Selly Oak to Woodgate Valley 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 FINISHING TIME 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.

Walk leader: John Chapman

We meet at 10.30 am, at the small car park on the corner of Gibbins Road and Harborne Lane (nearest postcode B29 6PG). It’s on the route of the No. 11, X21 and 20 buses. There are too few spaces in car park where we are meeting to guarantee a space, so public transport to this location may be your best bet. (If you do come by car and you cannot find a space in the aforementioned car park, you may wish to risk parking in the Selly Oak Shopping Park [which is diagonally opposite our meeting point]. This provides 4 hours of free parking. When the leader previously walked this route with a group, he found that they got back with perhaps a half an hour spare before the 4 hours were up; I cannot guarantee of course that we can do so on this occasion. Shopping Park Post Code is B29 6SJ).

This 5-mile walk takes us along the Bourne Brooke Walkway and into Woodgate Valley Country Park. The route back goes past the Weoley Castle and along the now defunct Lapal Canal. The walk is mainly flat, there are three short stretches of pavement walking and some short stretches of surprisingly mild mud!

Expressions of interest for this walk will close at 06.00 on Tuesday 30 July. After this, please email bhamramblersenquiries@gmail.com or contact us through our contact form at https://cobra.eventcube.io/support-hub/contact 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-hub/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.