Kingsbury

6 DEC UPDATE: THE WALK PLANNED FOR 7 DEC HAS BEEN CANCELLED BECAUSE OF THE FORECAST OF VERY HIGH WIND. 

This Amble is around Kingsbury Waterpark on Saturday 7th. December and will be led by Anne Dewison. The walk will start at the Dog & Doublet, Bodymoor Heath, B76 9JD, at 10.00am and is just over 5 miles.

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. 

This walk of around 9.5 miles starts from the free car park in Pear Tree Avenue, Kingsbury, B78 2LN and goes along the Heart of England Way across fields to join the Centenary Way. The route leaves the Centenary Way along another footpath to reach the River Tame follows the Tame, passes some beautiful pools, then returns to the start via Kingsbury Water Park.

The Royal Oak pub is close to the car park and handy for a visit after the walk.

This walk is approximately 9.3 miles and starts from the carpark of The Swan Inn, Whitacre Heath, B46 2JA. It starts by following the Heart of England Way to Kingsbury Water Park and then following the Centenary Way back to Whitacre Heath.

From the carpark turn right to a T-Junction at which turn right again and follow the road for 1/4 mile where a road joins from the right, opposite the road there is a gate in the hedge signed HoE Way, go through the gate and across the middle of a cultivated field to a stile in the hedge, go over the stile and across the middle of a second cultivated field to a gate in the hedge leading onto a lane. Cross the lane onto a track passing several attractive houses, follow the signed bridleway ahead, going through a gate and continue through an avenue of trees to reach a gate into a field. go diagonally across this field aiming well to the right of a barn. At the far side of the field follow the HoE Way waymark gently uphill to reach a road at Foul End.