Walks you can reach from Perry Barr by train
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Birmingham New Street to Kings Norton (Warwickshire)
15 minutes direct from Perry Barr.
Canal towpath (Worcester and Birmingham Canal). Kings Norton was site of a 1642 English Civil War battle.
Waterway: nine tenths along the Worcester & Birmingham Canal.
Time: 2h30–5h
Walk details: Walk Midlands (tips, photos and local insights).
Birmingham New Street to Bournville (Warwickshire)
15 minutes direct from Perry Barr.
Canal towpath, urban paths and suburban streets. Walk along the Worcester-Birmingham Canal from city centre to Cadbury's model village.
Waterway: four fifths along the Worcester & Birmingham Canal.
Time: 2h–4h
Walk details: Walk Midlands (tips, photos and local insights).
Walsall to Cannock (Staffordshire)
15 minutes direct from Perry Barr.
Remarkable survivals (Pelsall and Pelsall North Common). Greenway paths, common land, woodland and field edges. Former mining country with industrial heritage; route follows McClean Way greenway on former South Staffordshire Railway.
Time: 4h–8h
Warnings: Follows a busy road for a sixth of the walk. Barbed wire fencing; complicated road sections with M6 Toll crossing.
Walk details: Walk Midlands (tips, photos and local insights).
Black Lake to Walsall
15 minutes direct from Perry Barr.
Canal towpaths throughout — rough track, grassy banks, tarmac sections — passing under multiple road and rail and motorway bridges. Follows the Ridgacre Branch Canal, joins the Walsall Canal, and finishes at the canal basin beside the New Art Gallery in Walsall town centre.
Waterway: almost all along the Walsall Canal.
Time: 3h30–6h30
Warnings: One dismantled footbridge requires a small detour via lockgate or road-bridge gap.
Walk details: Walk Midlands (tips, photos and local insights).