Walks you can reach from Smethwick Rolfe Street by train
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Birmingham New Street to Kings Norton (Warwickshire)
7 minutes direct from Smethwick Rolfe Street.
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)
7 minutes direct from Smethwick Rolfe Street.
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).
Old Hill to Tipton (Staffordshire)
15 minutes direct from Smethwick Rolfe Street.
Wild and dramatic escarpment (Rowley Hills). Mostly along canal towpaths through suburban towns and villages. Walk celebrates William Perry, the 'Tipton Slasher', a renowned 19th-century bareknuckle boxer born in Tipton in 1819.
Time: 2h30–4h30
Warnings: Over two miles through dark Netherton Tunnel (option).
Walk details: Walk Midlands (tips, photos and local insights).
Wolverhampton to Coseley (Staffordshire)
15 minutes direct from Smethwick Rolfe Street.
Recommended: A level, well-surfaced canal towpath walk with no locks, easily wheeled and with a residential section at the Coseley end and pavement along a main road in central Wolverhampton. Can be a little overgrown in places in summer. Follows the Birmingham Canal towpath. Lots of waterfowl along the canal, including herons, mallards, swans, moorhens and coots. No facilities until the Wolverhampton end. Trains and buses at both ends.
Waterway: nine tenths along the Birmingham New Main Line Canal.
Time: 2h–3h30
Warnings: A quarter urban.
Walk details: Slow Ways.