Walks you can reach from Danzey by train
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Alvechurch to Earlswood (Worcestershire)
9 minutes direct from Danzey.
Hilly north Worcestershire landscape. River Blythe rises near Earlswood Lakes.
Time: 2h30–5h
Warnings: Cars travel fast on twisty road with no pavement; busy A435 dual carriageway crossing.
Walk details: Walk Midlands (tips, photos and local insights).
Honeybourne to Stratford-upon-Avon (Gloucestershire)
30 minutes direct from Danzey.
Beautiful line through the northern Cotswolds. Trackbed of old railway line, fields, roads through villages and flat greenway. Route follows the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway from 1859, closed for passenger services in 1968-1969, finally closed in 1976. Now a greenway.
Time: 4h–7h30
Warnings: First section still in use for goods traffic; moderately busy road between Pebworth and Long Marston.
Walk details: Walk Midlands (tips, photos and local insights).
Henley-in-Arden Circular via Henley-in-Arden Guildhall (Warwickshire)
4 minutes direct from Danzey.
Historic high street, farmland, Millennium Way, rural lanes, fields and woodland edges.
Time: 2h30
Warnings: Can be overgrown summer.
Walk details: Heart Rail Trails (PDF).
Wood End Circular (Warwickshire)
4 minutes direct from Danzey.
Warwickshire countryside paths, village lanes and river crossing.
Time: 1h
Warnings: Request stop; no shops in Wood End or Tanworth, stock up before arriving.
Walk details: Heart Rail Trails (PDF).
Stratford-upon-Avon Circular (Warwickshire)
30 minutes direct from Danzey.
Henley-in-Arden to Stratford-upon-Avon (Warwickshire)
4 minutes direct from Danzey.
Countryside walk across fields and canal towpath; gently hilly and wooded. Walk connects two 12th-century market towns via the 1816 Stratford-upon-Avon Canal, ending at Shakespeare's birthplace.
Waterway: nine tenths along the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal.
Woodland: a quarter under tree cover.
Time: 4h–7h30
Walk details: Walk Midlands (tips, photos and local insights).
Henley-in-Arden to Warwick (Warwickshire)
4 minutes direct from Danzey.
Impressively deep cutting (canal near Hatton). Warwickshire countryside and Grand Union Canal towpath; gently wooded. Medieval market town of Henley-in-Arden founded 13th century; Warwick is Warwickshire's county town. Route traverses remnants of Forest of Arden with ancient hedgerows from 16th century.
Woodland: a fifth under tree cover.
Time: 4h30–9h
Warnings: Path can be churned up and muddy; M40 motorway traffic; traffic on country lanes.
Walk details: Walk Midlands (tips, photos and local insights).
Wood End to Dorridge (Warwickshire)
4 minutes direct from Danzey.
Umberslade Estate features a manor house built 1695-1700 and the Umberslade Obelisk constructed in 1749 by the 1st Baron Archer.
Woodland: a fifth under tree cover.
Time: 2h30–5h
Walk details: Walk Midlands (tips, photos and local insights).
The Lakes to Earlswood (Warwickshire)
6 minutes direct from Danzey.
Reservoir-side paths and woodland tracks through nature reserve.
Time: 2h
Walk details: Heart Rail Trails (PDF).
Wootton Wawen to Wilmcote (Warwickshire)
8 minutes direct from Danzey.
Canal towpath, aqueduct, open fields, hedgerows and working farm.
Time: 2h30
Warnings: Can be boggy/muddy.
Walk details: Heart Rail Trails (PDF).
Earlswood to Wythall (Warwickshire)
9 minutes direct from Danzey.
Farmland, heathland, woodland, wet meadow, golf-course edge and river crossing.
Time: 1h
Walk details: Heart Rail Trails (PDF).
Wythall to Longbridge (Worcestershire)
15 minutes direct from Danzey.
Rural with woodland, fields and suburban areas. Walk traces River Cole source on Severn-Trent watershed; passes moated medieval farmhouse; passes Shire Country Park.
Time: 2h30–5h
Warnings: Busy main roads; muddy footpath sections.
Walk details: Walk Midlands (tips, photos and local insights).