Easy walks for the whole family

Hampshire Surrey Sussex

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Runnymede

Runnymede, the birthplace of modern democracy, is now a beautiful open space of meadows beside The River Thames. The area is managed by The National Trust and throughout the site, you can find various art installations and memorials. Riverside walks connect you to the pleasure grounds.

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Chantries

The Chantries or Chantry Wood, is a well known place to enjoy bluebells in Surrey and it isn’t hard to see why. The display here is breath-taking. Added to this, the elevated position of the wood means there is an option to take in viewpoints giving vistas across the Surrey Hills.

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Farnham Park

Farnham park is so much more than just a park. Despite being a moments walk from the town centre, you have have a real feeling of being in the countryside as you walk around this 600 year old deer park. Find streams, ponds, woodland, grassland, avenues, adventure play and even a free-to-enter castle keep.

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Every Ambling Path walk has a stand out feature that children will love including magnificent play areas, shallow rivers for paddling, epic country parks and ancient ruins to explore.

Covering two national parks and two national landscapes, our detailed guides have all the information you need to get the whole family out walking right away.

Browse over 200 walks! Use the map to find a walk near you, hit the main menu to find walks by feature, look inside our themed collections or just tap the search bar.

What’s new?

  • There have been some significant changes to the play trail at Alice Holt Forest. It now features six incredibly crafted marble run stations.

  • The cafe on this walk at Itchenor has a new look in time for spring. You can find it overlooking the boatyard and Chichester harbour National Landscape.

  • It was good to see that this path was back open again over the River Meon at Droxford. It looks like you were pleased too, as our reel of this walk has had 230, 000 views to date!

  • We usually do this walk at Soberton in the Meon Valley in the summer when we can picnic and paddle. The river was was too high to paddle, but food from the White Lion pub made up for this!

  • The ploughmans at The Royal Oak comes highly recommended, as does this walk in the surrounding New Forest which we recently updated.

  • Because everyone loves a refreshment stop on a walk, we have added directions for reaching a tea-room with a little play area to this walk at Iping Common near Midhurst.

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