Walks near Staines by train
Middlesex · South East England
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Windsor Circular via Windsor Great Park (Berkshire)
15 minutes direct from Staines.
Beginner-friendly: A gigantic well-signposted park. It’s completely fine to deviate from the suggested route — explore as you like! The lunch stop is a simple café, so no messing around with booking a table in advance.
Windsor Castle (15 mins in)
Windsor (4h30 in)
3 lunch spots: the King And Castle (15 mins in), Savill Garden Visitor Centre Cafe (2h30 in), or Water Lilies at Windsor Great Park (2h45 in)
3 end-of-walk rewards: the Two Brewers Pub, the Prince Harry, or the Royal Windsor
Source: Trains2Green.
Woldingham to Oxted (Surrey)
1 hour from Staines, with one change.
Highly recommended: A very beautiful and varied walk through woodland ridges, open chalk downland, picturesque villages. Crosses the M25 but not significantly marred by the noise. Mostly secluded.
Woodland: a quarter under tree cover.
Godstone (2h in)
4 lunch spots: Godstone (2h15 in) — the Hare & Hounds (not great), the Old Forge Deli, the White Hart, or the Bell
1 end-of-walk reward: the Oxted Inn
Warnings: Chalk paths can be slippery.
Source: Trains2Green.
Similar walk: the Saturday Walkers Club.
Farnham to Blackwater (Surrey)
45 minutes from Staines, with one change.
Highly recommended: Deer park, heathland, MOD training area, Iron Age hillfort, reservoirs, stream valleys, woodland, nature reserve, wet meadows, lakeside sandy shores and common.
Woodland: a third under tree cover.
1 lunch spot: the Foresters (2h15 in)
1 end-of-walk reward: the Crown and Cushion
Warnings: MOD closures apply.
Source: Trains2Green.
Similar walk: the Saturday Walkers Club.
Sunningdale to Windsor (Surrey)
15 minutes direct from Staines.
Parkland, lake shores, ornamental gardens, light woodland, deer park, tree-lined avenue and historic town streets.
Woodland: two fifths under tree cover.
Windsor Great Park (3h30 in)
Windsor (3h30 in)
1 lunch spot: Savill Garden Visitor Centre Cafe (1h45 in)
4 end-of-walk rewards: the Prince Harry, the Carpenters Arms, the Royal Windsor, or the Boatman
Adapted from: Time Out Country Walks Volume 1.
Similar walk: the Saturday Walkers Club.
Oxshott Circular via Claremont Landscape Garden (Surrey)
1 hour from Staines, with one change.
Claremont Landscape Garden: This grade 1 listed garden created by the great landscape designers of the 18th century charts the evolution of the English Landscape Garden (National Trust; 1h15 in; 2h to visit).
1 lunch spot: Claremont Landscape Garden café (1h15 in)
Source: Trains2Green.
Brentford to Osterley (Middlesex)
30 minutes direct from Staines.
Osterley Park and House: A Georgian country estate in west London (National Trust; 1h45 in; 3h to visit).
2 lunch spots: the Bridge Over the Canal and The Fox Pub (1h in), or Osterley Park and House café (1h45 in)
Source: Trains2Green.
Woldingham Circular via Titsey Place (Surrey)
1 hour from Staines, with one change.
Rural valleys, North Downs escarpments, beech woods, plantation paths, open downland, hilltop village and historic garden village.
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
East Croydon to Oxted (Surrey)
45 minutes from Staines, with one change.
First stage of the Vanguard Way, from suburban East Croydon out through Selsdon Wood and the North Downs to Oxted.
Woodland: a third under tree cover.
Walk details: Walking Post (tips, photos and local insights).
Crowthorne to Blackwater (Berkshire)
45 minutes from Staines, with one change.
Pine woods, heathland, lakes and flooded gravel pits, riverside meadows and green belt nature reserves.
Warnings: Flood risk in places.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Blackwater to Wokingham (Hampshire)
45 minutes from Staines, with one change.
River meadows, gravel-pit lakes, nature reserves, country lanes, mixed and pine woodland, heathland, golf course, soft fruit farms and historic market town.
Warnings: Flood risk in places.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Reading to Henley-on-Thames (Berkshire)
45 minutes from Staines, with one change.
Flat Thames towpath, riverside parks, wooded sections, pasture fields, meadows and riverside gardens.
Waterway: four fifths along the River Thames.
Warnings: Flood risk sections.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Reading to Shiplake (Berkshire)
45 minutes from Staines, with one change.
Flat Thames Path riverside countryside, the Horseshoe Bridge and the historic Bull Inn at Sonning (of Three Men in a Boat).
The River Thames: England's best-known river, whose towpath (the Thames Path National Trail) carries long stretches of nearly every walk in this set.
Warnings: Shared with cyclists between Reading and Sonning; walkers only beyond.
Walk details: Reading to Basingstoke Community Rail Partnership (turn-by-turn directions).