For when you just haven’t got much time
Sadly, life can’t all be rucksacks and long hikes. Indeed, although we love to get away from it all, the majority of our walking is done in a few hours at weekends. So, for the occasions when you only have a bit of time available, here are some ideas for short walks. Currently they range from 4 miles to 12 miles, with a ‘short long walk’ of 33 miles soon to be thrown in for good measure – the Basingstoke Canal towpath. Our first planned update to this section, it breaks down into convenient stages, it has great transport links, lots of interest and more peace and quiet than you would have thought possible so near to big towns. We, er, just need to finish walking it…
In this section:
- Hitchin Outer Orbital Path (HOOP)
- HOOP stage one: Market Place to Old Westmill
- HOOP photo gallery 1a: Market Place to Oughton Head
- HOOP photo gallery 1b: Oughton Head to Old Westmill
- HOOP stage two: Old Westmill to Wilbury Hills
- HOOP photo gallery 2a: Old Westmill to Ickleford
- HOOP photo gallery 2b: Ickleford to Wilbury Hills
- HOOP stage three: Wilbury Hills to Wymondley Road
- HOOP photo gallery 3a: Wilbury Hills to the Cambridge Road
- HOOP photo gallery 3b: the Cambridge Road to Purwell
- HOOP photo gallery 3c: Purwell to Wymondley Road
- HOOP stage four: Wymondley Road to the Market Place
- HOOP photo gallery 4a: Wymondley Road to Charlton
- HOOP photo gallery 4b: Charlton to the Market Place
- The Letchworth Garden City Greenway
- South Coast – Climping and Littlehampton
- West Penwith – St Michael’s Way
- The Basingstoke Canal
- London: Holborn and Bloomsbury