🌞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
📍Open access throughout summer — no booking required
🌤️ 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
📍Open access throughout summer — no booking required
Good to know
£Free to visit — no entry charge
🐕Dogs welcome
Best for
3 activities
🐶
Dog walks
Strong match
Dogs allowed — public woodland
Free
🌲
Forest walks
Good match
Public woodland
Free
🦉
Wildlife
Weak signal
Conifer plantation — limited but present wildlife
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km
🚶
Walking
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12 signed routes nearby · 1 public path nearby
Signed route nearbyPublic paths
Heart of England WayWalking route▾
Named routeListed length 161kmRegional walking route
Sutton Park Archeology Walk 5: Blackroot BistroWalking route▾
Most of Sutton Park is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and contains archaeological remains. This trail, one of six in the park, is via an 18th-century racecourse and golf course, medieval deer park, and quarry created for an 18th-century mill pond dam.
Named routeRef AW5BBRound tripLocal walking route
Sutton Park Archeology Walk 6: Bracebridge PoolWalking route▾
Most of Sutton Park is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and contains archaeological remains. This trail, one of six in the park, is via a medieval fish pond, 16th-century wood, WWI military practice trenches, mysterious earthwork, and 19th-century estate.
Named routeRef AW6BPRound tripLocal walking route
The Tame Way- Canal RouteWalking route19 km▾
Explore the views, history and wildlife of the Tame Valley Wetlands. Stretching between Birmingham and Tamworth is an extraordinary hidden landscape on the doorstep of over 1 million people.
Sister walk to a river walk also ending at Hopwas.
Duration ~5h
Named routeRef TW-CLength 19 kmPoint-to-pointLocal walking route
E2 hiking trail BirminghamWalking route▾
Named routeNational walking route
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Cycling
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36 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
North Birmingham Walking and Cycling RouteCycling route▾
Route 535 is a small cycle route from National Cycle Route 5 in Birmingham City Centre to Gravelly Hill, which carries on for a short way along the Tame Valley Canal
Named routeRef 535National Cycle Network
National Cycle Network Route 534Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 534National Cycle Network
New Hall Valley Cycle RouteCycling route▾
Named routeRef 534National Cycle Network
Connect2Cycling route▾
Named routeLocal cycle route
Main RouteCycling route445 m▾
Named routeRef 534Length 445 mNational Cycle NetworkTraffic-freeSurface asphalt
N/ACycling route83 m▾
Named routeLength 83 mNational Cycle NetworkOn-roadSurface asphalt
🐴
Horse riding
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2 public paths nearby
Public paths
Brockhurst Lanebridleway · 1.4 km▾
Public pathbridlewayLength 1.4 kmSurface pavedPath type: unclassified
