We are the Mid Berks Ramblers. We open the way for everyone in our local community to enjoy the pleasures of walking.
A varied, semi-rural walk of around 5 ½ miles, mostly flat & along gravel & tarmac paths. An opportunity to see what is replacing the old Arborfield Garrison & walking along part of the “Greenway”, a motor-free route designed for walkers, cyclists and horse riders.
The 'Greenway' links Arborfield to Finchampstead via California Country Park, where we can stop to have coffee / early lunch at the Dream Cafe. We walk through the new SANGS (Suitable Accessible Natural Green Spaces) and the “Everglades”, around beautiful wildlife lakes, streams, sump and habitat ponds, through woods & water meadows along broad walks. We’ll see a reptile hibivarium and a bat barn and some of the refurbished stables used during the Boer & First World Wars when the Garrison was a horse hospital.
Park on Princess Marina Drive (Off Biggs Lane at the roundabout opposite where the old Garrison entry gates used to be). The No 3 bus from both Reading & Wokingham stops here.
