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Walks in Birmingham
Select one of the featured routes below. For information on walking routes outside of these city locations, click here
Featured routes
Bleak Hill Recreation Ground
This city walk takes you to Hill Recreation Ground and goes past Marsh Lane and buildings of local interest.
Brookvale Park Shorter Walk
This city walk takes you to Brookvale Park and goes past Mere Road and buildings of local interest.
Hall Green Conservation Area Walk
This circular urban walk visits contrasting residential areas. The highlight is Birmingham’s best interwar estate at Hall Green, where distinctive villas in tree lined avenues mingle with Birmingham’s oldest suburban church.
Rowheath Park Walk
This circular walk crosses the railway and follows quiet streets past Victorian houses and old farm buildings to Rowheath Park & Sports Ground. After a turn around the park it returns by linked cul-de-sacs, past a school and back over the railway.
Discovering the John Morris Jones Walkway
This city walk explores the area around the South Birmingham College, it crosses two green areas and takes you along the River Cole before returning along urban streets.
Seven Streets Village
This walk through Balsall Heath takes you to two parks and into the heart of the Balti restaurant district.
Cannon Hill Park
This walk takes you to Cannon Hill Park and after a turn around the park and its lakes, the walk returns following urban streets.
An Urban Heath & A Green Park
This circular walk follows urban streets and after a turn around Calthorpe Park, it returns to Balsall Heath Women’s Academy.
Small Heath Park
Starting from The Ackers Activity Centre, this circular walk takes you through Small Heath Park and round Poet’s Corn. Returns following Golden Hillock Road back to the centre.
Town Hall, Victoria Square
A short walk from Victoria Square to Peace Gardens and returning via Worcester & Birmingham Canal.
Bournville – Factory to Parks
A pleasant walk through Bournville Village Trust, including parks, woodland, and residential streets.
Bournville – Canal Walk
This walk combines pleasant stretches of canal path, with a delightful area of park.
Bournbrook & Bournville Walk
This circular urban walk starts at the best part of Bournbrook’s high street and runs through quiet back roads to higher ground. Here it crosses small parks and explores Bournville village before returning along the worst part of Selly Oak’s high street.
Bournville factory to the River Rea
A mixture of historic Stirchley and the modern Rea Valley Cycle Route
Artsfest Route
Birmingham Town Hall is a Grade I listed concert and meeting venue. Between 2002 – 2008 it was refurbished into a concert hall and is now used for performances as diverse as organ recitals, rock, pop and classical concerts and events.
King’s Norton Village
This circular walk follows green ways to the historic centre of King’s Norton village. After a turn around the village green to see its remarkable medieval buildings the walk returns through a graveyard and across a public park.
Summerfield Park
This circular walk explores the area around Edgbaston Reservoir following a dam and urban streets; it also takes you through the green area of Summerfiled Park.
Water, Water Everywhere
This walk encompasses Edgbaston Reservoir, Chamberlain Gardens and Birmingham Canal and is comprised of quiet residential streets, canal towpaths, and park paths.
Witton Cemetery
Visit Birmingham’s oldest and largest municipal Cemetery and its many points of interest, before wandering alongside old drinking water lakes used when the area was just countryside.
Medieval Northfield
This city walk takes you the Medieval Northfield passing by St Laurence Church to and goes past the River Rea and buildings of local interest.
Along the River Rea
This city walk takes you to the River Rea and goes past Northfield Station and buildings of local interest.
Handsworth Park
Leave the noise and rush of the streets and enjoy the quiet tranquility of a Victorian Park.
Austin and Ford
This city walk takes you to the River Rea Trail and goes past the only ford in Birmingham and buildings of local interest.
Waterworld – Canals, Rivers & Reservoirs
This city walk takes you to the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal and Tunnel Lane and goes past the Lifford Reservoir and buildings of local interest.
The Commons & Dingle Walk
This circular walk takes you along the River Cole and visits Joy’s Wood, Swanshurst Park, Billesley Common and Chinn Brook Meadows.
Hall Green Walk
This circular urban walk visits contrasting residential areas. The highlight is Birmingham’s best interwar estate at Hall Green, where distinctive villas in tree lined avenues mingle with earlier buildings, notably Birmingham’s oldest suburban church.
Shire Country Park
This walk explores the area around Sarehole Mill, taking you along the River Cole and urban streets.
Swanhurst Park
This circular walk explores the area around Sarehole Mill, taking you to Moseley Bog, Joy’s Wood and passing through Swanhurst Park.
The Bullring Walk
A walk through the city centre of Birmingham, including St Philip’s Square, the High Street and Bullring Markets.
Victoria Square
A short city circular walk to Victoria Square. It takes you along the Birmingham & Fazeley Canal, passes student residence for Birmingham City University and many other buildings of local interest.
Aston via Aston Hall
This city walk takes you to Aston Park and pass Aston Villa Football Club and buildings of local interest.
St David’s Church to Merritt’s Hill
This short walk takes you trough the green space of Ley Park, passes several grassy areas along urban streets.
A Stroll from John Bright Street
A fascinating short walk from the RNIB Offices in John Bright Street passing through the Chinese Quarter. See old theatres and experience the National Trust “Back-to Back Houses” with their old local, the Old Fox.
Edgbaston Tunnel
This circular walk is mainly along the Birmingham and Worcester Canal but also includes some wide tree-lined roads.
St Peter’s College
This walk passes Fordrough Lane, Bridge Road and College Road and takes you to the old building of St. Peters College before returning on a different route.
Sparkhill Walk
This circular walk runs through backstreets and three small parks to the famous Balti Triangle. It returns past some notable public buildings on the Stratford Road. There are public benches in the parks, snack centres on Ladypool Road and pubs en-route.
Reservoirs Walk
This circular walk follows green ways past former reservoirs to Brookvale Park and returns through pleasant Victorian back streets. There are public benches by the lakes & a pub at Marsh Hill. This is an accessible walk – all kerbs encountered have drops, or are easily negotiable.
Bordesley Green Local Walk
This short city walk passes through the Victorian and Edwardian district of Bordesley Green. It takes you through two pleasant parks Grange Road Park and Henry Barber Park, a former clay pit.
Adderley Walk
A short city walk passing two old churches, Rosary RC Church and St Saviour’s Church, before exploring the Birmingham and Warwick Canal with a quirky detour, if time permits. Return walking through Adderley Park. Birmingham’s first public park.
Bloomsbury Walk
An urban walk through old Birmingham. Pass by Chinese area ( Wing Zip) Old Mitre Ale House and old churches St Joseph’s and St Matthews. Walk along Birmingham and Fazeley Canal and if time permits visit old Dog and Partridge pub, a remnant of Ashted Row.
Boldmere
This short city walk takes you to the district of Boldmere and goes past Wylde Green Station and historical buildings of local interest.
Birmingham Showcase Walk
This walk starts at the ‘old town’ and follows back streets lined with Victorian factories and criss-crossed by railway viaducts to an old burial ground. Then runs uphill to the new shopping centre and downhill past the parish church and outdoor markets.
Moseley Bog
This circular walk visits places with a connection to the author J R Tolkien, in particular Sarehole Mill and Moseley Bog, which inspired scenes from The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings.
Sutton Coldfield
This city walk takes you to Sutton Park and goes past Sutton Coldfield Girls Grammar School.
The Lakes Of Rowheath
This near-level route leads along quiet roads and on into the paths, lakes and trees of Rowheath Park, a gift of the Cadbury family, and passes Rowheath Pavilion, now the base of a Christian community.
Grand Union Canal
This city walk takes in the Grand Union Canal and passes historic buildings of local interest.
Cotteridge Park
A walk, mainly of pavements, leading along Mary Vale Road and through a quiet housing estate into the green expanse of Cotteridge Park, climbing afterwards to return to the cafe.
Bournville Bells & The Green
This route descends past the Cadbury Factory, crossing to the pleasant haven of Bournville Green, with the Carillon Visitor Centre, Selly Manor and local homes of architectural interest.
Ackers Trust & Grand Union Canal
An enjoyable walk through the Greet area along the River Cole to the Ackers Trust. It offers endless opportunities to explore the wild life found in ponds, swamps, woodland and deep cuttings and can be extended to the Grand Union Canal.
Canal Walk and Sea Life Centre
A walk of less than an hour through the streets of Edgbaston to the Birmingham Canal and the Sea Life Centre. On the way it visits Birmingham’s ‘Walk of Stars’ and a Japanese Garden. There are numerous rest stops and cafes on the way if you like to take a break.
Burbury Brickworks Project walk
This half hour circular walk takes in a really interesting patch of Birmingham! The former Burbury Brickworks site next to the River Cole is now an important conservation area for wildlife and flowers in the area including bats, butterflies, ducks, newts and wild orchids.
A walk in Washwood Heath
Take this chance to have an extended look at the area of Washwood Heath. Starting near The Ward End Works, a historic factory that produced munitions during both World Wars, this hour long route will lead you away from this industrial area into the open and green space of Ward End Park. A central focus [...]
Reservoirs walk
This easily accessible walk takes just over an hour and shows you some of Erdington’s most beautiful landmarks, explaining their historical relevance. What was once a means of providing an essential water supply to the local area, now offers walkers an attractive network of lakes and waterways to explore, including the Witton Lakes and the [...]
