Walks you can reach from Bradford-on-Avon by train

Highly recommended

Old Sarum Ruins (1h in)

Stonehenge (4h30 in)

Stonehenge Landscape: A World Heritage Site famous for its ancient ceremonial landscape of great archaeological interest, set in over 800 hectares of chalk grassland (National Trust; 4h30 in).

1 lunch spot: the Bridge Inn (2h30 in; excellent)

Warnings: Have lunch a café or pub next to the river. Return from Stonehenge to Salisbury by bus (very frequent & reliable but check times).

Adapted from: The Rough Guide to Walks in London & the South East (3rd edition).

Disused railway path, tunnels, viaducts, canal towpath, river and historic city centre.

Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).

South Somerset pastures, wooded ridge forming the Wiltshire/Somerset boundary, hanging woods, landscaped estate gardens with lakeside walks, grassy U-shaped valley and honey-coloured stone-built town.

Stourhead: Palladian house and world-famous landscape garden (National Trust; 4h to visit).

Stourhead Estate: Palladian house and world-famous landscape garden (National Trust; 4h to visit).

1 lunch spot: Stourhead restaurant

Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).

Chalk downland, Iron Age hillforts, five hills, Salisbury Plain military range, abandoned village and sweeping views over Wiltshire and Somerset.

Warnings: MOD closures apply.

Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).

Recommended: A great walk. A great walk with a good variety of open fields, woodland, stony tracks and a disused-railway cycle track and with very little on roads. Muddy at some points; a very steep climb with steps from the cycle track up to Combe Down if walked from Frome.

Hilly: a quarter on high ground, rising above the surrounding land.

Woodland: a fifth under tree cover.

Prior Park Landscape Garden: Beautiful and intimate 18th-century landscape garden in Bath with one of only four Palladian bridges found in the world (National Trust; 1h30 to visit).

Lunch: A pub at Norton St Philip, mid-route, makes a good coffee stop.

Warnings: A very steep climb with steps from the cycle track up to Combe Down.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

Recommended: A long, wheelchair- and pushchair-friendly route that is largely Kennet & Avon Canal towpath, with pavement out of Bath and into Melksham. Avoids the stiles, fields and crops and livestock of the shorter cross-country alternatives.

Waterway: nine tenths along the Kennet and Avon Canal.

Bath Skyline: Wide open space overlooking the World Heritage City of Bath (National Trust).

Bathampton Meadows: Green corridor linking the historic city of Bath to the countryside (National Trust).

Lunch: Bradford on Avon at the mid-point has multiple pubs, restaurants and facilities.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

Recommended: A largely off-road route using the River Avon Trail and the well-maintained Bristol & Bath Railway Path (Sustrans Cycle Route 4), flat, smooth and scenic, with extensive tree shade in summer. The first part out of Keynsham, before the cycle path, has kissing gates and a cattle grid and can be muddy. Follows Sustrans National Cycle Route 4; passes Avon Riverside station on the Avon Valley Railway.

Waterway: two thirds along the River Avon.

Woodland: a third under tree cover.

1 lunch spot: the Bird in Hand

Warnings: The Bristol & Bath Railway Path is a very busy cycle and jogging route — cyclists can pass at speed. The Keynsham end has five kissing gates and muddy ground.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

Beautiful walk; fantastic. Canal towpath with fields.

Prior Park Landscape Garden: Beautiful and intimate 18th-century landscape garden in Bath with one of only four Palladian bridges found in the world (National Trust; 1h30 to visit).

Bath Skyline: Wide open space overlooking the World Heritage City of Bath (National Trust).

1 lunch spot: Prior Park Landscape Garden kiosk

Warnings: Short stretch on a fast-traffic road with limited verge.

Walk details: Railwalks.

Long views. Hill and moorland paths and with substantial climbs.

Prior Park Landscape Garden: Beautiful and intimate 18th-century landscape garden in Bath with one of only four Palladian bridges found in the world (National Trust; 6h30 in; 1h30 to visit).

1 lunch spot: Prior Park Landscape Garden kiosk (6h30 in)

Walk details: Railwalks.

An excellent route; Delightful route; lovely start and end points. A long route with very little road walking (and only minor roads), much of it on forest tracks through managed woodland, taking in several nature reserves and a National Trust estate. Easy walking for the most part, a little gooey in places after heavy rain and with a few gates and some stiles; the main challenge is the length. Passes through Bentley Wood nature reserve and at least two other nature reserves, and takes in the National Trust's Mottisfont estate. Can be shortened by jumping on the train one stop from Dunbridge to Romsey.

Woodland: two fifths under tree cover.

Mompesson House: Homely and welcoming 18th-century townhouse in the heart of Salisbury's Cathedral Close (National Trust; 1h to visit).

Mottisfont Abbey & Gardens: A romantic house and gallery set in beautiful riverside gardens (National Trust; 3h to visit).

2 lunch spots: Mompesson House tearoom, or Mottisfont Abbey & Gardens café

Warnings: The approach to Romsey crosses an active gravel pit between Awbridge and Squabb Wood, which can require diversions, and the lower end of Squabb Wood can be very wet and difficult in winter.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

Beautiful; picturesque. Riverside path and flat and easy-going.

Hilly: a quarter on high ground, rising above the surrounding land.

Woodland: a third under tree cover.

Mompesson House: Homely and welcoming 18th-century townhouse in the heart of Salisbury's Cathedral Close (National Trust; 6h30 in; 1h to visit).

1 lunch spot: Mompesson House tearoom (6h30 in)

Walk details: Railwalks.

Pleasant. Canal towpath with fields and with moderate climbs.

Walk details: Railwalks.