Walks you can reach from Manor Park by train

Urban green spaces, canal towpath, river Thames towpath, parks, gardens and suburban streets.

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

Some great views of London. A varied, undulating route: grey urban roads out of Romford, then green and pleasant parks, nature reserves, common land and farm fields, with some steeper parts. Mostly good paths but some muddy and boggy sections near the M25 crossing; barriers and stiles exclude wheels. Briefly joins the London Loop near Harold Wood Park. No facilities in the middle section. Crosses from Greater London into Essex.

Time: 3h30–7h

Lunch: Shops and pubs at either end but no facilities in the middle.

Warnings: The A127 crossing has a central refuge but no lights, so requires care. Some stiles in poor repair before the M25 road bridge and boggy lower-lying paths; the entrance to Tyler's Common from the south-west is unclear.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

Woodland: a quarter under tree cover.

Time: 4h30–8h30

Walk details: Slow Ways.

Starts along roads, then opens into countryside across farmers' fields (paths can be faint where recently seeded) and becoming more urban but quiet on the approach to town through Hutton Mount.

Time: 2h30–5h

Walk details: Slow Ways.

A mix of countryside and urban paths through woods, fields and a burial ground, with residential streets, a stretch of the London Loop and some rough, rocky and rooty ground. Several field paths are pathless or badly overgrown, with one stretch effectively impassable. Stiles and steps to bridges and a steep gradient near Avon Road.

Time: 4h–8h

1 end-of-walk reward: the Railway

Warnings: Both ends are blocked as plotted: a locked alleyway at the Romford start (detour via the main road and crossings) and fencing around the West Horndon industrial estate (a gate to the left gives access). Warley Street is narrow, very busy and has no verge. Field crossings can be pathless and some sections so overgrown as to be impassable. Stiles, steps and a steep gradient near Avon Road.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

Canal towpath, urban parks and suburban streets ending at Brentford Station.

Source: A shorter variant of Ealing Broadway Circular – the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).

Canal towpath, river Thames towpath, urban parks and suburban streets ending at Richmond via Old Deer Park.

Source: A shorter variant of Ealing Broadway Circular – the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).

Canal towpath, river Thames towpath, urban parks and suburban streets ending at Kew Bridge Station.

Source: A shorter variant of Ealing Broadway Circular – the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).

Canal towpath, river Thames towpath, urban parks and suburban streets ending at Kew Gardens station.

Source: A shorter variant of Ealing Broadway Circular – the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).