Walks you can reach from Earlswood by train
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Honeybourne to Stratford-upon-Avon (Gloucestershire)
30 minutes direct from Earlswood.
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).
Wood End Circular (Warwickshire)
5 minutes direct from Earlswood.
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).
Danzey Circular (Warwickshire)
9 minutes direct from Earlswood.
Farmland, woodland and rural lanes.
Time: 1h30
Warnings: Request stop; no facilities on trail, bring provisions.
Walk details: Heart Rail Trails (PDF).
Henley-in-Arden Circular via Henley-in-Arden Guildhall (Warwickshire)
15 minutes direct from Earlswood.
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).
Stratford-upon-Avon Circular (Warwickshire)
30 minutes direct from Earlswood.
Wythall to Longbridge (Worcestershire)
3 minutes direct from Earlswood.
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).
Wythall to Shirley (Worcestershire)
3 minutes direct from Earlswood.
Pasture and meadow paths through suburban-fringe countryside.
Time: 1h30
Walk details: Heart Rail Trails (PDF).
Whitlocks End to Birmingham Moor Street (Warwickshire)
5 minutes direct from Earlswood.
Towpaths and river banks. Urban walk tracing Birmingham's waterpower heritage from suburbs to city center.
Warnings: Busy roads to cross; low bridges on canal sections.
Walk details: Walk Midlands (tips, photos and local insights).
Wood End to Dorridge (Warwickshire)
5 minutes direct from Earlswood.
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).
Whitlocks End to Shirley (Warwickshire)
5 minutes direct from Earlswood.
Farmland field paths, canal towpath and Christmas tree plantation.
Time: 1h
Walk details: Heart Rail Trails (PDF).
Shirley to The Lakes (Warwickshire)
8 minutes direct from Earlswood.
Canal towpath, Christmas tree plantations, farmland, forest and lakeside paths.
Time: 3h
Warnings: Trip hazard: anchored cable.
Walk details: Heart Rail Trails (PDF).
Henley-in-Arden to Stratford-upon-Avon (Warwickshire)
15 minutes direct from Earlswood.
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).