Walk from Coventry Railway Station the short distance to the Grade II*, park like, Coventry Road Cemetery designed by Joseph Paxton famed for later being the architect of the Crystal Palace. Continue reading Coventry – London Road Cemetery
Walk from the heart of Worcester across the River Severn and River Teme and through the grounds of Madresfield Court a house with connections to both Evelyn Waugh and Charles Dickens, ending in Great Malvern. Continue reading Worcester – Madresfield
Walk from central Birmingham to the historic Selly Manor and Minworth Greaves with medieval origins in Bournville, mostly along the Worcester and Birmingham Canal. Continue reading Birmingham – Selly Manor
Circular walk in the suburbs of Northampton starting from the town’s railway station and heading to Hunsbury Hill Country Park, a deeply historic site, where a significant Iron Age hillfort at the heart of a Victorian controversy, lies. Continue reading Northampton – Hunsbury Hill
Railway-station-to-railway-station walk from Longbridge to Wood End tracing the line of the Midlands Watershed Ridge where it runs along the lip of the Birmingham Plateau. Continue reading Longbridge – Wood End
Walk along the tallest part of the Midlands Watershed Ridge, the Waseley Hills and the north western end of the Lickey Hills, to Longbridge via the site of the Worcestershire part of the old Austin Rover factory. Continue reading Frankley – Longbridge
Walk along the first rural stretch of the southern part of the Midlands Watershed with panoramic views across north Worcestershire towards Clent, and the Shropshire hills, including The Wrekin; beyond. Continue reading Kitwell – Frankley
Walk across the south west Staffordshire countryside from Wombourne via the unusual survivial that is Penn Common, up the Midlands Watershed Ridge to the Black Country town of Sedgley. Continue reading Wombourne – Sedgley
Walk from the centre of Walsall into former mining country along the McClean Way greenway, and across the remarkable surivivals that are Pelsall and Pelsall North Common, before crossing the Staffordshire countryside to reach Cannock. Continue reading Walsall – Cannock
Walk from Oldbury, following the Midlands Watershed Ridge (the most visible expression of the divide between the Severn and Trent catchment areas) through the Black Country and Woodgate Valley to the Kit’s Well the only river flowing into the Severn rising inside Birmingham. Continue reading Oldbury – Kitswell
