Best walks from Northwood
Middlesex · South East England
MapJump on a train, get off at Northwood Station and lose yourself in a beautiful hike for the day.
Northwood Station to Watford High Street Station
a lovely picturesque green walk with varied scenery. A green, varied walk using a long rail-side path, a golf course crossing, farm fields and the tree-lined Ebury Way alongside the River Colne, with quiet roads at the ends. Mostly good surfaces and greenery; steep steps and mud and narrow bridges in places. Follows the Capital Ring across the golf course.
6km.
Steep steps after Hampermill Lake, narrow bridges and mud. Stay alert crossing the golf course. The rail-side path and Ebury Way are unlit at night.
Lunch stop: Tasty Bean Café.
Documented by Slow Ways — download GPX route
Northwood Station to Harrow-on-the-Hill Station
A very urban, easy-to-follow walk on pavements the whole way, through Pinner, with various green spaces just off the route to break up the suburban feel. There are small undulating hills and but wide pavements give good access with no gates or barriers. The route passes under the roundabout near the Harrow end, avoiding the busy roads there.
Easy: 7km, moderate ascents.
Documented by Slow Ways — download GPX route
Rickmansworth Station to Northwood Station
A mostly traffic-free route on level ground, split between pavements in quiet residential and private-estate streets and unlit off-road footpaths alongside the Metropolitan line and golf courses. The footpath surface is hard-packed soil that can be muddy and flooded after wet weather and with uneven tree roots and embedded stones; estate pavements are a rough mix of grass and gravel. Not accessibility-friendly. An alternative to the RicNor route, avoiding the Moor Park golf course. Connects to the London LOOP. The route passes through the churchyard of St Mary the Virgin.
Easy: 5km, flat terrain.
A short section near the London Road dual carriageway by Rickmansworth is busy but has a decent pavement; the off-road footpaths are unlit and inadvisable after dark. The path before Westbury Road can flood badly.