Plantsbook Nature Reserve Saturday Short Walk on 15 August 2026

P LEASE 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.

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

It is essential that the walk leader has 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, and also a reminder of the details 2 days before the walk.

Walk leader: Katharine Jackson

Distance/time: 7.4km (4.6m) gentle river side walk, almost entirely flat, taking about 3 hours (including coffee and lunch stops).

Meeting arrangements:

Meeting/starting point: Meet the leader at bus stop CS1 on Upper Corporation St (by the law courts) at 9.45 am to catch bus X14 at 9.57 am

If driving: meet in the car park at Plants Brook Nature Reserve (off Eachelhurst Road, B76 1EJ) at 10.20 am. Walk departs at 10.30 am from the car park.

Walk Description:

The walk takes a figure of eight route along the boardwalks of this beautiful hidden nature reserve where many kinds of water birds and plants can be seen on the different lakes. There are lakeside benches for coffee and heron spotting at the end. We then cross the road into Pype Hayes Park and follow Plants Brook into Newhall Valley Country Park. Please note there are no public loos en route but on the corner of Wylde Green road (next to Bark Co) we pass a small cafe, Bark Bistro, which serves hot & cold drinks and snacks (sandwiches, jacket potatoes etc). They have a staff loo which they say customers may use. Finally, we follow a boardwalk back round and through to the main road at Thimble End. Here we can catch an X14 bus which goes back to the city centre past Plantsbrook where people with cars parked at the start point can get off. Lunch options: the walk should finish at approx 1-1.30 pm. Walkers who want to eat can either bring a picnic or buy a snack at Bark Bistro.

Bookings for this walk will close at 06.00 on Thursday 13 August. After this, please email [email protected] to enquire about any late availability for the walk.

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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 [email protected] - 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. Please note that some walks have a waiting list so tickets are NOT TRANSFERABLE; if you are unable to join us then please cancel your place to free it up for someone who may be on the waiting list rather than passing it to someone else.

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.