City of Birmingham Ramblers Group

BOOKING ESSENTIAL. Please use this link to open Birmingham Ramblers’ Eventbrite page, then scroll down to see all the walks currently available. Click on the image of the walk you wish to attend and complete the registration details
Our Sunday walks are by coach and are more often than not linear, with a different drop-off and pick-up point, making for more interesting and varied walking. We have three levels of walk to suit all abilities, A packed lunch and a flask of tea/coffee or soft drinks should be taken for the whole day, although we may have a lunchtime pub/café stop for refreshments. The pick-up point for the coach is the layby at the side of St. Chad’s Cathedral. The coach leaves at 9.00 am, but advise walkers to arrive by 8.45 am. Booking is essential for these walks. The fare is £20.

This walk has three levels of walks - approximately 11 miles, 9 miles and 6-7 miles
Further walk details when available will be added here

BOOKING ESSENTIAL. Please use this link to open Birmingham Ramblers’ Eventbrite page, then scroll down to see all the walks currently available. Click on the image of the walk you wish to attend and complete the registration details".
Only a few seats remaining. When all seats booked, if you are interested in participating you can go on the waiting list (up until 10th August when bookings close) via the booking link above, and may get offered a place if there are cancellations.
A packed lunch and a flask of tea/coffee or soft drinks should be taken for the whole day, although we may have a lunchtime pub/café stop for refreshments. The pick-up point for the coach is the layby at the side of St. Chad’s Cathedral. The coach leaves at 9.00 am, but advise walkers to arrive by 8.45 am. Booking is essential for these walks. The fare is £20.
This walk has three levels to suit all abilities, 11.5 miles with 2060ft total ascent, 8 miles with 1600ft total ascent and 5.5 miles with 1200ft total ascent
Below is a description of the 8 miles walk:
The walk starts south of Church Stretton at the village of Little Stretton which lies at the foot of Long Mynd. From here we ascend the Mynd on a route which passes by Callow Hill, Barrister’s Plain and Round Hill. This is a long and gradual ascent, not at all steep, which offers beautiful views to right and left of us across the Mynd’s beautiful valleys and opportunities for pauses to enjoy these surroundings and many photo opportunities. We arrive at the wide plateau at the top of the Mynd and make a short detour to Pole Bank the highest point at 516 metres with distant views to the west well into Wales.
After a short time on the plateau our descent route is flat at first before we start getting views of the panorama of hills to the east of Church Stretton; then down a bit more to the head of the Townbrook valley. To the side is Yearlet a small hill which we will circle round and ascend, a lovely little grassy hill and great views to the southwest. Back to the valley head we pick up a path to moorland and road on Burway Hill. From here it’s downhill to the last part of the walk a circuit of Rectory Wood and Field. Rectory Wood once formed part of the grounds of the rectory in Church Stretton. In around 1770 the rector made great changes to create a designed woodland landscape garden. It is said Capability Brown may have inspired the design. What we see today are some partially preserved remains of the designed landscape and some wonderful gnarled ancient trees. A striking contrast to the Long Mynd landscape!
From the top of the town it’s a short walk back to our coach.

BOOKING ESSENTIAL. Please use this link to open Birmingham Ramblers’ Eventbrite page, then scroll down to see all the walks currently available. Click on the image of the walk you wish to attend and complete the registration details
Meeting arrangements:
If travelling by train: Meet at Bournville station at 10.30 am Train leaves Birmingham New Street (usually from platform 12 but check first) at 10.15 am, stopping also at stations along the line. If travelling from Longbridge it’s the 10.22 am from platform 1, stopping also at stations along the line.
If travelling by bus: The outer Circle buses 11A and 11C stop at Linden Road/Bournville Lane. Please alight here and meet the group at the nearby crossroads of Bournville Lane and Linden Road at approximately 10.50 am.
If driving: There is the shoppers’car park off Sycamore Road opposite Bournville Green; also some roadside parking in Sycamore Road.
Walk Description:
The first part of the walk is along a pleasant streamside path through Bournville Park followed by a brief walking tour of Bournville Village which takes in some of the distinctive architecture of the area. Most of the houses we see are owned by Bournville Village Trust, founded in 1900 by George Cadbury with a focus on providing good quality housing in a green environment. About halfway through the walk we pause for a refreshments/toilets break at a coffee shop on the Green or eat your own snack on the benches around.
Next, we follow the public access route of the Cadbury factory on our way to Cotteridge Park which has an impressive collection of glacial erratic rocks scattered throughout the park. These “glacial erratics” travelled via a glacier from north Wales up to 400,000 years ago and were left behind when the ice melted. We will see a good selection of these rocks. We leave Cotteridge Park behind as we head back towards Bournville Green, on the way taking a walk around the compact Cadbury Park which was formerly the Cadbury girls’ recreation ground dating from the time when workers were kept separate in their leisure time. It’s an interesting little park with remains of some original features. Here the walk finishes with refreshments available on the Green for those who wish before their journey home. 4.75 miles. Break at Kafeinon halfway through.

BOOKING ESSENTIAL, please use the link for our booking page. Coach fare £20, payable cash/cheque or in advance by bank transfer
Only a few seats remaining. When all seats booked, interested participants can go on the waiting list (up until 24th August when bookings close) via the booking link above, and may get offered a place if there are cancellations.

Three levels of walk, approximate distances : 11.5 miles, 9.5 miles and 7 miles
Here is a description of the 9.5 miles walk:
This walk takes in typical rural Cotswolds landscape and villages.
We start at the pretty village of Stanton and soon pick up a section of the Winchcombe Way which offers some very pleasing views of the wider countryside to the west. At the village of Buckland we walk briefly along the village road then turn off to take an undulating route to the north of the village - and have a morning tea break around here. We pick up a bit of the Cotswold Way on a farm track and rejoin the Winchcombe Way which here takes a high level mostly flat path with great views this time to the east. We leave this path and descend to Snowshill, another pretty Cotswold village nestling in the fold of the valley. We take a lunch break here, places to eat our lunches round by the church with the Snowshill Arms very handily nearby.
Leaving Snowshill we ascend a lane and halfway up take a field path towards Littleworth Wood; emerging from the wood we are on another high level path which follows a plateau for a short distance before we take a short detour to the Shenberrow Hill Iron Age settlement which shows some remains of the earthworks – and beautiful vistas. Next is Stanton Hill (that’s what I call it, although it’s not called anything on the map). It’s a gradual descent from here with fantastic views way off to the west, the familiar profile of the Malverns on the horizon and nearer unnamed hills in between. It’s a lovely descent! At the bottom of the hill we walk into Stanton and pick up a field path towards the main road where our coach is parked.