Long Mynd
	9:44am Mon 4 Feb 08
	You'd have to be very keen on the great outdoors to relish trudging through sodden, lowland arable fields, with half a kilo of mud clinging to each boot.

	Monkwood Nature Reserve, near Sinton Green
	9:16am Mon 28 Jan 08
	Monkwood Nature Reserve is jointly owned by Worcestershire Wildlife Trust and Butterfly Conservation and is freely accessible to the public, with a good network of paths. Don't be dismayed if you come across evidence of tree-felling - it's just that some paths and rides are being widened this winter to improve the habitat for butterflies, especially the scarce wood white.

	Old Hills
	9:11am Mon 21 Jan 08
	Though it covers a relatively small area, the common land at Old Hills provides the opportunity for some enjoyable walks through a mixture of grassland, scrub and woodland.

	Cradley
	9:39am Mon 14 Jan 08
	Cradley straggles along a twisty lane beneath the wooded hills rising just to the north and west of the Malverns.

	Holt Heath
	9:19am Mon 7 Jan 08
	With the days already noticeably lengthening it's a good time to venture out for a longer walk. This one could easily take all day if you were to linger at some of the highlights along the way, such as Shrawley Wood or Redstone Rock. There are also plenty of pubs and cafés along the way, which might detain you too. On the other hand, it's totally undemanding, so you could whizz round it in just three or four hours if you wanted to. And if you prefer shorter walks, it's easily split into two linear walks which can be done on different days.

	Bransford Bridge and Lower Howsen
	8:55am Mon 31 Dec 07
	THE river Teme occupies a wide, flat valley at Bransford, but on the north side of the valley there is a short, fairly steep slope which gives only the most minimal height gain, and yet provides unexpectedly good views, dominated by the Malvern Hills. From this point, it's an easy walk, via Howsen and Lightwood, to Broadheath Common, an area of access land where you can wander at will.

	Wyre Forest
	9:35am Mon 24 Dec 07
	Wyre Forest is well known as a beautiful place to visit in autumn and early winter, but this walk also includes secluded Snuffmill Dingle, a delightful remnant of ancient woodland surviving on the southern edge of Bewdley. The site of a former snuff mill, the steep-sided dingle is a wildlife-rich mixture of woodland and wetland, with a brook, several pools and extensive marshy patches. Reeds and rushes flourish on the valley floor, while hollies, oaks and beeches grow on the drier valley sides.

	Leamington Spa
	9:22am Mon 17 Dec 07
	Crowds flock to Warwick, drawn by the castle and the attractive town centre, but far fewer visitors make their way to Warwick's close neighbour Leamington Spa, not realising how full of interest and character it is.

	Wolverley Village
	9:59am Mon 10 Dec 07
	This is a lovely walk, full of interest and with a few surprises. For instance, between Whitehouse Farm and Island Pool there is a totally unexpected landscape - a shallow valley with gorse, bracken, scrub, masses of rosebay willowherb and patches of wetland.

	Shoulton
	9:52am Mon 26 Nov 07
	Wallabies in Worcestershire? An unlikely scenario, perhaps, but you should glimpse some on this walk.

	Hawbridge
	9:53am Mon 19 Nov 07
	Though this is predominantly farmland, there are woods, orchards and ancient hedgerows too, adding masses of autumn colour to the landscape.

	Church ruin is popular with fans of the occult
	9:26am Mon 12 Nov 07
	The remote little churches at Acton Beauchamp and Stanford Bishop are the principal objectives of this walk in lovely undulating countryside in and above the valleys of the river Frome and its tributaries, Whelpley Brook and Linton Brook.

	Stourport on Severn
	9:34am Mon 5 Nov 07
	Stourport is undergoing something of a renaissance at the moment, with improvements to the canal basins in progress.

	Purshull Green
	9:02am Mon 29 Oct 07
	Purshull Green is a delightful place, but you could easily live a lifetime in Worcestershire without ever knowing it existed.

	Clifton upon Teme
	9:05am Mon 22 Oct 07
	SAINT Bartholomew's Church at Lower Sapey is a simple, charming Norman building which fell into dereliction through disuse but was sensitively restored in the 1990s.

	Callow Hill to Flounders Folly
	9:53am Mon 15 Oct 07
	Craven Arms consisted only of a road junction, a coaching inn (the Craven Arms Hotel) and a hamlet called Newton, until the Shrewsbury and Hereford railway was built in the 1840s.

	Teme Valley near Tenbury
	9:55am Mon 8 Oct 07
	FACTFILE Start: Eardiston (on the A443 between Abberley and Tenbury); grid ref SO693683.

	Ravenshill Woodland Reserve
	11:19am Mon 1 Oct 07
	Why not take the opportunity to explore Ravenshill Woodland Reserve on this beautiful walk from Knightwick? Established in the 1970s by the late Elizabeth Barling, the reserve is privately owned, but open to the public from 9am to 4pm daily, September to March (9am-7pm April-August).

	River Teme
	9:17am Mon 24 Sep 07
	THIS short and very easy walk explores both banks of the River Teme just to the west of Worcester. At this point the Teme, a major tributary of the Severn, is close to the end of its 75-mile journey from its source in the Kerry Hills of mid-Wales and is a typical example of a river in its lower reaches, as it meanders in large, willow-fringed loops across a wide, flat floodplain.

	Edwyn to Edvin
	8:26am Mon 17 Sep 07
	SAMPLE a short stretch of the 154-mile Herefordshire Trail on this lovely walk from Bromyard. The trail was created by members of the Ramblers' Association in partnership with Herefordshire Council and it's a hugely scenic route linking the county's five market towns.

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