Walks you can reach from Berkswell by train
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Tile Hill Circular (Warwickshire)
4 minutes direct from Berkswell.
Woodland paths and suburban footways through nature reserve.
Time: 2h
Walk details: Heart Rail Trails (PDF).
Hampton-in-Arden Circular (Warwickshire)
4 minutes direct from Berkswell.
Tarmac village lanes, river crossing and nature reserve paths.
Time: 1h30
Walk details: Heart Rail Trails (PDF).
Coventry Circular (Warwickshire)
15 minutes direct from Berkswell.
Rugby Circular (Warwickshire)
30 minutes direct from Berkswell.
Canley to Coventry (Warwickshire)
7 minutes direct from Berkswell.
Nature reserve, parkland and suburban green corridor.
Time: 1h30
Walk details: Heart Rail Trails (PDF).
Birmingham International to Marston Green (Warwickshire)
8 minutes direct from Berkswell.
Brookside paths, oak woodland, wildflower meadow, wetlands and parkland.
Time: 1h30
Walk details: Heart Rail Trails (PDF).
Birmingham New Street to Kings Norton (Warwickshire)
15 minutes direct from Berkswell.
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 Berkswell.
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).
Wellingborough to Northampton (Northamptonshire)
45 minutes direct from Berkswell.
Riverside paths along the Nene, meadows, quarry lakes, arable fields, villages, urban riverside, nature reserve and raised flood embankments.
Warnings: Prone to flooding.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Market Harborough to Northampton (Leicestershire)
45 minutes direct from Berkswell.
Rolling hills of the south east Midlands. Brampton Valley Way: former railway opened 1859, closed 1981, converted to multipurpose path in 1993; one of the longest ex-trackbed paths in the UK; runs through former ironstone quarrying area.
Time: 7h30–15h30
Warnings: Two unlit tunnels (Oxendon Tunnel and Kelmarsh Tunnel).
Walk details: Walk Midlands (tips, photos and local insights).
Wolverton to Northampton (Buckinghamshire)
45 minutes direct from Berkswell.
Fields, meadows, riverside cycle paths, medieval hunting forest, parkland, university campus and riverside town approach.
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).