Best walks to or from Walsall
Staffordshire · West Midlands of England | Walks by train
MapBeautiful walks starting or ending at Walsall Station.
Walsall Station to Cannock Station
15km.
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. Barbed wire fencing; complicated road sections with M6 Toll crossing.
Documented by Walk Midlands — download GPX route
Black Lake Station to Walsall Station
12km.
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. One dismantled footbridge requires a small detour via lockgate or road-bridge gap.