This list includes walks which may be reached (in whole or in part) by rail from Birmingham stations (Moor Street, New Street and Snow Hill).
Routes
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Brampton Valley Way
Length <60km
Max transport gap <10km
A 23km route on the trackbed of the railway between Chapel Brampton and Little Bowden.
Centenary Way (Warwickshire)
Length >60km
Max transport gap <20km
A walk of 161km between Kingsbury Water Park and Upper Quinton.
Image: the route crosses the Grand Union Canal near Ufton.
Chiltern Railway Walk
Length >60km
Max transport gap > 30km
A 288km walk between London Marylebone and Kidderminster.
Image: Denham
Grand Union Canal Walk
Length >60km
Max transport gap <20km
A 227km walk along the towpath of the canal between the River Thames at Brentford and Birmingham’s famous Gas Street Basin.
Image: Norwood Green
Heart of England Way
Length >60km
Max transport gap <20km
A 166km walk between Milford (in Staffordshire) and Bourton-on-the-Water.
Image: Baddesley Clinton manor
Kidsgrove to Stoke Ridgeway
Length <20km
Max transport gap <20km
A 14km walk between Kidsgrove and Stoke-on-Trent.
Leicestershire Round
Length >60km
Max transport gap <20km
A 167km circuit in Leicestershire taking in Burrough Hill, Frolesworth, Mountsorrel and Frisby-on-the-Wreake.
Midshires Way
Length >60km
Max transport gap >20km
A 361km walk between Princes Risborough and Stockport.
Millennium Way
Length >60km
Max transport gap >20km
A walk of 168km between Middleton Cheney and Pershore, via Meriden.
Monarch’s Way
Length >60km
Max transport gap > 30km
A 936km walk between Worcester and Southwick, following the route taken (following the Battle of Worcester) by King Charles I (1600-49).
Image: Charles I, after Anthony Van Dyck
(public domain)
National Forest Way
Length >60km
Max transport gap <20km
A walk of 120km through the area of the National Forest between Beacon Hill (Charnwood) and the National Memorial Arboretum at Alrewas.
Image: The Old Man of Charnwood
North Worcestershire Path
Length >60km
Max transport gap <20km
A 60km walk between the Birmingham suburb of Shirley and the Severnside town of Bewdley.
Oxford Canal Path
Length >60km
Max transport gap >20km
A walk of 129km between Oxford and Hawkesbury Junction, on the north-eastern tip of Coventry.
Image: Braunston Junction, where the Oxford Canal (right) meets the Grand Union Canal
Shakespeare’s Avon Way
Length >60km
Max transport gap >20km
A walk of 151km following the Warwickshire Avon from its source at Naseby to its outflow into the Severn at Tewkesbury.
Shakespeare’s Way
Length >60km
Max transport gap >20km
A 288km walk between Stratford-upon-Avon and the Globe Theatre in Southwark, commemorating the life of William Shakespeare (1564-1616), poet and playwright.
Image: First Folio, engraving by Martin Droeshout
(public domain)
Shropshire Way
Length >60km
Max transport gap > 30km
A 296km walk around Shropshire (plus a couple of fields in Wales).
Shropshire Way: Haughmond link
Length <20km
Max transport gap <20km
A walk of 8km, linking Haughmond and Shrewsbury.
Worcestershire Way
Length <60km
Max transport gap <20km
A 50km walk between Bewdley and Great Malvern.
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