Walks from Woburn Sands
Buckinghamshire · South East England
MapBeautiful walks starting or ending at Woburn Sands Station.
Alternatively, view walks you can reach directly from Woburn Sands by train.
Woburn Sands to Ridgmont
Farmland, conifer plantation, semi-ancient woodland, deer park, open grassland, safari park perimeter and muddy field paths.
Time: 6h30 (5h walking, 1h30 lunch)
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Bow Brickhill to Woburn Sands
Woods, golf course, gentle hills, landscaped deer park, village streets, playing fields and golf links.
Woodland: a quarter under tree cover.
Woburn Safari Park: a 300-acre wildlife park opened in 1970, home to over 80 species including critically endangered hoofed mammals (3h30 in).
Time: 6h30 (5h walking, 1h30 lunch)
5 lunch spots: Woburn (2h15 in) — the Black Horse, Lussmanns, Galloways, Woburn Thai, or the Woburn Hotel
1 end-of-walk reward: the Station Tavern
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Adapted from: Time Out Country Walks Volume 1.
Similar walk: the Saturday Walkers Club.
Milton Keynes Central to Woburn Sands
Recommended: A scenic, mostly off-road route through Milton Keynes connecting green spaces by footpaths, ramps and wide underpasses, well segregated from traffic. Surfaces vary from grass, compacted mud and stone and wood bark to mostly tarmac. There are kissing gates and an avoidable flight of steps.
Time: 4h30 (3h walking, 1h30 lunch)
Warnings: Kissing gates at the Woburn Sands end may restrict accessibility. One avoidable flight of steps near Peartree Bridge. Steps down to the Grand Union Canal can be bypassed by ramp.
Walk details: Slow Ways.
Woburn Sands to Flitwick
A pleasant, easy-going country walk mostly on tracks and good footpaths or bridleways, with road sections generally having pavements or verges. It runs through fields, golf course and woodland and gently rolling farmland; waymarking is good and there are no stiles but at least ten kissing gates. Follows the Greensand Ridge Walk and the John Bunyan Trail in places; an alternative through the safari park grounds is possible.
Time: 5h (3h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)
Lunch: Several refreshment options along the way, though the White Horse in Husborne Crawley is currently closed.
Warnings: At least ten kissing gates; one field path may be uncleared and overgrown with high barley.
Walk details: Slow Ways.