Easy walks for the whole family

Hampshire Surrey West Sussex

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Moors Valley Country Park

The play trail may only be a mile long, but expect it to take you a couple of hours to walk, for along the way are nine incredible wooden play structures that will enchant children of all ages. Moors Valley Country Park is right on the Hampshire/Dorset border and is host to an exceptional amount of forest attractions, most of which are free.

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Alice Holt Forest

Alice Holt Forest is an extremely popular location for a variety of outdoor pursuits from high ropes courses to mountain biking. For the littlest explorers, there are multiple woodland play areas and Forestry England regularly host trails here based around Julia Donaldson stories. New for 2023 is a Zog trail which is detailed in this guide.

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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.

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Our Collections

What’s new?

  • It was a welcome relief to go back to Wildhams Wood in West Sussex and see that the woodland had recovered from recent forestry work. The bluebells and wild garlic are blooming.

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  • If you are going to Crab Wood, near Winchester, to see the bluebells you can follow our circular walk and use new details about how to find a farm shop cafe nearby.

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  • What was once a linear walk at Breamore, has now become an absolute show stopper of a walk with bluebells, cafe, historic home, museum and miz-maze. This walk really shows the best of the English countryside.

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  • I have updated our bluebell walk at Stoke Park Wood, Bishopstoke, and it now includes a family friendly pub and an extra bluebell wood!

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  • A little change to this route at Whitchurch means you can now start it at the silk mill and pass a play area. This one has been really popular on our social media, so have a look and see why.

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  • Path improvements mean that this walk around the Chidham Peninsula in Chichester Harbour National Landscape can now be done at low or high tide.

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