A circular route through rolling North Hampshire countryside

Loddon Valley Group

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Overview

A circular route through rolling North Hampshire countryside walking through a Wallop, a Cannon Wood, Oak Hills and a variety of copses.

Sunday, 29 March 2026

Meeting time:: 9:00 am
Start time:: 10:00 am
Estimated finish time:: 3:15 pm

Difficulty:: Moderate
Distance:: 19.3km / 12.0mi
Ascent:: N/A
Type:: circular

Website:: https://www.lvra.org.uk/Webpages/walks.html

LVR advise walkers to use the following details. START: RG25 2QU (51.23081,-1.09199) ///during.bubble.plots, MEET: RG2 9EH (51.40458,-0.94626) ///feed.mostly.relay , CONTACT Leader: Richard H Phone: 0788 411 3491 (0118 988 4118)

Meeting point

Grid reference:: SU 73393 67811
Nearest postcode:: RG2 9EH
what3words:: feed.mostly.relay

Meeting time:: 9:00 am

School Green, Shinfield for car share.

Starting point

Grid reference:: SU 63496 48351
Nearest postcode:: RG25 2QU
what3words:: forget.body.jars

Start time:: 10:00 am

By the old school house just outside Cliddesden, Hants. Bring packed lunch. Please call leader(s) if meeting at the walk start.

Upcoming walks with Loddon Valley Group

Blow away the cobwebs and take to the hills above Streatley

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 12.0 miles

Walk through villages and woods of South Oxon

Start:

Difficulty:: Strenuous

Distance:: 15.0 miles

A pleasant circular walk around the fields surrounding Burchetts Green

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 5.8 miles

Riverside walking to Leander Club then up through woods

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 10.0 miles

From Remenham church past Matson House up Remenham Hill

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 4.0 miles

Avoid the mud! Hawley Common to Minley Wood and back past Hawley Lake

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 6.4 miles

Pleasant , varied walk ,around and about Crowsley , Binfield Heath ,and Dunsden Green

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 6.1 miles

An undulating walk in the Oxfordshire countryside

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 12.5 miles

Five Big Bottoms and a Grim Ditch

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 11.5 miles

Join us for a longer rural meander to enjoy heaths, woods, lakes and farmland

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 14.0 miles

A pleasant walk from Knowl Hill through woods and fields

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 6.0 miles

A walk of from Frost Folly car park through Warfield to Maiden's Green and to Hawthorn Hill

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 5.0 miles

See winter beauty by walking over and looking at and from Hampshire downs and gallops

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 12.3 miles

Through Crowthorne wood and back through Widmoor Heath

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 6.0 miles

A local walk from Simons Wood avoiding as much mud as possible

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 6.0 miles

Rivers south of Reading

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 11.1 miles

Tour of woods and hills of South Oxon

Start:

Difficulty:: Strenuous

Distance:: 15.0 miles

Lets Explore Waltham St Lawrence

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 4.5 miles

A town walk through the north and older part of Earley, taking in Palmer park and the river Kennet

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 5.4 miles

Braywick Nature Centre to Ray Mill Island

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 6.9 miles

Whitchurch Hill in winter

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 10.6 miles

Around urban Bracknell between green spaces

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 5.0 miles

A walk through Swallowfield Park and the plantations around Farley Hill

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 6.0 miles

A ramble through woodland, farmland and villages in the Chilterns

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 10.8 miles

Four Wells and a Red Lion

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 11.5 miles

Choice Chiltern Charm

Start:

Difficulty:: Strenuous

Distance:: 15.0 miles

Bagshot Heath, visiting Rapley Lake, New England Hill, Wishmoor Cross, Deer Rock Hill

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 6.5 miles

A local walk, passing 2 golf courses and passing through The Coombes and Rook's Nest

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 6.0 miles

Three lakes, three woods and a garden

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 10.0 miles

A leisurely walk from Simons Wood car park to and around Horseshoe Lake

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 3.6 miles

Holies Hanging, Lardon Chase and Lough Down

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 5.6 miles

Will we find snowdrops?

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 12.0 miles

Circular round Ufton Nervet

Start:

Difficulty:: Strenuous

Distance:: 15.0 miles

A Spring walk from Eversley Church to River Blackwater path, returning via Eversley Cross

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 5.8 miles

California Park, Arborfield and Hazebrouck Meadows Circular

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 5.5 miles

Town and Country walk via Caversham

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 12.0 miles

Binfield Heath and Crowsley Park

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 6.0 miles

Woodley and Earley Lakes

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 7.0 miles

A pleasant walk up the Hambleden valley to Skirmett, returning through woods and along country lanes

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 6.3 miles

A woodland walk on the outskirts of Marlow (north-west)

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 10.0 miles

River Loddon Ramble

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 10.0 miles

Heaths, Greens, Woods and Water

Start:

Difficulty:: Strenuous

Distance:: 15.0 miles

Return to The Horns, Bowsey Hill, Warren Row and Juddmonte Farm

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 4.5 miles

Badgemore Park and the Oxfordshire Way

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 6.8 miles

Bisley to Brookwood cemetery passing through Bisley Common and Sheets Heath

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 6.9 miles

Charming and very scenic Spring walk in the Chilterns visiting Hailey and Ipsden

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 11.0 miles

Boveney Chapel and Dorney Common

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 5.3 miles

Finchampstead Ridges and Blackwater Lakes

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 6.0 miles

A Circumnavigation of Crowthorne!

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 11.5 miles

Hampden Church, Pulpit Hill, Ellesborough & back skirting Prestwood 1960' ascent

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 15.2 miles

Clayfield Copse, Chalkhouse Green, Lady's Shaw, Comp Farm and Littlestead Green

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 6.5 miles

Starting in the ever popular Henley-on-Thames we climb from Newtown into the Chiltern Hills enjoying

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 8.0 miles

A lovely walk in the Chilterns, with great views, including Watlington Hill

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 5.4 miles