Walks you can reach from Richmond by train
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Windsor Circular via Windsor Great Park (Berkshire)
30 minutes direct from Richmond.
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 (15m in)
Windsor (4h30 in)
Time: 6h30 (5h walking, 1h30 lunch)
3 lunch spots: Windsor Great Park (2h30 in) — the King And Castle, or Savill Garden Visitor Centre Cafe; plus 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.
Sunningdale to Windsor (Surrey)
30 minutes direct from Richmond.
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)
Time: 5h (3h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)
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.
Blackwater to Wokingham (Hampshire)
45 minutes direct from Richmond.
River meadows, gravel-pit lakes, nature reserves, country lanes, mixed and pine woodland, heathland, golf course, soft fruit farms and historic market town.
Time: 7h30 (6h walking, 1h30 lunch)
Warnings: Flood risk in places.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Twickenham Circular via Marble Hill Park (Middlesex)
3 minutes direct from Richmond.
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).
Teddington Circular (Middlesex)
15 minutes direct from Richmond.
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).
Egham Circular via the Windsor Great Park (Surrey)
30 minutes direct from Richmond.
Loop from Egham through Windsor Great Park and the Long Walk to the Magna Carta memorials at Runnymede.
Runnymede and Ankerwycke (National Trust; 1h in)
The Windsor Great Park: A vast royal deer park south of Windsor Castle, crossed by the Long Walk.
Runnymede: The Thames-side meadow where King John sealed the Magna Carta in 1215.
Time: 5h (3h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)
Walk details: Walking Post (tips, photos and local insights).
Wandsworth to Teddington (Surrey)
15 minutes direct from Richmond.
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).
Ashford to Ham Street (Middlesex)
15 minutes direct from Richmond.
River path, urban suburbs, new housing estates, tranquil pastures, ancient woodland and mud-prone bridleway.
Time: 6h (4h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Norbiton to Hammersmith (District and Piccadilly lines) (Surrey)
30 minutes direct from Richmond.
Tree-lined residential streets, large deer park, woodland garden, open grassland, riverside common, village green, Thames riverfront and grand historic riverside houses.
Time: 5h (3h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Longcross to Woking (Surrey)
30 minutes direct from Richmond.
Heathland, Horsell Common and a Peace Garden; Chobham Common, Rhododendron Walkway, Basingstoke Canal into Woking.
Woodland: half under tree cover.
Chobham Common: The largest National Nature Reserve in the South East, a fine example of lowland heath.
Horsell Common: Sandy common made famous as the Martian landing site in H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds.
Time: 5h (3h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)
Warnings: Longcross has no facilities and trains roughly twice an hour; buy single tickets as the stations are on different lines.
Walk details: Walking Post (tips, photos and local insights).
Ascot to Bagshot (Berkshire)
45 minutes direct from Richmond.
Longer heath-and-forest crossing on the Three Castles Path, past Englemere Pond, Swinley Park forest tracks and Bagshot Heath. Some of east Berkshire's finest open country.
Englemere Pond: A nature reserve centred on a heathland pond near Ascot, rich in dragonflies and wetland plants.
Time: 5h30 (4h walking, 1h30 lunch)
Lunch: Café at The Lookout, and the Coral Reef waterpark, both roughly midway.
Warnings: Crossing the A322 bridge on a busy, narrow road is the most challenging part.
Walk details: Blackwater Valley Nature Walks (tips, photos, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Wokingham to Crowthorne (Berkshire)
45 minutes direct from Richmond.
Meadows, plantation woodland and heath, through buttercup meadows and Gorrick Plantation to the Heath Lake viewing platform. Rich in birds and wildflowers.
Heath Lake: A Site of Special Scientific Interest lake with a viewing platform, surrounded by woodland.
Time: 3h30 (2h walking, 1h30 lunch)
Warnings: Paths can be muddy after rain.
Walk details: Blackwater Valley Nature Walks (tips, photos, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).