Walks from Sandhurst

Skilfully avoids the busy roads around Wokingham, leading through quiet roads, fields and forest footpaths, mostly tree-shaded and largely flat. The off-road paths have uneven surfaces with one steep downhill gully; the later section can be very muddy when wet and rutted and full of tree roots. Briefly follows the Blackwater Valley Path, the Three Castles Path, and passes Simons Wood and the Gorrick Plantation.

Woodland: two fifths under tree cover.

Time: 2h30–5h30

Warnings: Follows a busy road for a sixth of the walk. A few sections require walking along narrow lanes with no footpath and crossing busy roads where the footpath runs out. The start of the off-road path is hard to find and unsigned. Can be muddy.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

Roads from station, gravel-pit lakes, nature reserves, country lanes, mixed woodland, heathland and pine woods.

Source: A variant of Blackwater to Wokingham – the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).

Roads from station, Horseshoe Lake circuit, fields, pine woodland, heathland, golf course, soft fruit farms and market town.

Source: A variant of Blackwater to Wokingham – the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).

Roads from station, gravel-pit lakes, nature reserves, country lanes, mixed and pine woodland, heathland, golf course, soft fruit farms and historic market town.

Source: A variant of Blackwater to Wokingham – the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).

Pine woods, heathland, lakes and flooded gravel pits, riverside meadows and town roads.

Warnings: Flood risk in places.

Source: A shorter variant of Crowthorne to Blackwater via Eversley Cross – the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).