Walks you can reach from Rowley Regis 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.

Time: 5h

Warnings: Steep descents.

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

Reverse direction: Railwalks (inc. GPX).

Droitwich Canal constructed in 1771 to transport salt to River Severn; fully restored and reopened in 2011.

Waterway: three quarters along the Droitwich Barge Canal.

Time: 3h30–7h30

Warnings: Riverside path may be fenced off during repair works.

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

Reverse direction: Worcestershire Community Rail Partnership (PDF, inc. GPX) and Slow Ways (inc. GPX).

Parkland and field paths past lakes and fishing ponds.

Time: 3h–6h

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

Walk details: Worcestershire Community Rail Partnership (PDF).

Picturesque and historically rich. Riverside paths, fields, woodland and urban approaches. Walk traversing two rivers to reach a Victorian spa town beneath iconic hills.

Time: 4h30–9h

Warnings: Muddy sections; multiple gates.

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

Reverse direction: Worcestershire Community Rail Partnership (PDF, inc. GPX) and Slow Ways (inc. GPX).

Mostly along canal towpaths with field paths and road sections. Walk through mid-Worcestershire from Bromsgrove to Droitwich Spa, tracing salt industry heritage and Victorian spa development via canal routes. Droitwich is a town literally constructed on salt.

Waterway: four fifths along the Worcester & Birmingham Canal.

Time: 3h–6h30

Warnings: Be careful of fast-moving cars on lane; towpath muddy in places.

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

Reverse direction: Worcestershire Community Rail Partnership (PDF, inc. GPX) and Railwalks (inc. GPX).

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

Time: 3h

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.

Time: 2h–4h

Warnings: Fairly busy road; muddy field conditions.

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

Rolling farmland, Grand Union Canal towpath, woodland and farm tracks.

Time: 2h30

Warnings: Busy A road crossing.

Walk details: Heart Rail Trails (PDF).

Walk details: Rail Rambles.

Wild and dramatic escarpment (Rowley Hills). Mostly along canal towpaths through suburban towns and villages. Walk celebrates William Perry, the 'Tipton Slasher', a renowned 19th-century bareknuckle boxer born in Tipton in 1819.

Time: 2h30–4h30

Warnings: Over two miles through dark Netherton Tunnel (option).

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

Dramatic and beautiful edge (Kinver Edge). Hilly, wooded, red sandstone landscape and largely along canal towpaths. Walk traverses three counties across a landscape shaped by 17th-century glass, brick, and pottery industries powered by coal from nearby collieries.

Waterway: nine tenths along the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal.

Woodland: two fifths under tree cover.

Time: 5h–10h30

Warnings: Roundabout crossing in Kidderminster requires use of subways.

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

Golf-course and field paths into rolling, wooded countryside dotted with ponds.

Woodland: a quarter under tree cover.

Time: 2h–4h30

Walk details: Worcestershire Community Rail Partnership (PDF).