Easy walks for the whole family

Hampshire Surrey West Sussex

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Street Croft Farm

Street Croft Farm, south of Basingstoke, is a working farm with farm shop, café, animals and children’s games. If you want to make your day in the countryside even better, you can follow our linear walk to Herriard Green, a beautiful park with paths mown through wildflower meadows and a very good play area

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Sutton Scotney

There are quite a few parks on our website, but this one is really special. It has ample parking, a brilliant play area, a little section of riverside boardwalk and best of all, a place where children can safely access the shallow water of the River Dever via steps and a small pontoon.

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Broomy Inclosure

This walk encompasses everything we love about the New Forest; an epic family pub, tracks suitable for walkers and cyclists, huge ancient oaks and magical conifer plantations, free-roaming ponies, heather clad open plains and bridges over gentle streams.

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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.

For Halloween week, try this walk on the Sussex/Hampshire border that passes the Racton Ruin, apparently one of the most haunted places you will find on one of our walks. If you want to warm yourself up after any chilling encounters, there is also a tea room en-route.

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What’s new?

  • We have completely re-written this walk at Compton Down near Winchester after Hampshire Pantry closed its doors. It still starts at the same brilliant play area, but will now take you to Hiltonbury Jerseys where you can buy fresh milkshakes and ice creams made form the Jersey milk.

  • 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.