Walks you can reach from Acocks Green by train

Ridge walk over North Worcestershire Hills, open hilltops, scrubland, gorse, woods, pastures, motorway bridge crossing, country parks and heathland with bilberry and heather.

Warnings: Steep descents.

Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).

Reverse direction: Railwalks (inc. GPX).

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).

Similar walk: Slow Ways (inc. GPX).

Parkland and field paths past lakes and fishing ponds.

End-of-walk reward: A pub and brewery at Hartlebury near the end.

Walk details: Worcestershire Community Rail Partnership (PDF).

Town centre, parks, ornamental gardens, lake, River Blythe, woodland and open fields.

Warnings: Can be muddy.

Walk details: Heart Rail Trails (PDF).

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).

Town-centre pavements and riverside paths.

Walk details: Heart Rail Trails (PDF).

Canal towpath, River Cole valley, country park, wetlands, grasslands, woodland, heath and urban paths.

Walk details: Heart Rail Trails (PDF).

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.

Warnings: Some low bridges requiring ducking; steep ramp at end.

Walk details: Walk Midlands (tips, photos and local insights).

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: Experience 200 years of working people's lives in the heart of Birmingham (National Trust; 1h30 to visit).

Walk details: Walk Midlands (tips, photos and local insights).

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: Experience 200 years of working people's lives in the heart of Birmingham (National Trust; 1h30 to visit).

Walk details: Walk Midlands (tips, photos and local insights).

Suburban footways, countryside paths and river crossing.

Walk details: Heart Rail Trails (PDF).

Countryside; primarily along canal towpaths. Henley-in-Arden is a medieval new town founded early 13th century when the lord of Beaudesert Castle purchased a market charter.

Warnings: Busy road section near King's Arms Inn; fields can be muddy.

Walk details: Walk Midlands (tips, photos and local insights).