Easy walks for the whole family

Hampshire Surrey West Sussex

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Banstead Wood

A walk at Banstead Woods is literally like stepping into Narnia. Children will find four sculptures themed around The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe inside the woodland as well as some home made swings, dens and an enchanting bench.

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Alice Holt Forest

Alice Holt Forest is an extremely popular location for a variety of outdoor pursuits from high ropes courses to mountain biking. For the littlest explorers, there are multiple woodland play areas and Forestry England regularly host trails here based around Julia Donaldson stories. New for 2023 is a Zog trail which is detailed in this guide.

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Every Ambling Path walk has a stand out feature that children will love including magnificent play areas, shallow rivers for paddling, epic country parks and ancient ruins to explore.

Covering two national parks and two national landscapes, our detailed guides have all the information you need to get the whole family out walking right away.

Browse over 200 walks! Use the map to find a walk near you, hit the main menu to find walks by feature, look inside our themed collections or just tap the search bar.

Walk of the week.

Most days, I drive up the A3 and at this time of year the autumn colours on the wooded hillside of Queen Elizabeth Country Park always catch my eye. If you have spotted them too and want to investigate closer try this self-guided walk.

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Our Collections

What’s new?

  • It is hard to believe that Winnal Moors Nature Reserve is just minutes from the centre of Winchester. We have been back to update this walk. Our guide will show you where to find a park and a pub as well.

  • The River Hamble was glowing in the autumn sunshine when we went down to refresh this route. This walk near Southampton includes a cafe, two play areas and woodland too.

  • With a freshly updated route description, now is a great time to give this easy coastal and woodland walk near Southampton a try. It even includes the magnificent ruins of Netley Abbey.

  • We were pleased to see The Greatham Inn, near Liss, was back open again making this a pub and play park route once more. I have also updated the route to make more of it off-road.

  • Our walk at Cowdray in Midhurst has had a re-vamp making it straightforward for pushchair users and I have also added a little extension along the River Rother.

  • This pub walk on the South Downs has had a few tweaks to the route and there is currently a 10% discount at The Three Horseshoes for our members.