The SANGS and sights and sounds of Spencers Wood and Shinfield

Loddon Valley Group

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Overview

The SANGs and sights and sounds of Spencers Wood and Shinfield. Explore the new and old routes across the countryside and suburbia threading through and around the rapidly expanding local settlements.

Sunday, 26 October 2025

Start time:: 10:00 am
Estimated finish time:: 12:45 pm

Difficulty:: Leisurely
Distance:: 9.7km / 6.0mi
Ascent:: N/A
Type:: circular

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

WALK LEADER: Richard H Phone: 0788 411 3491 (0118 988 4118) STARTING LOCATION Nearest postcode: START: RG7 1GF Lat/Long: 51.40573,-0.96773 What3words: ///bring.flip.edgy

Starting point

Grid reference:: SU 71800 67901
Nearest postcode:: RG7 1GF
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Start time:: 10:00 am

Mays SANG Car Park on Hyde End Lane (Church Lane end).

Upcoming walks with Loddon Valley Group

Goring, Chiltern woods, Collins End, Whitchurch, Thames Path

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 12.0 miles

Chiltern Ancient Tree Walk Part 2: A circuit taking in several notable trees of different species, |

Start:

Difficulty:: Strenuous

Distance:: 15.5 miles

A summer walk along the Basingstoke Canal and Surrey heathlands

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 5.5 miles

An undulating walk in beautiful Chilterns woodland: Nettlebed, Halfridge Wood, Bix and Highmore

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 6.5 miles

Hampstead Norreys & Hermitage

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 12.5 miles

Crowthorne to Ambarrow Court Circular

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 4.0 miles

Around Frieth

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 6.0 miles

Pishill, Southend and a deer park

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 8.5 miles

Environs of Waltham St Lawrence

Start:

Difficulty:: Easy Access

Distance:: 6.2 miles

A rolling countryside walk over west Berkshire and northern Hampshire

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 10.5 miles

Checkendon Circuit

Start:

Difficulty:: Strenuous

Distance:: 14.5 miles

Woodland circular walk in Fox and Coombes woods of Barkham.

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 4.0 miles

The Great Chalk Wood and Elvendon Valley

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 5.7 miles

A walk encompassing the river Kennet, arable fields and woods

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 5.0 miles

Shiplake and Henley - the great way round

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 13.5 miles

A lite walk in the countryside between Barkham, Finchampstead and Arborfield

Start:

Difficulty:: Easy

Distance:: 3.5 miles

From Hurley up to the ridge and around

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 6.5 miles

A pleasant walk from Nuffield Church, following the ancient Grims Ditch

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 6.5 miles

From Pinkneys Green to Cookham Dean and then onto Winter Hill

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 11.3 miles

Brightwell Baldwin, Chalgrove and Pyrton

Start:

Difficulty:: Strenuous

Distance:: 15.5 miles

Walk in the Coombs

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 4.0 miles

Enjoy the fields and wood around Chapel Row without using the byway through Bucklebury Common

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 5.5 miles

Henley on Thames and Hambleden

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 6.9 miles

Lovely walk round Silchester, the beautiful forest trails of Pamber Forest and Pamber Heath

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 10.5 miles

Circular walk from Wargrave to Crazies Hill.

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 5.9 miles

A varied walk in the Chilterns, visiting the remains of an old church and a nature reserve

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 6.0 miles

An Autumn walk from Lane End

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 10.0 miles

Loddon river and its gravel terraces, modern lakes, Brunel's railway and the M4

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 15.5 miles

Charvil Country Park

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 3.8 miles

An undulating walk in wooded countryside through Pepperdine Common, Greys Court and Satwell Village

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 5.5 miles

South Oxfordshire Woods, fields and a brewery

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 8.8 miles

Pleasant walk through woods and fields via Ashford Hill nature reserve, Wasing Park and Brimpton

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 6.9 miles

Hambleden, Middle Assendon, Henley circular

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 12.0 miles

Stoke Poges. . .

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 4.3 miles

Crazies Hill to the Thames through a Deer Park then between fields of thoroughbred racehorses

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 5.3 miles

To Calleva (Silchester) via the Devils Highway

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 6.0 miles

Lane End, Turville, Fingest, Wheeler End

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 10.5 miles

Bovingdon Trenches to Stupas

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 15.2 miles

Crowthorne to Caesar's Camp Circular

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 6.0 miles