Walks near Windsor by train
Berkshire · South East England
Stations: Windsor and Eton Riverside · Windsor and Eton Central
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Henley-on-Thames to Pangbourne (Oxfordshire)
45 minutes from Windsor and Eton Central, with one change.
Highly recommended: Thames riverside, ancient streets, broad valleys, beech woods, fields, small villages, alpaca farm and toll bridge.
Woodland: two fifths under tree cover.
Time: 5h–10h30
1 lunch spot: the Red Lion (1h30–3h30 in)
1 end-of-walk reward: the Greyhound
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Adapted from: Time Out Country Walks Volume 1.
Similar walk: the Saturday Walkers Club.
Pangbourne to Goring & Streatley (Berkshire)
45 minutes from Windsor and Eton Central, with one change.
Highly recommended: Woods, hilly, river and quaint village.
Woodland: a third under tree cover.
Time: 3h30–7h
3 lunch spots: Streatley (2h–4h in) — Pierreponts, or the Swan at Streatley and the Coppa Club; plus the Bull (2h–4h in)
2 end-of-walk rewards: the Miller of Mansfield, or the Catherine Wheel
Warnings: Relatively busy.
Source: Trains2Green.
Pangbourne Circular via Goring (Berkshire)
45 minutes from Windsor and Eton Central, with one change.
Part-wooded ridges, open pastures, wildflower nature reserve, Thames river meadows, beech woods and Thames-side villages.
Time: 4h
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Goring & Streatley Circular via Aldworth (Oxfordshire)
45 minutes from Windsor and Eton Central, with one change.
Undulating downs, Thames-side views, Ridgeway path, chalk hills and quaint villages.
Time: 5h30
Warnings: Steep descents.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Maidenhead to Marlow (Berkshire)
15 minutes from Windsor and Eton Central, with one change.
Thames riverside path, wooded escarpment views, short steep hill and pretty 18th-century town.
Warnings: Riverside can flood.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Reading to Henley-on-Thames (Berkshire)
30 minutes from Windsor and Eton Central, with one change.
Flat Thames towpath, riverside parks, wooded sections, pasture fields, meadows and riverside gardens.
Waterway: four fifths along the River Thames.
Time: 4h–8h
Warnings: Flood risk sections.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Reading to Shiplake (Berkshire)
30 minutes from Windsor and Eton Central, with one change.
Flat Thames Path riverside countryside, the Horseshoe Bridge and the historic Bull Inn at Sonning (of Three Men in a Boat).
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
Warnings: Shared with cyclists between Reading and Sonning; walkers only beyond.
Walk details: Reading to Basingstoke Community Rail Partnership (turn-by-turn directions).
Cholsey to Goring & Streatley (Berkshire)
1 hour from Windsor and Eton Central, with one change.
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).
East Croydon to Oxted (Surrey)
1 hour from Windsor and Eton Riverside, with one change.
First stage of the Vanguard Way, from suburban East Croydon out through Selsdon Wood and the North Downs to Oxted.
Woodland: a third under tree cover.
Time: 5h30–11h
Walk details: Walking Post (tips, photos and local insights).
Blackwater to Wokingham (Hampshire)
1 hour from Windsor and Eton Riverside, with one change.
River meadows, gravel-pit lakes, nature reserves, country lanes, mixed and pine woodland, heathland, golf course, soft fruit farms and historic market town.
Time: 6h
Warnings: Flood risk in places.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Twickenham Circular via Marble Hill Park (Middlesex)
30 minutes direct from Windsor and Eton Riverside.
Flat urban riverside paths, small river corridors, local parks, Thames towpath, luxury riverside houses and Palladian parkland.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Richmond Circular (Surrey)
30 minutes direct from Windsor and Eton Riverside.
River Thames path, open parkland, woodland, deer park, grassy slopes and hilltop views.
Richmond Park: A vast royal park home to herds of red and fallow deer.
Time: 3h
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).