Nottinghamshire Area

We are a local group of the national Ramblers organisation and we organise a range of walks to suit all abilities throughout the year.

Website : https://www.nottsarearamblers.org.uk

Contact : 01777 838763

Walking in Nottinghamshire

Welcome to the Nottinghamshire Area Ramblers.

Nottinghamshire has a very varied landscape traversed by an excellent path network – from the stilton cheese Wolds of south Notts to the carr lands of Misson in the far north of the county. And from the Trent Vale across to the limestone gorges of Pleasley Vale and Cresswell Crags, by way of the clay lands with their Dumbles and Sherwood Forest with its sandy shroggs,

We even have our own long-distance path - the 105 mile Robin Hood Way (www.robinhoodway.com). Numerous Country Parks have been created from our industrial heritage. There truly is something for everyone in our beautiful county,

Through the amazing work of our volunteers, we campaign to protect and grow this path network so everyone can enjoy access to our much-loved countryside. We also support our local walking Groups so they can provide a variety of walks and other social activities for you to join.

Our friendly walking community

Our members campaign to keep open the rights of way in Nottinghamshire, and submit claims for paths to be added to our local definitive maps. We work together with a coalition of different users - cyclists, horse riders, disabled users, local communities - to strengthen our case. We have MPs, councillors and the media supporting us. Contact us if you would like to know more about being involved with this essential work - you will be very welcome.

We also support 14 friendly Groups offering a wide selection of walks catering for different locations, ages and abilities. The Groups also have social activities and walking holidays, providing a chance to make new friends, have fun and get fit at the same time.

See the links to the Groups below and details of the extensive programme of walks in Nottinghamshire and neighbouring counties. Hope to see you on a walk soon!

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Our groups

Newark Group

Nottingham Group

Retford Group

an avenue of bare trees leading up to an old building with sunlight coming through its arch.

Worksop Group

walkers in front of a small, circular, stone fort.

Rushcliffe Group

a walk leader points out an interesting feature during a walk

Broxtowe Group

Gedling Group

mansfield and sherwood ramblers group on a bridge

Mansfield & Sherwood Ramblers

Southwell Group

Collingham Group

Vale of Belvoir Ramblers on the Grantham Canal

Vale of Belvoir Group

Notts Derby Walking Group

a group of walkers sat on top of a hill with dramatic skies

One Step Walkers Group

Robin Hood Way Group

Upcoming walks and events

Bevercotes, West Markham and Milton

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 6.4 miles

Newark on Trent, including its 10 Bridges - BOOKABLE

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 8.5 miles

Barlow

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 8.5 miles

Boxing Day to Morton

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 7.0 miles

Whisby Wellbeing walk

Start:

Difficulty:: Easy

Distance:: 3.0 miles

Balderton Winter Walk

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 7.5 miles

Cavendish Woods and the Parliament Oak

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 8.0 miles

White Edge, Curbar Edge and Froggat Edge

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 6.0 miles

TWIXMAS TRAIN WALK

Start:

Difficulty:: Strenuous

Distance:: 9.5 miles

SUDHA (SUE) GOSRANI MEMORIAL SERVICE

Start:

TRANSPORT, FREEDOM AND FAIRNESS - WHAT DO YOU THINK?

Start:

New Year Day walk - Southwell and around

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 6.0 miles

The Best Woods for Walking - Bookable

Start:

Difficulty:: Easy

Distance:: 6.5 miles

New Year Day Walk 2025 – Clumber Park Boundary Walk

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 9.0 miles

BEVERCOTES PIT WOOD/LOUND HALL

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 5.8 miles

Whisby Wellbeing walk

Start:

Difficulty:: Easy

Distance:: 3.0 miles

Lots of water - hopefully not on the path!

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 7.0 miles

Around Bevercotes Pit Wood*

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 6.0 miles

A Merrie walk

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 5.5 miles

Winter walk in Wheatley

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 8.0 miles

Linacre and Beyond

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 7.0 miles

Bookable - Gunthorpe to Stoke Lock

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 8.0 miles

Hucknall, The River Leen & Bulwell

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 7.5 miles

Parwich

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 9.8 miles

Barlow near Chesterfield

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 8.5 miles

Beeston Big Round

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 10.0 miles

Shardlow circular via Aston-on-Trent

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 8.5 miles

CROMFORD, Derbyshire

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Hartsholme Progression Walk - 5 miles

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 5.0 miles

Winthorpe Wellbeing

Start:

Difficulty:: Easy

Distance:: 3.0 miles

Cotgrave Country Park

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 6.0 miles

Long Bennington - Foston - Westborough

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 7.5 miles

East Leake

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 7.0 miles

STRELLEY

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

LADY BAY

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 5.0 miles

Whisby Wellbeing walk

Start:

Difficulty:: Easy

Distance:: 3.0 miles

DEREK SUMMERS

Start:

Hathersage to Sheffield

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 12.3 miles

New members walk - Matlock Bath

Start:

Difficulty:: Easy

Distance:: 6.0 miles

A Ramble in Idle Valley

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 8.3 miles

Bookable - Wollaton Park, University Park and Lenton Village

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 8.2 miles

In the Shadow of the House of York

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 10.5 miles

Mackworth

Start:

Difficulty:: Easy

Distance:: 6.0 miles

Hemlock Stone to Cossall

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 9.0 miles

Dry under foot - in January?

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 4.0 miles

Winthorpe Wellbeing

Start:

Difficulty:: Easy

Distance:: 3.0 miles

Kingsmill Reservoir, three local nature reserves and a town park

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 6.0 miles

Lambley Dumbles & Gedling Country Park

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 7.0 miles

Tilton on the Hill

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 8.7 miles

UNIVERSITY PARK WALK

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 3.5 miles

The Cuckoo Way

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 8.0 miles

Whisby Wellbeing walk

Start:

Difficulty:: Easy

Distance:: 3.0 miles

Sherwood Observatory Visit

Start:

New members walk - Ticknall

Start:

Difficulty:: Easy

Distance:: 7.8 miles

NEWSTEAD ABBEY

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 5.5 miles

Hatfield Moors Nature Reserve

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 8.0 miles

Wysall, Willoughby and the Midshires Way

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 7.5 miles

Shireoaks, Chesterfield Canal & Two Woods

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 8.0 miles

Hartington

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 9.3 miles

SUNDAY LOCAL WALK - Nottingham Inclosure Walk

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 6.0 miles

A walk from South Lincoln

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 9.5 miles

Bookable - Lowland Derbyshire from Mickleover

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 10.1 miles

Winthorpe Wellbeing

Start:

Difficulty:: Easy

Distance:: 3.0 miles

Vicar Water

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 6.0 miles

LONG EATON AREA

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Belton House Estate and Londonthorpe

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 6.0 miles

Whisby Wellbeing walk

Start:

Difficulty:: Easy

Distance:: 3.0 miles

Clayworth Circular 2

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 8.0 miles

Pleasley Pit Coal Mining Museum

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 9.0 miles

Bookable - A ridge above the River Trent and a nature reserve

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 8.7 miles

Sutton-on-Trent & Moorhouse via Grassthorpe Beck

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 9.0 miles

Youlgreave

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 9.0 miles

Deer Park and Trail

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 3.5 miles

Winthorpe Wellbeing

Start:

Difficulty:: Easy

Distance:: 3.0 miles

River Trent and Nottingham Canal

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 4.8 miles

UP FROM UPTON

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 4.5 miles

Blidworth Bottoms

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 6.0 miles

Gunthorpe/Burton Joyce circular

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 7.5 miles

BESTWOOD VILLAGE/MILL LAKES

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 4.5 miles

Along, Down and Up

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 9.0 miles

Jack and the beanstalk

Start:

Black Rocks and Wirksworth

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 6.3 miles

3 Walks from Collingham - Notts Area AGM

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 5.0 miles

Radford, The River Leen, Jubilee Campus, Wilford Toll Bridge and Compton Acres

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 7.0 miles

SUNDAY LOCAL WALK

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

White Edge

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 9.5 miles

Mills, Mines, Monuments

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 8.0 miles

NOTTS. AREA AGM

Start:

Shipley Park

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 6.5 miles

10 WATERS WALK

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

TROWELL & ILKESTON

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 5.0 miles

The Old Grantham Canal and The Hook

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 4.9 miles

A blast from the past with a view of the River Trent

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 8.5 miles

Bookable - Hambleton in Winter (Hambleton Peninsula Rutland Water)

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 6.0 miles

Moorland Views

Start:

Difficulty:: Strenuous

Distance:: 8.5 miles

Shireoaks, Lindrick and Woodsetts

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 8.5 miles

Cromford - Matlock

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 8.0 miles

AWSWORTH BABBINGTON STRELLEY AWSWORTH

Start:

Difficulty:: Easy

Distance:: 4.0 miles

Lincoln Edge

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 9.0 miles

Monyash to Arbor Low

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 7.5 miles

Bookable: Woodborough

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 8.3 miles

Staunton Harold area

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 9.6 miles

In Roman footsteps

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 7.7 miles

BASLOW, Derbyshire

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Elvaston Castle

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 7.2 miles

GAMSTON

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

AROUND EAST BRIDGFORD

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 3.1 miles

Estate farmland, stream and lake

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 6.0 miles

Langold Country Park

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 9.0 miles

Bookable - Hickling Basin to Colston Bassett

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 7.5 miles

Willoughby on the Wolds

Start:

Difficulty:: Easy

Distance:: 5.0 miles

LINBY & NEWSTEAD ABBEY

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 5.5 miles

Civil War Trail

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 9.0 miles

Four H's and a W

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 11.0 miles

Bookable - Bestwood Country Park with a lovely lunch stop

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 8.3 miles

SUNDAY LOCAL WALK

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Belper to Cromford Linear walk

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 9.0 miles

“Stay on the Top”

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 8.0 miles

COLWICK RACECOURSE

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

LOWDHAM & EPPERSTONE

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 5.0 miles

COMMITTEE MEETING - THE PEACOCK

Start:

Foremark Reservoir

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 9.5 miles

BOOKABLE - The National Forest Way Stage 9, Overseal to Rosliston

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 11.0 miles

Trail and Mill Ponds

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 4.5 miles

BUDBY/SHERWOOD FOREST

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 5.5 miles

Bookable - Holme Pierrepont Circular

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 6.2 miles

Viking Way

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 8.5 miles

Vale of Belvoir

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 9.0 miles

BOOKABLE - Calke and the Ticknall Trail (but a bit different)

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 8.0 miles

RUTLAND WATER, Rutland

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Two abbeys and a church

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 9.5 miles

SWINDERBY TO COLLINGHAM

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Find out more

Join the Ramblers and enjoy

unlimited free access to 50,000 Ramblers group walks
a library jam-packed with thousands of tried-and-tested routes
a welcome pack teeming with top tips plus our Walk magazine
exclusive discounts from our partners
knowing your support is opening up more places to walk and helping more people discover the joy of walking

Join now for just £3.58 per month