Guide Books, Apps & Websites

The walks used on this website are taken from a wide range of sources, books and websites. Here are a few:

Walks with Writers: New Literary Walks in Old Berkshire

Click here to view on Amazon

This book has about 20 routes across the whole of Berkshire and is well supported with images and routes.

Family Walks around Odiham & Upton Grey

This book is one of two purchased in 1998 from a garden centre. Although listed by Amazon I doubt this will ever come up for sale again unless you find it again in a local shop. It does have an ISBN number so there's a chance.

Click here to view on Amazon

Family Walks around Fleet & Crookham

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Websites / Apps

"All Trails" app

This global walking app is a great source of ideas and detailed descriptions of routes for walks locally and around the world.

It includes detailed waymarks, maps of the route and often recordings by other walkers of the same routes, timings etc.

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Ashampstead & Yattendon Circular Walk October 2020

This is a circular walk starting in the Berkshire village of Ashampstead. This walk is 4.5 miles and took just under 2 hours to complete. Yattendon, the halfway point is the home to a brewey and The Royal Oak pub. The village Post Office also does take out Tea and Coffee and has a small shop. Car Park Parking is beside the playing fields in the middle of the village, not sure if this is called Dog Lane or Holly Lane but you can't miss them. Co-ordinates are: 51.48849457075639, -1.187116681437046 if you look in Google Maps. The Route 1. Facing the playing fields turn right along the road until you reach Church Lane, turn left down Church Lane until you reach the church "St Clements". 2. Enter the churchyard and follow the path round to the back of the church building to a gate in the rear fence. 3. Cross the field and you'll emerge onto a road. Turn left. This is the road to a farm shop so will have traffic on it. Be Careful! 4. At the farm shop take the path right in ...

Wittenham Clumps and Dorchester-on-Thames Circular Walk

Amazing Oxfordshire and Berkshire views from these Hill Forts where Time Team once dug. 6km (1.5 hrs) Halfway Pub: The George, Dorchester-on-Thames The Route: Once in the car park, face the wooded hilltop (Wittenham Clumps, an important ancient hill fort in the Sinodun Hills) and take the path aiming for the left hand side of the hilltop, with the wooded area on your right. Find out more about the Clumps here: The Time Team dig: At the hilltop (120 m high), admire the view of Little Wittenham Church , the River Thames and Day’s Lock, the lakes and lagoons around Dorchester and Dorchester Abbey. From here, take the path leading down to Little Wittenham Church, turn right once you go through the gate at the bottom and follow this road over the River Thames at Day’s Lock Islands (across 2 bridges). On the far side, go through another gate into a field and take the diagonal path towards Dorchester. This becomes a narrow footpath whi...

Silchester Circular Walk

This is a circular walk of about 7 miles around the area of Silchester Roman Town (ancient Calleva). There is a pub at the start ( and therefore also at the finish - The Calleva Arms). Take snacks and drinks for this one, 7 miles is a long way so take your time and plan a long day in the woods, play on the trees, enjoy walking the Roman walls at the end - hunt for Roman pottery in fields around... Car Park Depending on the day there is car parking on the playing fields on Pamber Road or at the Village Hall. Probably best at the playing fields - and that's where this walk starts). The Route 1. From the playing fields car park cross Pamber Road into Dukes' Ride. 2. Head down Dukes Ride until you come to a footpath sign forking to the right. 2. Follow this bridleway all along the back of the houses in the woods, it will start to descend to a little stream - - follow this and the path to the left - have a play on the fallen trees and follow the path right to a small bridge. Cross ...

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