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: 3h30 (2h walking, 1h30 lunch)
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: 3h (1h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)
Walk details: Heart Rail Trails (PDF).
Coventry Circular (Warwickshire)
15 minutes direct from Berkswell.
City streets, canal basin and historic centre.
Time: 3h (1h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)
Walk details: Heart Rail Trails (PDF).
Rugby Circular (Warwickshire)
30 minutes direct from Berkswell.
Canal towpath, riverside path and village lanes.
Time: 3h (1h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)
Walk details: Heart Rail Trails (PDF).
Canley to Coventry (Warwickshire)
7 minutes direct from Berkswell.
Nature reserve, parkland and suburban green corridor.
Time: 3h (1h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)
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: 3h (1h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)
Walk details: Heart Rail Trails (PDF).
Birmingham 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.
Birmingham Back to Backs (National Trust)
Time: 4h (2h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)
Walk details: Walk Midlands (tips, photos and local insights).
Birmingham 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.
Birmingham Back to Backs (National Trust)
Time: 3h30 (2h walking, 1h30 lunch)
Walk details: Walk Midlands (tips, photos and local insights).
Solihull to Birmingham (Warwickshire)
15 minutes direct from Berkswell.
Mostly towpath along the Birmingham branch of the Grand Union Canal. Canal authorized in 1793 connecting Digbeth to Warwick; modernized in 1930s; freight traffic ceased by 1970s.
Waterway: four fifths along the Grand Union Canal.
Time: 5h (3h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)
Warnings: Some low bridges requiring ducking; steep ramp at end.
Walk details: Walk Midlands (tips, photos and local insights).
Whitlocks End to Birmingham (Warwickshire)
15 minutes direct from Berkswell.
Towpaths and river banks. Urban walk tracing Birmingham's waterpower heritage from suburbs to city center.
Time: 4h30 (3h walking, 1h30 lunch)
Warnings: Busy roads to cross; low bridges on canal sections.
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.
Time: 7h30 (6h walking, 1h30 lunch)
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: 10h (7h30 walking, 1h30 lunch, 1h break)
Warnings: Two unlit tunnels (Oxendon Tunnel and Kelmarsh Tunnel).
Walk details: Walk Midlands (tips, photos and local insights).