Walks you can reach from Richmond by train
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Windsor and Eton Riverside 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.
Time: 5h–9h30
3 lunch spots: Windsor Great Park (2h30–5h in) — the King And Castle, or Savill Garden Visitor Centre Cafe; plus Water Lilies at Windsor Great Park (3h–5h30 in)
3 end-of-walk rewards: the Two Brewers Pub, the Prince Harry, or the Royal Windsor
Source: Trains2Green.
Sunningdale to Windsor and Eton Riverside (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.
Time: 3h30–7h30
1 lunch spot: Savill Garden Visitor Centre Cafe (1h30–3h30 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: 6h
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.
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: 3h30–7h
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.
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: 3h30–7h
Walk details: Walking Post (tips, photos and local insights).
Wandsworth Town 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.
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: 4h30–8h30
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.
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: 3h30
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: 3h30–7h
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.
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.
Warnings: Paths can be muddy after rain.
Walk details: Blackwater Valley Nature Walks (tips, photos, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).