Walks you can reach from Warblington by train
Hampshire · South East England
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Fishbourne Circular via Chichester Harbour (Sussex)
15 minutes direct from Warblington.
Beginner-friendly: Just follow the coast and come back along a straight walk. It’s almost too simple! Flat, short and plenty of choices for lunch. Chichester Harbour is a little-known National Landscape. Its protected saltmarsh landscape feeds an abundance of birdlife. It’s a major recreational harbour but somehow has a romantically melancholy and isolated air — you can imagine sea shanties being composed here.
Coastal: three fifths along the coast.
Time: 3h–6h
4 lunch spots: Bosham (1h30–3h in) — the Anchor Bleu, Timberley's, the Berkeley Arms, or Marwick's
2 end-of-walk rewards: the Bull's Head Pub, or the Woolpack Inn
Adapted from: The Rough Guide to Walks in London & the South East (3rd edition).
Southbourne to Emsworth (Sussex)
6 minutes direct from Warblington.
Flat coastal sea wall, tidal harbour, salt marsh, sand dunes, beach, mudflats, tidal lake and historic village high street.
Warnings: Check tide timings.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Southbourne to Chichester (Sussex)
6 minutes direct from Warblington.
Flat tidal harbour shoreline, raised sea walls, mudflats, fields, light woodland, duck pond and pedestrianised historic city centre.
Time: 5h
Warnings: Can be muddy. Best at high tide.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Portsmouth Harbour to Havant (Hampshire)
30 minutes direct from Warblington.
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).
Emsworth to Chichester (Hampshire)
3 minutes direct from Warblington.
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.
Time: 4h–8h
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.
Portsmouth Harbour to Hamble (Hampshire)
30 minutes direct from Warblington.
Follows the Solent Way, with a ferry from Portsmouth Harbour to Gosport and a ferry from Warsash to Hamble-le-Rice.
Walk details: Railwalks.
Ryde Esplanade to Portsmouth and Southsea (Hampshire)
15 minutes direct from Warblington.
A short, easy urban route from the seafront into the city centre and passing a wide range of architecture and Southsea Common with a view over the Solent. Mostly flat and on pavements. The route includes a hovercraft crossing between Portsmouth and Ryde. Public toilets at the Southsea Hovercraft Terminal.
Time: 2h30–5h
Warnings: The mapped crossing at the Winston Churchill Avenue roundabout is wrong; the road has railings between carriageways, so continue past the roundabout to the pelican crossing.
Walk details: Slow Ways.
Southbourne to Bosham (Sussex)
6 minutes direct from Warblington.
Flat tidal harbour shoreline, raised sea walls, mudflats, fields and quaint harbourside village.
Warnings: Can be muddy. Best at high tide.
Source: A shorter variant of Southbourne to Chichester – the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).