Walks you can reach from Maryland 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).

Ancient woodland, open flats, commons, forest rides, gravel tracks, residential roads and meadows.

Time: 5h30

Warnings: Can be muddy.

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

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.

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.

Open flats, commons, woodland, forest rides and gravel tracks.

Warnings: Can be muddy.

Source: A shorter variant of Manor Park to Epping – the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).

Open flats, commons, woodland, forest rides and gravel tracks.

Warnings: Can be muddy.

Source: A shorter variant of Manor Park to Epping – the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).

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).