Walks near Warwick by train
Stations: Warwick Parkway · Warwick
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Wendover to Princes Risborough (Buckinghamshire)
1 hour direct from Warwick.
Highly recommended: Really beautiful rolling woodlands with a cosy family-run pub lunch and a saunter through Chequers. Mostly secluded.
Hilly: two fifths on high ground, rising above the surrounding land.
Woodland: two fifths under tree cover.
View of Chequers (2h in)
2 lunch spots: Buckmoorend Farm Shop (1h45 in; outdoor seating and light meals only, e.g. burgers, sausage rolls, ice cream, hot drinks), but really high quality!), or the Swan (2h45 in; cosy old family-run pub with great food)
1 end-of-walk reward: the Bird in Hand
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Adapted from: Time Out Country Walks Volume 1.
Similar walk: the Saturday Walkers Club.
Princes Risborough Circular via Ninn Wood (Buckinghamshire)
1 hour direct from Warwick.
Recommended
Hilly: a quarter on high ground, rising above the surrounding land.
Woodland: two fifths under tree cover.
1 lunch spot: the Black Horse (1h30 in)
2 end-of-walk rewards: Wheat Field, or the Bird in Hand
Source: Trains2Green.
Oxford Circular via Port Meadow (Oxfordshire)
45 minutes from Warwick, with one change.
Flat riverside towpaths, water meadows, canal towpath, Oxford city streets, college lanes and historic squares.
Pitt Rivers Museum (2h45 in)
Oxford (3h15 in)
4 lunch spots: Wolvercote (1h15 in) — the Trout Inn, Godstow, or the Jacob's Inn; plus the Perch (30 mins in), or the Anchor (2h in)
8 end-of-walk rewards: the Lamb & Flag, Oxford, the Red Lion, the Turf Tavern, the Bear, the Crown, the Royal Blenheim, the Castle Pub, or the Jolly Farmers
Warnings: Two fifths urban. Can be flooded.
Adapted from: Time Out Country Walks Volume 1.
Similar walk: the Saturday Walkers Club.
Nuneaton Circular via Hartshill (Warwickshire)
45 minutes from Warwick, with one change.
Parks, river, country park and canal.
Woodland: a quarter under tree cover.
1 lunch spot: the Stag and Pheasant (2h in)
5 end-of-walk rewards: the Lord Hop, the Felix Holt, the George Eliot Hotel, the Black Swan In Hand, or the Silk Mill
Adapted from: the Leicester Ramblers.
High Wycombe Circular via Hughenden (Buckinghamshire)
1 hour direct from Warwick.
Princes Risborough to Great Missenden (Buckinghamshire)
1 hour direct from Warwick.
Sloping fields, beech woods, hamlets, upmarket farms, cottages and two short steep hills with fine views.
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Honeybourne to Stratford-upon-Avon (Gloucestershire)
30 minutes direct from Warwick.
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.
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).
Alvechurch to Earlswood (Worcestershire)
45 minutes from Warwick, with one change.
Hilly north Worcestershire landscape. River Blythe rises near Earlswood Lakes.
Warnings: Cars travel fast on twisty road with no pavement; busy A435 dual carriageway crossing.
Walk details: Walk Midlands (tips, photos and local insights).
Leamington Spa Circular via Warwick (Warwickshire)
4 minutes direct from Warwick.
Lapworth Circular (Warwickshire)
9 minutes direct from Warwick Parkway.
Rural countryside paths and canal towpath past lock flight.
Walk details: Heart Rail Trails (PDF).
Dorridge Circular via Packwood House (Warwickshire)
15 minutes direct from Warwick Parkway.
Quintessential English country house. Countryside; partly along the Grand Union Canal towpath. Packwood House is a 16th-century half-timbered manor house extensively reimagined in 1920s by Baron Ash; gifted to National Trust in 1941.
Packwood House: Much-restored Tudor house, park and garden with notable topiary (National Trust; 2h to visit).
Baddesley Clinton: Discover a secluded, intimate estate set in the heart of the Forest of Arden with 500 years of fascinating and unexpected stories (National Trust; 2h30 to visit).
2 lunch spots: dorridge — Packwood House café, or Baddesley Clinton café
Warnings: Fairly busy road; muddy field conditions.
Walk details: Walk Midlands (tips, photos and local insights).
Solihull Circular via Brueton Park (Warwickshire)
15 minutes direct from Warwick Parkway.
Town centre, parks, ornamental gardens, lake, River Blythe, woodland and open fields.
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Walk details: Heart Rail Trails (PDF).