Walks from Bedwyn
Wiltshire · South West England
MapBeautiful walks starting or ending at Bedwyn Station.
Alternatively, view walks you can reach directly from Bedwyn by train.
Bedwyn Circular via Chisbury
Pretty villages of Little Bedwyn and Chisbury, farmland with expansive views, and the Kennet & Avon Canal.
The Kennet & Avon Canal: A historic canal with a towpath running past Great Bedwyn and the Crofton pumping station.
Time: 4h (2h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)
Warnings: Some steep steps over the canal and railway at Little Bedwyn, avoidable via a road alternative.
Walk details: Visit Pewsey Vale (photos).
Bedwyn Circular via Wilton
Wilton Windmill (the only working windmill in Wessex), Wilton Water, Crofton Beam Engines and Bedwyn Brail woodland, with Kennet & Avon Canal stretches.
Wilton Windmill: A working five-storey brick tower windmill, the only one of its kind in Wessex, above the village of Wilton.
Wilton Water: A reservoir feeding the Kennet & Avon Canal, popular with wildfowl, beside the village of Wilton.
Crofton Beam Engines: A restored Georgian pumping station on the Kennet & Avon Canal housing the world's oldest working steam beam engine.
The Kennet & Avon Canal: A historic canal with a towpath running past Great Bedwyn and the Crofton pumping station.
Time: 3h30 (2h walking, 1h30 lunch)
Walk details: Visit Pewsey Vale (photos).
Bedwyn Circular via Wilton Brail
Hatchet Lane bridleway, Wilton Brail woodland and the restored Crofton Beam Engines canal pumping station.
Crofton Beam Engines: A restored Georgian pumping station on the Kennet & Avon Canal housing the world's oldest working steam beam engine.
Time: 3h30 (2h walking, 1h30 lunch)
Warnings: Includes one pedestrian rail crossing.
Walk details: Visit Pewsey Vale (photos).
Bedwyn Circular via Burridge Heath
Kennet & Avon Canal towpath, the pretty village of Little Bedwyn and a climb to Burridge Heath.
The Kennet & Avon Canal: A historic canal with a towpath running past Great Bedwyn and the Crofton pumping station.
Time: 3h30 (2h walking, 1h30 lunch)
Walk details: Visit Pewsey Vale (photos).
Bedwyn Circular via St Katharine's
Country lanes, Bedwyn Common and Chisbury Wood, passing the Victorian church of St Katharine's.
Time: 3h30 (2h walking, 1h30 lunch)
Warnings: May be muddy in places.
Walk details: Visit Pewsey Vale (photos).
Bedwyn Circular via Marlborough
Ancient forest with veteran oaks and beeches, chalk plateau, rolling downland, dry and wet valleys, undulating pastures, landscaped parkland, river meadows, dismantled railway line and historic market town.
Time: 9h (7h walking, 1h30 lunch, 30m break)
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Kintbury to Bedwyn
Quiet woods and pastures, long open ridge with panoramic views, forest walk and canalside village.
Time: 8h30 (6h30 walking, 1h30 lunch, 30m break)
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Bedwyn to Pewsey
Magnificent views. Canal towpath and with moderate climbs. Part of the Mid Wiltshire Way.
Time: 7h (5h walking, 1h30 lunch, 30m break)
Walk details: Railwalks.
Bedwyn to Hungerford
A flat, easy canal towpath walk, mostly dry and firm underfoot but with some seasonal mud after wet weather; one short section can be especially bad. Some uneven ground and kissing gates and a narrow bridge. Railway stations at both ends make it an easy there-and-back by train.
Waterway: nine tenths along the Kennet and Avon Canal.
Time: 3h30 (2h walking, 1h30 lunch)
Lunch: A cafe in Great Bedwyn, but it closes at 3pm.
Warnings: A railway crossing and a section of road through Great Bedwyn with no pavement, though traffic is light.
Walk details: Slow Ways.