HG - BOOKING REQUIRED - Bus walk from Waterfront Cafe Benson to Dorchester

Henley & Goring Group

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Overview

We take 33 bus to Wallingford where we change to X40 bus to Benson. We walk along river bank via Shillingford and Nature Reserve to Dorchester for coffee/ lunch stop before returning by bus. Essential to book with leader to confirm bus times. HG Walk Leader GH 01189 475300 / 07763 213046

Wednesday, 2 July 2025

Start time:: 9:50 am
Estimated finish time:: 1:00 pm

Difficulty:: Moderate
Distance:: 8km / 5.0mi
Ascent:: N/A
Type:: circular

Website:: https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.537611,-0.903594

Starting point

Grid reference:: SU 76140 82649
Nearest postcode:: RG9 2AR
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Start time:: 9:50 am

Henley-on-Thames, Hart Street

Upcoming walks with Henley & Goring Group

HG - Loops around the Warburg

Start:

Difficulty:: Strenuous

Distance:: 13.5 miles

HG - Hailey, Evening pub walk

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 4.3 miles

HG - Oxfordshire Area picnic

Start:

Difficulty:: Easy

Distance:: 0.1 miles

HG - The Benson Ascension

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 10.0 miles

HG - Bus walk from Henley to Greenlands and back

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 3.0 miles

HG - BOOKING REQUIRED - Bus walk from Waterfront Cafe Benson to Dorchester

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 5.0 miles

HG - Stokenchurch with lots of Bottoms and Ends!

Start:

Difficulty:: Strenuous

Distance:: 14.5 miles

HG - A walk around Ruscombe and Waltham St Lawrence

Start:

Difficulty:: Easy

Distance:: 4.5 miles

HG - From Nettlebed to the North

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 12.0 miles

HG - BOOKING REQUIRED - Bourne End and around Marlow

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 10.0 miles

HG - Leisurely walk from Exlade Street

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 3.0 miles

HG - Henley Walk

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 7.0 miles

HG - Familiar (and less so) from Nuffield

Start:

Difficulty:: Strenuous

Distance:: 15.0 miles

HG - BOOKING REQUIRED - Short evening walk followed by fish & chips

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 3.7 miles

HG - Peppard Common to Nippers Grove and back

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 6.2 miles

HG - Witheridge & Wyfold

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 12.0 miles

HG - The Cowleaze Stampede

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 9.0 miles

HG - Sonning Common

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 3.6 miles

HG - Woodcote via Checkendon walk

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 5.5 miles

HG - A hilly walk from Hambleden

Start:

Difficulty:: Strenuous

Distance:: 14.0 miles

HG - North Stoke, evening pub walk

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 5.0 miles

HG - Early bird walk. 7 peaks from Turville Heath

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 11.0 miles

HG - A scenic walk from Nuffield

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 12.0 miles

HG - Crazies Hill

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 8.6 miles

HG - Leisurely from Hurley

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 3.0 miles

HG - Nettlebed, Ups and Downs with lovely views

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 5.6 miles

HG - Nettlebed to Ibstone - a hilly hike

Start:

Difficulty:: Strenuous

Distance:: 14.0 miles

HG - Kidmore End, evening pub walk

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 3.9 miles

HG - Scenic Walk From Hambleden

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 9.5 miles

HG - BOOKING REQUIRED - Southend and the Turville

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 10.0 miles

HG - BOOKING REQUIRED - Watlington

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 6.0 miles

HG - AFTERNOON WALK from Dorchester

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 2.9 miles

HG - Witheridge Hill circular

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 5.5 miles

HG - BOOKING REQUIRED - A hilly walk from Lane End

Start:

Difficulty:: Strenuous

Distance:: 14.0 miles

HG - Kingwood Common evening walk

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 3.7 miles

HG - Cookley Green, A hilly walk to both Ends

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 12.0 miles

HG - Nuffield Wander

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 8.5 miles

HG - BOOKING REQUIRED - Bus Walk. Stubbings’s Garden Centre to Wargrave

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 6.0 miles

HG - Nuffield Church

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 3.4 miles

HG - Loop from Middle Assendon to Hambleden via the river and Stonor

Start:

Difficulty:: Strenuous

Distance:: 15.0 miles

HG - A walk through woods from Knowle Hill

Start:

Difficulty:: Easy

Distance:: 3.0 miles

HG - From Nuffield to a deep well

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 11.0 miles

HG - BOOKING REQUIRED - Henley to Assendon and Bix

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 10.5 miles

HG - Nature walk from Spade Oak, Bourne End

Start:

Difficulty:: Easy

Distance:: 3.0 miles

HG - Christmas Common via Northend walk

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 5.5 miles

HG - BOOKING REQUIRED - Cowleaze - views and more

Start:

Difficulty:: Strenuous

Distance:: 13.7 miles

HG - Warborough, evening pub walk

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 4.2 miles

HG - Early Bird walk, from Cowleaze to the North

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 13.0 miles

HG - Maidensgrove Meander

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 9.0 miles

HG - BOOKING REQUIRED - Stoke Row

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 9.2 miles

HG - Sonning Common

Start:

Difficulty:: Easy

Distance:: 2.5 miles

HG - Rotherfield Peppard

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 6.0 miles

HG - BOOKING REQUIRED - Sonning Common Bird in Hand to Flowercroft Wood circular

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 6.2 miles

HG - A hilly walk from Maidensgrove

Start:

Difficulty:: Strenuous

Distance:: 13.0 miles

HG - Sonning Common - Pub walk from the Butchers Arms

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 4.5 miles

HG - Ewelme walks with views

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 7.5 miles

HG - BBQ Walk from Dunsden

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 6.0 miles

HG - BBQ Walk from Dunsden

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 4.5 miles

HG - BBQ Walk from Dunsden

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 3.0 miles

HG - BBQ Walk from Dunsden

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 9.0 miles

HG - BOOKING REQUIRED - Cookley Green, Swyncombe, Ridgeway and Russell's Water

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 10.0 miles

HG - A Nuffield Loop

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 5.8 miles

HG - Scenic Walk from Nuffield

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 7.0 miles

HG - A hilly walk from Stokenchurch

Start:

Difficulty:: Strenuous

Distance:: 13.0 miles

HG - Short evening walk followed by optional pub meal

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 3.7 miles

HG - Christmas Common canter

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 9.0 miles

HG - The Nettlebed Saunter

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 8.0 miles

HG - Bus Walk. Nuffield to Wallingford

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 6.2 miles

HG - BOOKING REQUIRED - Harpsden circular walk

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 3.0 miles

HG - Old Favourites from Maidensgrove

Start:

Difficulty:: Strenuous

Distance:: 14.0 miles

HG - A walk around the lakes in Charvil

Start:

Difficulty:: Easy

Distance:: 3.0 miles

HG - Morning walk from Nuffield

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 6.5 miles

HG - BOOKING REQUIRED - Pinkney's Green, Cookham Dean, Hurley and Burchett's Green

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 10.6 miles

HG - Checkendon, a woodland walk

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 5.0 miles

HG - Walk from Stoke Row

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 3.0 miles

HG - A Lane End circuit

Start:

Difficulty:: Strenuous

Distance:: 15.0 miles

HG - South Stoke, evening pub walk

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 3.2 miles

HG - Binfield Heath, a circuit towards Henley and Crowsley Park

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 12.0 miles

HG - BOOKING REQUIRED - Watlington centre

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 8.7 miles

HG - Rocky Lane leisurely

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 2.8 miles

HG - Rotherfield Peppard

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 5.5 miles

HG - Peppard Common to Wyfold Wood and back

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 5.8 miles

HG - Piddington to Marlow Common and back

Start:

Difficulty:: Strenuous

Distance:: 14.5 miles

HG - BOOKING REQUIRED - Last of the Summer Wine Stoke Row Pavilion

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 5.0 miles

HG - Ewelme to Warborough

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 10.0 miles

HG - BOOKING REQUIRED - Piddington to Bradenham and Naphill

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 9.2 miles

HG - Short walk from Peppard Common

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 3.0 miles

HG - Nuffield Walk

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 7.0 miles

HG - Middle Assendon, Cherished Chiltern Checkpoints

Start:

Difficulty:: Strenuous

Distance:: 14.0 miles

Join the Ramblers and enjoy

unlimited free access to 50,000 Ramblers group walks
a library jam-packed with thousands of tried-and-tested routes
a welcome pack teeming with top tips plus our Walk magazine
exclusive discounts from our partners
knowing your support is opening up more places to walk and helping more people discover the joy of walking

Join now for just £3.58 per month