Bluebells on Waseley Thursday short walk

Join this leisurely ramble with a Birmingham Ramblers group leader and enjoy social walking with our friendly members.

It is very helpful for the walk leader to have prior knowledge of numbers that will be on this walk. We ask you to complete this very brief form to help with our planning of the walk to ensure that we can safely accommodate all who wish to join us. You will receive an automatic acknowledgement when you submit this form.

To express your interest in this walk:

- click the blue + symbol above to increase the ticket count to 1 - only one ticket can be booked per booking since we ask for the name of each walker - then click Next

- on the following page click the Checkout button then complete the questions, click the Accept box and press the Confirm button. You will receive an automatic acknowledgement when you submit this form.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DURATION OF THIS EVENT SHOWN ABOVE IS ONLY APPROXIMATE AND CANNOT BE GUARANTEED; IT WILL DEPEND ON FACTORS SUCH AS THE WEATHER AND THE WALKING PACE OF THE GROUP.

This is a 3.25mile walk with a total ascent over the whole walk of 350 feet featuring the bluebells in Sedgbourne Coppice.

Walk leader: Brenda Cameron

If driving: meet at Waseley Hills Visitor Centre (B45 9AT) at 11.00 am. Parking charge £3 at the centre’s carpark. Or some roadside parking alongside.
By public transport: From the city centre by bus - Bus 63 at 9.32 am from stop NS3 outside New Street Station on Smallbrook Ringway. There is another bus at 9.44 am. It is approximately a 50-minute journey to the junction of Boleyn Road and Crompton Road, Rubery. Please alight at this stop where the walk leader will meet bus passengers and walk with them to the visitor centre (15-20mins) to join the rest of the party. For the return journey the leader will walk with passengers back to the bus stop.

From the visitor centre we follow the “Rabbit Trail” one of the routes on Waseley Hill.  Some easy uphill to start enjoying the views then downhill using a cut staircase into a lovely cup-shaped open valley. We soon arrive at Sedgbourne Coppice and take a slow walk through this wooded area to – if the timing is right! – enjoy the sight and fragrance of bluebells which certainly in the past few years have been plentiful in the coppice. As said, we walk along slowly with opportunities to take photos or just to savour the sight and scents. We leave the coppice behind for another easy ascent to the topographic point marking the top of the hill where we can pause and identify features near and far.  We turn back now on a different part of the ridge giving us extensive views to the west as we walk along this flat track.  Next is more woodland then open country again still enjoying beautiful views west. At some point on the walk we will have a short break. We circle round the end of the hill and our final short ascent then a slowly descending track north-east brings us to the source of the River Rea – a small fenced off scrubby area but we may just see a puddle among the scrub where the Rea begins! A stroll back to the visitor centre completes the walk then it’s time for drinks and snacks.

Expressions of interest for this walk will close at 06.00 on Tuesday 16 April 2024. After this, please email bhamramblersenquiries@gmail.com to enquire about any late availability for the walk.

If you later find that you are unable to join us it would be helpful if you let us know by sending an email to bhamramblersenquiries@gmail.com or let us know though our contact form at https://cobra.eventcube.io/support/contact - this will be passed on to the walk leader and will prevent any delay to the start of the walk should the leader be waiting for you.

General Information

This is one of several walks and activities offered by the Birmingham Ramblers. If you have found this page through a web search or other means and would like to find out more about the group then please visit the Birmingham Ramblers web site; new members are always welcome.