🌞Midsummer — early morning visits most comfortable; look for deer fawns in quieter clearings
🐕Early mornings are best for dog walks in summer — visit before 9am to avoid the heat and find quieter trails
🅿️Parking 330m away — 6 car parks within reach
🌤️ Visiting this summer
🌞Midsummer — early morning visits most comfortable; look for deer fawns in quieter clearings
🐕Early mornings are best for dog walks in summer — visit before 9am to avoid the heat and find quieter trails
🅿️Parking 330m away — 6 car parks within reach
Good to know
£Free to visit — no entry charge
🐕Dogs welcome
🅿️Parking· Free
Best for
8 activities
🦅
Bird watching
Strong match
Grazing marsh — lapwing, redshank, snipe and wintering wildfowl
Free
🐶
Dog walks
Strong match
Dogs allowed — public woodland
Free
🦉
Wildlife
Strong match
Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh priority habitat
Free
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Waterside walks
Good match
Grazing marsh and ditches — waterside walking
Varies
🌿
Foraging
Good match
Deciduous woodland — fungi, berries and wild garlic
Varies
🌲
Forest walks
Good match
Public woodland
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km
🚶
Walking
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8 signed routes nearby · 6 public paths nearby
Signed route nearbyPublic paths
Monarch's WayWalking route990 km▾
approximate route of Charles II's escape
Named routeRef MWLength 990 kmRegional walking route
Four Commons WalkWalking route9.5 km▾
Circular route following the Wyrley & Essington Canal to Clayhanger Common – one of Walsall’s much-loved areas of green, open space.
Distance: 6 miles/9.5 km(approx)
Duration: 120 mins(approx)
Named routeLength 9.5 kmRound tripLocal walking route
Clayhanger Common WalkWalking route9.5 km▾
Short, circular route following the Wyrley & Essington Canal to Clayhanger Common – one of Walsall’s much-loved areas of green, open space.
Distance: 6 miles/9.5 km(approx)
Duration: 120 mins(approx)
Named routeLength 9.5 kmRound tripLocal walking route
Beacon WayWalking route40 km▾
Starting at Sandwell Valley via the outskirts of Birmingham and the countryside of Walsall into Staffordshire. Take in the Forest of Mercia, lakes, nature reserves, woods, and canal banks. Named after Barr Beacon, one of the highest hills in this area.
Named routeLength 40 kmPoint-to-pointRegional walking route
Forest of Mercia Timberland Trail (Short Route)Walking route12.9 km▾
8-mile circular route based on PRoW and canal towpaths, which would've been used by local miners, iron workers, and farmers. Car Parking at the start on Wood Lane.
Named routeRef FoMTTLength 12.9 kmRound tripLocal walking route
Named routeRef Starley NetworkLength 804 kmRegional cycle route
Sneyd Junction to Cannock Extension CanalCycling route8.8 km▾
A semi-rural route following the curves of the canal, until it opens out into parkland at the Cannock Extension.
Distance: 5.5 miles/8.8 km (approx)
Duration: 45 min (approx)
Named routeLength 8.8 kmPoint-to-pointLocal cycle route
Cannock Extension Canal to Longwood JunctionCycling route11.2 km▾
Canalside route leading past Clayhanger Common and through Rushall, with a pub along the way.
Distance: 7 miles/11.2 km (approx)
Duration: 60 min (approx)
Named routeLength 11.2 kmPoint-to-pointLocal cycle route
Walsall Local Cycle NetworkCycling route▾
Walsall Local Cycle Network
Named routeLocal cycle route
Sneyd Junction to Horseley Fields JunctionCycling route9.6 km▾
Canalside route following the Wyrley & Essington, taking New Cross Bridge, where the towpath changes to the other side of the canal.
Distance: 6 miles/9.6 km (approx)
Duration: 60 min (approx)
Named routeLength 9.6 kmPoint-to-pointLocal cycle route
