This walk of 6.7 miles (10.8 km) was led by Mary Coles on Sunday 12th March, and started from the car park at RSPB Middleton Lakes Nature Reserve (entrance on Bodymoor Heath Rd, Tamworth, B78 2BB. Drive on past the Aston Villa training ground. £3 pay and display charge per car or free to RSPB Members. Note also that you cannot get to the RSPB Car park by driving through Middleton Hall Car Park even though some satnavs suggest otherwise!)
Description: Very flat and mainly on gravel/tarmac paths through sections of the RSPB Middleton Lakes Nature Reserve and Kingsbury Water Park, along the Birmingham & Fazeley Canal and through woods. Close to the end, the route passes Middleton Hall where there is a convenient café for post-walk refreshment.
NOTE TO DOG WALKERS: for parts of the route through the RSPB Nature Reserve dogs must be on a short lead. There are other parts of the reserve where dogs are not allowed at the route described here avoids these.
A map of the route and a link to a GPX file follow below the photo album.
Click the Learn more button above to open the map in Outdooractive from where you can download the route to the free Outdooractive app for Android or iOS, or export the route to a GPX file for use in other apps. The GPX file for this route (HHIK0085.gpx) can also be downloaded from this folder. For more about using Outdooractive, and a list of all our routes with GPX files, see: GPS Routes
