Walks you can reach from Portchester by train

Recommended

Woodland: a fifth under tree cover.

Highdown Gardens (30m in)

Cissbury Ring Hill Fort (National Trust; 3h45 in)

Time: 7h (5h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)

2 lunch spots: the Black Horse (3h in), or the Gun Inn (3h in)

Adapted from: The Rough Guide to Walks in London & the South East (3rd edition).

Reverse direction: Railwalks.

Historic cathedral city streets, watermeadows, iron age hillfort, downland ridges, river valley and ancient meadows.

Time: 5h30 (4h walking, 1h30 lunch)

Warnings: M3 motorway noise.

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.

Time: 6h30 (5h walking, 1h30 lunch)

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

Flat coastal sea wall, tidal harbour, salt marsh, sand dunes, beach, mudflats, tidal lake and historic village high street.

Time: 5h30 (4h walking, 1h30 lunch)

Warnings: Check tide timings.

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

Flat tidal harbour shoreline, raised sea walls, mudflats, fields, light woodland, duck pond and pedestrianised historic city centre.

Time: 6h30 (5h walking, 1h30 lunch)

Warnings: Can be muddy. Best at high tide.

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

Coastal country park, stony beach, light woodland, mudflats, riverside causeway with marinas, open farmland and village lanes.

Woodland: a quarter under tree cover.

Time: 6h30 (5h walking, 1h30 lunch)

3 lunch spots: the Harpers Steakhouse (2h45 in), Little Canton (2h45 in), or the Jolly Sailor (3h in)

4 end-of-walk rewards: Manor Farm Café, the Dolphin, the Brewery Bar, or the Railway

Warnings: Check tide timings.

Adapted from: Time Out Country Walks Volume 1.

Similar walk: the Saturday Walkers Club.

Open downland, coastal plain, quiet alleyways, farmland, residential streets, shingle beach, seafront promenade and riverside walk.

Time: 5h (3h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)

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

Recommended: Lovely views of the harbour inlets. A coastal walk incorporating several sections beside the shore of Chichester Harbour, on a mix of footpaths and minor roads with mainly arable fields and several stiles and kissing gates. The footpath at Fishbourne is tidal at peak high tides. Easy to follow and well-signed. Parallels the Chichester Cathedral Mini Pilgrimage from Bosham to Chichester.

Coastal: four fifths along the coast.

Chichester Harbour

Time: 5h30 (4h walking, 1h30 lunch)

Lunch: Refreshments at Bosham, roughly halfway.

Warnings: Two sections of eroded coastal defence after winter storms are officially marked closed (passable with care at personal risk). The Fishbourne footpath floods at spring high tides. Stiles and kissing gates.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

A scenic, almost entirely off-road walk crossing picturesque estates (War Memorial Park, Hackwood Park), woodland and arable farmers' fields, with a variety of landscapes. Some narrow and overgrown stretches (notably White Lane), a couple of stiles and kissing gates and a small amount of quiet-lane road walking; firm underfoot in dry spells. Not much in the way of resting places; the church at Weston Patrick has seating. A bus runs between the two endpoints.

Woodland: a quarter under tree cover.

Time: 6h30 (5h walking, 1h30 lunch)

1 lunch spot: Avenue Nurseries café

Warnings: Several stiles and kissing gates, and an overgrown stretch of track (White Lane). The B3349 crossing has good sightlines south but a northbound bend, so take care. Cattle, including Highland cows, often in a field near Alton.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

Follows the Solent Way, with a ferry from Portsmouth Harbour to Gosport and a ferry from Warsash to Hamble-le-Rice.

Time: 6h30 (5h walking, 1h30 lunch)

Walk details: Railwalks.

Time: 3h30 (2h walking, 1h30 lunch)

Walk details: Railwalks.

Solent Way with an inland section and a ferry crossing to Hythe.

Time: 9h (7h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)

Walk details: Railwalks.