Walks from Stafford
MapBeautiful walks starting or ending at Stafford Station.
Alternatively, view walks near Stafford by train.
Stone to Stafford
Boggy muddy ground at wetter times of year. Stafford Common is an unusually large surviving common land near a major Midlands centre with origins in medieval townland for grazing, protected by parliament 1839 and 1939.
Time: 3h30–7h30
Warnings: Comparatively busy road at Whitgreave; boggy ground when wet.
Walk details: Walk Midlands (tips, photos and local insights).
Penkridge to Stafford
Impressive views across southern and central Staffordshire landscape. Walk traverses Staffordshire countryside from Penkridge to Stafford via the ruins of a neo-gothic manor on the site of Stafford's medieval castle.
Time: 3h–6h
Warnings: Busy road near Penkridge; care crossing main roads near Stafford.
Walk details: Walk Midlands (tips, photos and local insights).
Stafford to Rugeley Town
A long, flat and easy route that is mostly off-road towpath, following the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal and then the Trent and Mersey Canal, with short stretches of riverside path, pavement and rough grassy track. Mostly a made-up surface, though some towpath sections are muddy and the riverside meadows can flood after heavy rain. Follows canal towpaths almost the whole way and can be split at intermediate points; passes near Shugborough Park. Trains and buses serve both ends.
Waterway: almost all beside rivers and canals.
Time: 5h–9h30
Lunch: A farm shop and cafe at Great Haywood Junction, plus pubs a short walk off the towpath at Little Haywood and Wolseley Bridge.
Warnings: The Sow Leisure Route and riverside flood meadows can be wet or flooded after heavy rain, sometimes needing detours, and there may be cattle in one short field section. One stile.
Walk details: Slow Ways.