke Community Rail Partnership (turn-by-turn directions).
Mortimer Circular via Nine Acre Copse
Flat-to-undulating field and woodland paths through Nine Acre Copse around Mortimer village, past an old mill house and pond and the Hampshire-Berkshire boundary stones.
Walk details: Reading to Basingstoke Community Rail Partnership (turn-by-turn directions).
Mortimer to Aldermaston
Gentle farmland, clear stream, Roman earthworks and walls, Scots pine woods, gorse and birch commons and river weirs.
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Mortimer to Midgham
Gentle farmland, Roman earthworks, pine woods, commons, river weirs and short canalside towpath.
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Source: A shorter variant of Mortimer to Aldermaston (Saturday Walkers Club).
Mortimer to Theale
Gentle farmland, Roman earthworks, pine woods, commons, river weirs and canalside towpath.
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Source: A longer variant of Mortimer to Aldermaston (Saturday Walkers Club).