This enjoyable 7.7 mile circular walk starts from the car park of the historic Crofton Beam Engine pumping station. It was built to keep the Kennet & Avon Canal summit supplied with water and is supposed to be the "oldest working beam engine in the world still in its original engine house and capable of actually doing the job for which it was installed."

The route follows the canal to the North of Burbage and encounters some interesting features along the way, including the Bruce tunnel and Burbage Wharf.

A 7.2 mile circular walk atop the Marlborough Downs and passing through Fyfield Down Nature Reserve. Here you'll see the Grey Wethers or Sarsen Stones, neolithic limestone blocks left over from the last ice age.

Fyfield Down also has some of the rarest lichen in the country.

The route includes a lovely valley track and is mostly well drained apart from a couple of sections used by 4x4's.

There is free parking at Preshute Down car park, near the White Horse hill figure.

A 7.9 mile circular walk that follows the Ridgeway for part of it's length and reaches Barbury Castle, an Iron age hill fort, which was first occupied about 2,500 years ago and, in good weather, has views across the Cotswolds some distance away.

We started the walk from Ogbourne St-George and walked anti-clockwise, stopping for a bite to eat at Banbury Castle.

The Ridgeway can get busy on nice summer days but the routes off it are quieter.