Walks from Ash Vale
MapBeautiful walks starting or ending at Ash Vale Station.
Alternatively, view walks you can reach directly from Ash Vale by train.
Ash Vale Circular via North Downs Way
Flat canal towpath, disused railway line, heathland commons, North Downs Way, open fields, mixed woodland and the barren Ash Ranges.
Time: 6h30
Warnings: MOD firing range closures.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Ash Vale to Worplesdon
Basingstoke Canal towpath, hilly MOD heathland (Ash Ranges), pine-covered heath, farmland tracks, mixed woodland, open common and mature woodland on Whitmoor Common.
Warnings: MOD closures apply.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Ash Vale to Guildford
A varied route taking in canal towpath, fields, woodland, some hills and town walking, beginning along the Basingstoke Canal at Ash Vale and with a fiddly wooded section at Ash and a final ridge giving views over Guildford. The stretch near the A31 isn't ideal. East of Puttenham the route follows the North Downs Way under the A3 at Watts Gallery, where there is a tea shop. As you descend The Mount into Guildford you pass Lewis Carroll's burial spot.
Woodland: a quarter under tree cover.
Time: 4h30–9h
2 lunch spots: Puttenham — the Good Intent, or the Jolly Farmer
Walk details: Slow Ways.
Ash Vale to Brookwood
An easy, almost entirely flat walk along the Basingstoke Canal towpath (after the initial climb up from Ash Vale). Pleasant and shaded by the water and though narrow in places due to undergrowth and muddy after rain.
Waterway: almost all along the Basingstoke Canal.
Time: 2h30–5h
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Walk details: Slow Ways.
Ash Vale to Wanborough
Canal towpath, disused railway line, heathland, North Downs Way, open fields and mixed woodland.
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Source: A shorter variant of Ash Vale Circular via North Downs Way – the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Ash Vale to Wanborough
Basingstoke Canal towpath, MOD firing range heathland, pine woodland and farmland.
Warnings: MOD closures apply.
Source: An alternative variant of Ash Vale to Worplesdon – the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Ash Vale to Ash
Basingstoke Canal towpath, MOD firing range heathland, open heath and pine woodland.
Warnings: MOD closures apply.
Source: A shorter variant of Ash Vale to Worplesdon – the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Ash Vale to Ash
Flat canal towpath, disused railway line, heathland commons, North Downs Way, open fields, mixed woodland and ridge traverse of Ash Ranges.
Warnings: MOD firing range closures.
Source: A variant of Ash Vale Circular via North Downs Way – the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Wanborough to Ash Vale
North Downs Way, heathland commons, open fields, mixed woodland and the Ash Ranges.
Warnings: MOD firing range closures.
Source: A shorter variant of Ash Vale Circular via North Downs Way – the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Ash to Ash Vale
Flat canal towpath, disused railway line, heathland commons, North Downs Way, open fields, mixed woodland and the Ash Ranges.
Warnings: MOD firing range closures.
Source: A shorter variant of Ash Vale Circular via North Downs Way – the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Brookwood to Ash Vale
Cemetery grounds, heathland and firing range ridgeline.
Warnings: Army range closures apply.
Source: A shorter variant of Ash to Brookwood – the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).