Walks from Balcombe
MapBeautiful walks starting or ending at Balcombe Station.
Alternatively, view walks you can reach directly from Balcombe by train.
Balcombe Circular via Nymans
Highly recommended: Fields, woods, stream valleys, grassy hillsides, estate parkland, a fine old village and stately home. Mostly secluded.
Woodland: half under tree cover.
Time: 4h30–8h30
3 lunch spots: Handcross (2h–3h30 in) — Nymans café, the Red Lion, or JO.CO cafe
1 end-of-walk reward: the Victory
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Adapted from: Time Out Country Walks Volume 1.
Similar walk: the Saturday Walkers Club.
Balcombe Circular via Ardingly Reservoir
Recommended
Woodland: a quarter under tree cover.
Time: 3h–6h30
1 lunch spot: Ardingly Reservoir Activity Centre Café (1h30–3h30 in)
Source: Trains2Green.
Similar walk: the Saturday Walkers Club.
Balcombe Circular via Wakehurst
Undulating High Weald countryside, wooded hillsides, farm fields, covered footbridge over reservoir valley, permissive parkland paths and botanic gardens.
Time: 4h
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Balcombe to East Grinstead
Gentle wooded hills, muddy farm tracks, landscaped gardens, reservoir shoreline, open fields and woodland paths.
Time: 5h
Warnings: Can be very muddy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Balcombe to Horsham
Wealden woods, farmland fields, streams, ponds, riverside nature reserve and old market town.
Warnings: Can be very overgrown.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Haywards Heath to Balcombe
Undulating High Weald farmland, woodland, golf course, reservoir dam wall, fields and a private school grounds.
Time: 4h
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Haywards Heath to Balcombe
Rolling High Weald hills, woodland, farmland, river valley, golf course, level crossing and quiet lanes.
Time: 2h30
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Haywards Heath to Balcombe
High Weald farmland and woodland on the Sussex Ouse Valley Way, past the spectacular 37-arch Ouse Valley Viaduct.
The Ouse Valley Viaduct: An ornate 1841 brick railway viaduct of 37 arches carrying the London-Brighton line over the Ouse.
Time: 2h30
Warnings: Possible mud near the golf club.
Walk details: Travelog Lewes (tips, photos, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Balcombe Circular via Ardingly
Undulating High Weald farmland, woodland, reservoir perimeter path, fields and estate grounds.
Time: 4h
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Source: A variant of Haywards Heath to Balcombe via Ardingly – the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Balcombe Circular via Wakehurst & St Peter, Ardingly
Reservoir perimeter path, scrubland, farm fields, church lane, showground perimeter, permissive parkland paths and botanic gardens.
Time: 3h
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Source: A shorter variant of Balcombe Circular via Wakehurst – the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).