Walks you can reach from Liss by train

Highly recommended: Remote heathland, pretty lakes, sandy bridleways, ancient woodland, heather and gorse commons and a dramatic natural amphitheatre.

Woodland: a third under tree cover.

Devil's Punch Bowl

Time: 4h30–9h30

Lunch: Nowhere to eat en route — pack lunch!

1 end-of-walk reward: the Harper's Steakhouse

Warnings: Can be muddy.

Adapted from: Time Out Country Walks Volume 1.

Similar walk: the Saturday Walkers Club.

Mixed National Trust woodland, heathland with bracken, gorse, heather and bilberry, hilltop plateau, open views, rhododendron tunnels and undulating bridleways.

Time: 4h30

Warnings: Can be muddy.

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

Mixed oak, beech and chestnut woods, bridleways, streams, open countryside, horse paddocks and a final climb into a market town.

Woodland: half under tree cover.

Time: 4h–8h30

2 lunch spots: Fernhurst (2h30–5h in) — the Red Lion Pub, or the Fern Café

1 end-of-walk reward: the Harper's Steakhouse

Warnings: Can be muddy.

Adapted from: Time Out Country Walks Volume 1.

Similar walks: the Saturday Walkers Club and Slow Ways (inc. GPX).

Gentle farmland, bridleways, mixed woodland, open fields, National Trust copses and a medieval village green.

Time: 4h

Warnings: Can be muddy.

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

Reverse direction: Surrey Hills National Landscape.

Park- and woodland, steep lonely valleys, open fields, hamlets, beech avenue and South Downs escarpment views.

Time: 6h

Warnings: Steep climbs and descents.

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

Undulating ramble through western South Downs, gentle hills, hilltop views and farmland.

Time: 5h

Warnings: Can be muddy.

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

Flat coastal walk, seafront promenade, sandy beaches, short ferry crossing, disused railway path and harbourside shore path.

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

Recommended: An absolutely splendid route. An undulating, largely off-road route across country and a mix of woodland and farm tracks with some quiet lane walking. There are quite a few ups and downs before Godalming. Goes through Woodland Trust woods at Brook to reduce A-road walking; passes Milford station and bus stops, giving drop-out points (note reduced Sunday transport).

Woodland: a quarter under tree cover.

Time: 4h–8h30

Lunch: A pub at Brook (book ahead for food, especially on Sundays) plus refreshments and bus stops at Witley.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

Recommended: One of the best slow ways. A lovely mix of woodland and heathland on good paths and following the Greensand Way then the North Downs Way into Farnham. Mostly off-road with some quiet road-walking; a few kissing gates but no stiles. Follows the Greensand Way and links to the North Downs Way; skirts the edge of (but avoids) the Hankley Common MoD training area. Crosses the River Wey and its tributaries at several points.

Woodland: a third under tree cover.

Mother Ludlam's Cave: Sandstone cave associated with local folklore.

Time: 6h–11h30

1 lunch spot: the Barley Mow, Tilford Green

Walk details: Slow Ways.

Reverse direction: the Saturday Walkers Club.

Pleasant walk mostly on safe footpaths with nice views; particularly beautiful with lovely views and tranquil woods; very enjoyable. A beautiful but strenuous walk on countryside footpaths, bridleways and byways through woods and across arable fields, within the South Downs National Park. Soft and muddy after rain and with some stiles and the very steep Shoulder of Mutton hill. Within the South Downs National Park, mostly following the Hangers Way (which can be followed all the way between the two towns). Passes Chawton (Jane Austen's house). A water shrew was spotted on one walk.

Woodland: a quarter under tree cover.

Time: 6h–12h

Lunch: A tea room at Chawton, roughly midway. Pubs at Upper Farringdon and Hawkley may not always be open, so don't rely on facilities other than at Alton and Petersfield.

Warnings: Shoulder of Mutton Hill is very steep on both sides (zig-zag options exist via the Hangers Way); Selborne Common is notoriously muddy; some stiles, steps and ploughed-field paths. A short A32 section can be avoided via the Chawton House estate footpath.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

Woodland paths.

Woodland: three fifths under tree cover.

Time: 6h–11h30

Walk details: Railwalks.

Similar walk: Slow Ways (inc. GPX).

Steep hillside ascent of Shoulder of Mutton Hill, gentle gradients, one short steep downhill section and wooded hangers.

Time: 3h

Warnings: Steep descent, slippery winter.

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