Walks from Warminster

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

Time: 9h (7h walking, 1h30 lunch, 30m break)

Warnings: MOD closures apply.

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

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

Prior Park Landscape Garden (National Trust; 6h30 in)

Time: 10h (7h30 walking, 1h30 lunch, 1h break)

Walk details: Railwalks.

Fabulous walking through interesting places and with some lovely views. Wonderful varied walking on back lanes, field paths and well-used dirt tracks and climbing onto the chalk plain for lovely views. A short steep climb out of Fonthill Gifford; a muddy bridleway through Eastleigh Woods toward Warminster (a drier signposted alternative exists).

Time: 8h30 (6h30 walking, 1h30 lunch, 30m break)

Warnings: A stretch along the fast, relatively busy B3089 east of Hindon has no verge; the crossing of the A303 needs care and patience (sightlines are good).

Walk details: Slow Ways.

Long views. Hill and moorland paths with woodland and with moderate climbs.

Time: 4h (2h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)

Walk details: Railwalks.

Excellent views of Cley Hill. A generally pleasant route following the River Frome, then open countryside on field tracks and quiet roads with crops and before a final 1.75-mile stretch along pavements beside a busy road into Warminster. Excellent views of Cley Hill; a couple of fields are easier to walk round the boundary than across.

Cley Hill (National Trust)

Time: 5h (3h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)

Warnings: Cattle and 'Beware of the Bull' signs in some fields. Care needed crossing the busy two-lane A361. The footpath has been rerouted around Heath House Farm, which can cause confusion.

Walk details: Slow Ways.