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Walking through Cannock Chase, one of the many delight places to walk in the Midlands
| While the Midlands are not instantly recognisable as a walking destination there are many places where walking can be a real pleasure. For a start there are many places of outstanding beauty such as Cannock Chase, Arden, The Mease, Charnwood Forest, The Fens, The Leicestershire & Nottinghamshire Wolds, The Lincolnshire Wolds, The Trent Valley, The Potteries, The Cheshire & Shropshire Plains, Staffordshire and Sherwood Forest. In between there are many lovely countryside walks with quaint English towns and villages serving as havens for rest and refreshment before, during and after a walk. Through the efforts of guest contributors like Ken Brockway, Adam Gallimore and others and with a few of my much too infrequent efforts added I offer a selection of walks for Midlanders to enjoy on these pages. |
| The Walks: | ||
| Froghall, Foxt and Ipstones | A splendid walk of just under seven miles with much interest in rural Staffordshire. | |
| Ashby Folville, Thorpe Satchville and Twyford | A Leicestershire walk of nearly seven miles in old foxhunting country; thankfully quieter now for man and beast. | |
| Fulbeck and Caythorpe | A short walk of five miles which visits two quaint Lincolnshire villages. | |
| Great Haywood & Cannock Chase | A six mile walk which includes Shugborough Hall, some nice hills, lovely woodland and with a finale along the River Trent. | |
| Kimberley, Awsworth & Babbington | At just over six miles, a gem of a walk between Ilkeston and Nottingham, to rural haven from urban sprawl. | |
| King's Cliffe and Apethorpe | A walk of just under eight miles in Northamptonshire with a dismantle railway walk and a memorial to Glenn Miller. | |
| A rural walk near to Belvoir Castle | A circular tour of 21 miles around the Duke of Rutland's ancestral home, Belvoir Castle. | |
| Hunting Walk from Nether Broughton to Old Dalby | A short and relatively easy circular walk of eight miles on the Notts & Leicestershire boundary. | |
| Ticknall and Calke Park | A nice easy day walk of seven miles for anytime of the year from Ticknall, south of Derby. | |
| Alrewas and Yoxall Two Rivers | Rural Staffordshire 8 mile walk, 2 rivers, along the Way for the Millennium, two pretty villages and Trent & Mersey canal. | |
| Church Stretton to Shrewsbury | A wonderful eighteen mile linear walk through the delights of the Shropshire countryside. | |
| Bottesford to Grantham (along Grantham Canal) | A nine miles linear rural walk between county boundaries from Leicestershire into Lincolnshire. | |
| Leicestershire Villages | A north Leicestershire villages exploration of thirteen and a half miles of Allexton, Hallaton, Medbourne and Blaston. | |
| Rutland Water, Greetham & Exton | A eleven and half mile country walk in evocative Rutlandshire from Rutland Water to Greetham and Exton. | |
| Repton, Capital of Mercia | An eight mile south Derbyshire walk over ancient ground to a place of modern learning. | |
| Barlaston and Wedgwood Pottery | A six mile walk south of Stoke in the heart of Potteries country with an optional visit to an iconic pottery factory. | |
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