Walks you can reach from Norbiton by train

Flat South West London parks loop through Bushy Park, Hampton Court Park and Richmond Park, with deer and Thames Path stretches.

Woodland: a third under tree cover.

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

Walk details: Walking Post (tips, photos and local insights).

Urban streets, open common, wooded paths, golf fairways, parkland and quiet roads.

Time: 4h (2h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)

Warnings: Can be muddy.

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

Flat urban riverside paths, small river corridors, local parks, Thames towpath, luxury riverside houses and Palladian parkland.

Time: 4h30 (3h walking, 1h30 lunch)

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

River Thames path, open parkland, woodland, deer park, grassy slopes and hilltop views.

Richmond Park: A vast royal park home to herds of red and fallow deer.

Time: 4h30 (3h walking, 1h30 lunch)

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

Suburban streets, open common, landscaped park, woodland riverside path, Royal Park grassland, suburban roads and riverside Thames path.

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

Warnings: Can be muddy.

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

Reverse direction: Slow Ways (inc. GPX).

Common heathland, woodland, royal deer park, formal gardens, Thames riverside path and open grassland.

Time: 6h (4h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)

Warnings: Can be muddy.

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

Reverse direction: Slow Ways (inc. GPX).

Through South London's best parks to the Thames; Putney Heath, Wimbledon Common, Richmond Park, Ham House, Teddington Lock.

Woodland: a third under tree cover.

Ham House and Garden (National Trust)

Wimbledon Windmill: An 1817 windmill on Wimbledon Common, now a small museum.

Richmond Park: A vast royal park home to herds of red and fallow deer.

Ham House: A grand 17th-century house and gardens beside the Thames at Ham.

Time: 6h (4h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)

Walk details: Walking Post (tips, photos and local insights).

Recommended: A wildly joyful route; so lovely; superb in summer. A wildly enjoyable, mostly flat and largely traffic-free route following the riverside at Richmond and Kingston and crossing leafy Ham via quiet residential streets and green common land and including Petersham meadows. Generally smooth surfaces with a couple of gates and a few narrow paths; the Richmond riverside path can flood at high tide (a road detour exists). You may pass the herd of cows grazing at Petersham meadows. Toilets just inside Petersham Gate at Richmond Park; a short detour reaches Ham House (National Trust).

Ham House and Garden (National Trust)

Ham House: A grand 17th-century house and gardens beside the Thames at Ham.

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

Lunch: Refreshments at Petersham and along the river at both Richmond and Kingston.

1 end-of-walk reward: Canbury Secret Cafe

Warnings: The riverside footpath at Richmond can flood at high tide — detour via the A307 Petersham Road, with several escape points up to the road. The diversion behind St Peter's church is narrow, poorly lit and can be muddy.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

Flat royal parkland, ornamental ponds, woodland plantations and suburban streets; bypasses Home Park.

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

Source: A shorter variant of Hampton Court Circular (Saturday Walkers Club).

Thames riverside path, deer park and formal palace gardens.

Source: A longer variant of Wimbledon to Kingston (Saturday Walkers Club).

Parkland, commons, brookside paths, wet woodland and Thames-side esplanade.

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

Warnings: Can be muddy.

Source: A shorter variant of Beverley Brook (Saturday Walkers Club).

Parkland, commons, brookside paths and wet woodland.

Time: 4h (2h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)

Warnings: Can be muddy.

Source: A shorter variant of Beverley Brook (Saturday Walkers Club).