Walks near Stroud by train
Gloucestershire · South West England
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Bath Spa Circular via Dundas Aqueduct (Somerset)
1 hour from Stroud, with one change.
Disused railway path, tunnels, viaducts, canal towpath, river and historic city centre.
Time: 6h30 (5h walking, 1h30 lunch)
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Reading to Henley-on-Thames (Berkshire)
1 hour direct from Stroud.
Flat Thames towpath, riverside parks, wooded sections, pasture fields, meadows and riverside gardens.
Waterway: four fifths along the River Thames.
Time: 5h30 (4h walking, 1h30 lunch)
Warnings: Flood risk sections.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Reading to Shiplake (Berkshire)
1 hour direct from Stroud.
Flat Thames Path riverside countryside, the Horseshoe Bridge and the historic Bull Inn at Sonning (of Three Men in a Boat).
The River Thames: England's best-known river, whose towpath (the Thames Path National Trail) carries long stretches of nearly every walk in this set.
Time: 4h (2h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)
Warnings: Shared with cyclists between Reading and Sonning; walkers only beyond.
Walk details: Reading to Basingstoke Community Rail Partnership (turn-by-turn directions).
Ashchurch for Tewkesbury to Pershore (Gloucestershire)
45 minutes from Stroud, with one change.
Dramatic outlying northwestern limb of the Cotswolds. Walk crosses from Gloucestershire into Worcestershire at Carrant Brook.
Time: 7h (5h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)
Warnings: Dangerously busy lane with tight bends near Aston-on-Carrant.
Walk details: Walk Midlands (tips, photos and local insights).
Worcestershire Parkway to Pershore (Worcestershire)
45 minutes from Stroud, with one change.
Open farmland and field paths through quiet villages.
Time: 4h (2h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)
Walk details: Worcestershire Community Rail Partnership (PDF).
Cholsey to Goring & Streatley (Berkshire)
1 hour from Stroud, with one change.
Thames riverside path, gently rolling Oxfordshire countryside, open fields and attractive villages.
Time: 6h30 (5h walking, 1h30 lunch)
Warnings: Long, exposed walk.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Kemble Circular via Thames Head and Cirencester (Wiltshire)
15 minutes direct from Stroud.
Cotswolds farmland, disused canal towpath, ancient hillfort, beech woods, high watershed, grand parkland vistas, market town streets, quiet fields and upper Thames riverbank.
Time: 8h (6h walking, 1h30 lunch, 30m break)
Warnings: Can flood at Thames Head.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Gloucester Circular via Gloucester Docks (Gloucestershire)
15 minutes direct from Stroud.
Medieval friaries, Gloucester Cathedral's fan-vaulted cloisters, the historic docks and the river-meadow Alney Island reserve on the Severn.
Gloucester Docks: Britain's most inland port, the 1827 terminus of the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal, ringed by Victorian warehouses.
Gloucester Cathedral: A great medieval cathedral with celebrated fan-vaulted cloisters, near the start of the walk.
Llanthony Secunda Priory: The surviving buildings of a 12th-century Augustinian priory beside the Gloucester docks.
Alney Island Nature Reserve: A river-meadow nature reserve on an island between two channels of the River Severn.
Over Bridge: A single-span masonry bridge over the Severn designed by Thomas Telford and completed in 1829.
Time: 3h30 (2h walking, 1h30 lunch)
Walk details: Bristol Rail Campaign (photos, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Didcot Parkway Circular via Wittenham Clumps (Berkshire)
45 minutes direct from Stroud.
Thames Valley farmland, riverside paths, attractive villages, Iron Age hill forts and a nature reserve.
Time: 7h (5h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Chippenham Circular via Lacock (Wiltshire)
45 minutes from Stroud, with one change.
Flat fields, river meadows, canal path, farmland, small woods and residential streets.
Lacock (National Trust)
Time: 6h (4h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Cholsey Circular via Agatha Christie's Grave (Berkshire)
1 hour from Stroud, with one change.
Level, stile-free fields and tracks past the Saxon church where Agatha Christie is buried, the Aston villages and a heritage railway.
Agatha Christie's Grave: the grave of the crime novelist, beside the north wall of St Mary's churchyard under her married name Mallowan.
Time: 4h (2h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)
Lunch: The Chequers pub at Aston Tirrold.
Walk details: Round Reading Walk.
Worcester Foregate Street to Worcestershire Parkway (Worcestershire)
45 minutes from Stroud, with one change.
Canal towpath at the start, then a wooded climb and open parkland.
Greyfriars House and Garden (National Trust)
Time: 3h30 (2h walking, 1h30 lunch)
Walk details: Worcestershire Community Rail Partnership (PDF).