Walks from Woburn Sands

Farmland, conifer plantation, semi-ancient woodland, deer park, open grassland, safari park perimeter and muddy field paths.

Warnings: Can be muddy.

Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).

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.

Time: 5h–10h

5 lunch spots: Woburn (2h–4h30 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.

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: 3h–5h30

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.

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: 3h30–7h30

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.