Walks you can reach from Winnersh by train
Berkshire · South East England
Stations: Winnersh Triangle · Winnersh
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Reading to Henley-on-Thames (Berkshire)
9 minutes direct from Winnersh Triangle.
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)
9 minutes direct from Winnersh Triangle.
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).
Sunningdale to Windsor and Eton Riverside (Surrey)
30 minutes direct from Winnersh.
Parkland, lake shores, ornamental gardens, light woodland, deer park, tree-lined avenue and historic town streets.
Woodland: two fifths under tree cover.
Time: 3h30–7h30
1 lunch spot: Savill Garden Visitor Centre Cafe (1h30–3h30 in)
4 end-of-walk rewards: the Prince Harry, the Carpenters Arms, the Royal Windsor, or the Boatman
Adapted from: Time Out Country Walks Volume 1.
Similar walk: the Saturday Walkers Club.
Blackwater to Wokingham (Hampshire)
4 minutes direct from Winnersh.
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).
Egham Circular via the Windsor Great Park (Surrey)
30 minutes direct from Winnersh.
Loop from Egham through Windsor Great Park and the Long Walk to the Magna Carta memorials at Runnymede.
The Windsor Great Park: A vast royal deer park south of Windsor Castle, crossed by the Long Walk.
Runnymede: The Thames-side meadow where King John sealed the Magna Carta in 1215.
Time: 3h30–7h
Walk details: Walking Post (tips, photos and local insights).
Twickenham Circular via Marble Hill Park (Middlesex)
1 hour direct from Winnersh.
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)
1 hour direct from Winnersh.
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).
Wokingham to Crowthorne (Berkshire)
4 minutes direct from Winnersh.
Meadows, plantation woodland and heath, through buttercup meadows and Gorrick Plantation to the Heath Lake viewing platform. Rich in birds and wildflowers.
Heath Lake: A Site of Special Scientific Interest lake with a viewing platform, surrounded by woodland.
Warnings: Paths can be muddy after rain.
Walk details: Blackwater Valley Nature Walks (tips, photos, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Ascot to Bagshot (Berkshire)
15 minutes direct from Winnersh.
Longer heath-and-forest crossing on the Three Castles Path, past Englemere Pond, Swinley Park forest tracks and Bagshot Heath. Some of east Berkshire's finest open country.
Englemere Pond: A nature reserve centred on a heathland pond near Ascot, rich in dragonflies and wetland plants.
Lunch: Café at The Lookout, and the Coral Reef waterpark, both roughly midway.
Warnings: Crossing the A322 bridge on a busy, narrow road is the most challenging part.
Walk details: Blackwater Valley Nature Walks (tips, photos, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Longcross to Woking (Surrey)
30 minutes direct from Winnersh.
Heathland, Horsell Common and a Peace Garden; Chobham Common, Rhododendron Walkway, Basingstoke Canal into Woking.
Woodland: half under tree cover.
Chobham Common: The largest National Nature Reserve in the South East, a fine example of lowland heath.
Horsell Common: Sandy common made famous as the Martian landing site in H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds.
Time: 3h30–7h
Warnings: Longcross has no facilities and trains roughly twice an hour; buy single tickets as the stations are on different lines.
Walk details: Walking Post (tips, photos and local insights).
Slough to Egham (Buckinghamshire)
30 minutes direct from Winnersh.
Flat urban start, parkland, deer park, historic royal landscape, ornamental gardens and lake.
Time: 4h
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Richmond to Kingston (Surrey)
1 hour direct from Winnersh.
Recommended: A wildly joyful route; so lovely; superb in summer. A wildly enjoyable, mostly flat and largely traffic-free route following the riverside at Richmond and Kingston and crossing leafy Ham via quiet residential streets and green common land and including Petersham meadows. Generally smooth surfaces with a couple of gates and a few narrow paths; the Richmond riverside path can flood at high tide (a road detour exists). You may pass the herd of cows grazing at Petersham meadows. Toilets just inside Petersham Gate at Richmond Park; a short detour reaches Ham House (National Trust).
Ham House: A grand 17th-century house and gardens beside the Thames at Ham.
Time: 2h–4h
Lunch: Refreshments at Petersham and along the river at both Richmond and Kingston.
1 end-of-walk reward: Canbury Secret Cafe
Warnings: The riverside footpath at Richmond can flood at high tide — detour via the A307 Petersham Road, with several escape points up to the road. The diversion behind St Peter's church is narrow, poorly lit and can be muddy.
Walk details: Slow Ways.