Pretty much wherever you are in the Midlands there is an exhilarating ridge or hillcrest you can walk along and explore.
Here is a varied selection of some of the best doable without a car.
All of the Malverns
Ledbury – Malvern
A walk along one of the Midlands longest and most impressive ridges the Malverns. Starts just south of the Malverns in the Herefordshire town of Ledbury and ends having gone via the top of the Worcestershire Beavon in the middle of Great Malvern. Read more
Border Country
Wychbury Hill
An enigmatic, possibly sometimes errie, location righ on the boundary between the West Midlands metropolis and northern Worcestershire, the Severn and the Trent. Most infamously connected with a modern unsolved mystery and its folk memory, but a place of great significance for millennia. Read more
Seriously Edgy
Grindleford – Millthorpe
Spectacular views across the central Peak District from the gritstone edge high above the Derwent Valley between Grindleford and Baslow. Read more
Common Land
Long Mynd
Circular walk in the heart of the Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty from Church Stretton up and along the backbone of the commonly managed Long Mynd plateau. Read more
Southern Most Point of the Pennines
Ellastone – Waterhouses
Topping out at 371 metres above sea level the Weaver Hills on the edge of the Staffordshire Peak District is a short but substantial range of limestone hills. They are generally considered the southernmost point of the Pennines. Read more
West Midlands County Top
Turner’s Hill
Suburban walk in the Black Country up and over Turner’s Hill the highest point in West Midlands county. Turner’s Hill forms part of the Rowley Range, a substantial ridge visible for miles around in the western Black Country. Read more
Top Peak
Retrace the Kinder Scout Mass Trespass
Walk up and along the edge of Kinder Scout, the tallest summit in both the Peak District and the eastern Midlands. Famously the site of April 1932’s Mass Trespass of Kinder Scout, a Communist Party led protest for land access rights. Read more
Birmingham’s Ridge
Barnt Green – Rubery
A surprisingly technically challenging walk along the ridge of the Lickey Hills which divide suburban south Birmingham from (supposedly) more bucolic Worcestershire. Read more
Guarding the Midland’s Southern Boundary
Rainsborough Camp
Practically at the southwestern most tip of the Midlands, high above the Cherwell Valley, stands Rainsborough Camp a prehistoric hillfort on the brow of a Northamptonshire ridge. Read more
Hobbiton?
Stourbridge – Kinver
Just a few miles west of Stourbridge, out in the Staffordshire countryside, is Kinver Edge. A sandstone edge, famed for its natural beauty, nature reserve, impressive views and rock houses inhabited up until the 1960s. Read more
Peak Staffordshire
Cheeks Hill
Between Buxton and Flash (the highest village in the UK) lies Cheeks Hill which at 559 metres above sea level is the highest peak Staffordshire, and part of a towering Peak District ridge. Read more
On Ebrington Hill
Honeybourne – Ilmington
Walk from Honeybourne Railway station up Ebrington Hill, the county top of Warwickshire, and along the northern top of the Cotswold escarpment. Read more