Walks you can reach from Lymington Town by train

Forest inclosures and heath between the villages of Lyndhurst and Brockenhurst, with Lymington River bathing spots and spring bluebells. Strenuous.

Walk details: New Forest Walks (tips, photos, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).

Ancient woodland, open heath and inclosures, crossing the Beaulieu River past Matley and Denny Woods. Strenuous.

Matley Wood: A small but beautiful tract of ancient and ornamental New Forest woodland reached across open heath.

Denny Wood: An ancient and ornamental woodland of beech and oak flanked by ferns and surrounded by heath and wetland habitats.

Warnings: Some roadside walking with limited footpath; take care.

Walk details: New Forest Walks (tips, photos, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).

Open heath and forest inclosures, a caravan park and a dead-straight stretch of the disused Castleman Corkscrew railway, now a cycle route. Strenuous.

Warnings: Some short road sections have no footpath; watch for traffic.

Walk details: New Forest Walks (tips, photos, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).

Uses Forestry England approved routes.

Woodland: two fifths under tree cover.

Time: 5h–10h

Walk details: Slow Ways.

Time: 3h30–6h30

Warnings: Follows a busy road for a fifth of the walk.

Walk details: Slow Ways.