Walks you can reach from Tile Hill by train
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Alternatively, view walks directly from Tile Hill.
Berkswell Circular (Warwickshire)
3 minutes direct from Tile Hill.
Coventry Circular (Warwickshire)
6 minutes direct from Tile Hill.
Hampton-in-Arden Circular (Warwickshire)
7 minutes direct from Tile Hill.
Tarmac village lanes, river crossing and nature reserve paths.
Time: 1h30
Walk details: Heart Rail Trails (PDF).
Rugby Circular (Warwickshire)
15 minutes direct from Tile Hill.
Berkswell to Solihull (Warwickshire)
3 minutes direct from Tile Hill.
Surprisingly expansive landscape. Rural and suburban with boardwalks, fields, woodland, canal towpath and residential streets. Walk crosses the Meridian Gap from Berkswell to Solihull, West Midlands' largest town, functioning as an affluent dormitory suburb of Birmingham.
Time: 3h–5h30
Warnings: Follows a busy road for a sixth of the walk. Muddy woodland path; pavement peters out near Hampton-in-Arden with tight bends.
Walk details: Walk Midlands (tips, photos and local insights).
Canley to Coventry (Warwickshire)
3 minutes direct from Tile Hill.
Nature reserve, parkland and suburban green corridor.
Time: 1h30
Walk details: Heart Rail Trails (PDF).
Coventry to Berkswell (Warwickshire)
6 minutes direct from Tile Hill.
Picturesque village. Urban, suburban and then rural. Walk traverses Coventry's historic common land including Hearsall Common and Tilehill Wood, medieval survivals preserved in the 1920s, before reaching Berkswell in the Meridian Gap.
Time: 2h30–5h30
Warnings: A third urban. Muddy sections possible.
Walk details: Walk Midlands (tips, photos and local insights).
Birmingham International to Marston Green (Warwickshire)
15 minutes direct from Tile Hill.
Brookside paths, oak woodland, wildflower meadow, wetlands and parkland.
Time: 1h30
Walk details: Heart Rail Trails (PDF).
Birmingham New Street to Kings Norton (Warwickshire)
30 minutes direct from Tile Hill.
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)
30 minutes direct from Tile Hill.
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 Tile Hill.
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 Tile Hill.
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).