Best Walking Trails & Routes in Ilford

There are several entrances and so several routes around Valentines Park and so your journey through or around it could be very different to the one I have here! You could stay around the core of the park with its playgrounds, gym, cricket pitch, tennis courts, mansion house 🏠 and lake, or you could widen and lengthen your walk and scour the edges where you would pass much of the above but also pass open fields, woodland trees and a few secluded areas! It’s is so beautiful and during the early summer you will find some swan and geese with their young! Enjoy 💖💚💖

Walk around Wanstead Park Spring afternoon. Wanstead golf course side.

This park is relatively small but very well used at all times with many walkers or runners 🏃🏿‍♀️ in the morning and children and adults relaxing later. Thus it is better for a morning fast walk or an afternoon stroll! 💚🏃🏿‍♀️💚

This route is a short and simple one which also gives a few opportunities to extend it! On Roding Lane just opposite the turn to your right into Marston Road, you can enter a vast green area that is used for Rugby on a Sunday morning only but is otherwise free to walk around in if one wishes to! Later on when walking 🚶🏿‍♀️at the end of Caterham Avenue where you turn right into Clayhall Avenue, there is a large pub (The Unicorn) with an outdoor area where you can pause for a drink 🥃 and a sit down if you wish! 😂 A short but interesting walk which also takes you past lovely houses 🏘 and past other walkers too!

A gentle walk through the local area! Many beautiful houses 🏠 and gardens 🌿🌳🌸 can be seen along the way!

💚💚Quiet 🤫 Steps is So called because you can walk freely along the pathways and yet it is somewhat secluded, quiet, beautiful and tranquil! Even the grassed playground feels like an exclusive hideaway that you unexpectedly stumble across! Yet it is not that big! There is a lot of grassland; cultivated and wild with a lake too! There are several entrances to this park in addition to the access by Roding Lane North shown here! So you have choices! Enjoy! 💚💚💚

This park is relatively small but very well used at all times with many walkers or runners 🏃🏿‍♀️ in the morning and children and adults relaxing later. Thus it is better for a morning fast walk or an afternoon stroll! 💚🏃🏿‍♀️💚

This is a simple walk but has a slight challenge in that there is a good hill going up in one direction and the relief of a downhill walk in the other direction where you can go faster! It is mainly along a main road but it is still beautiful and green throughout the whole journey as you can see from the pictures!

There are several entrances and so several routes around Valentines Park and so your journey through or around it could be very different to the one I have here! You could stay around the core of the park with its playgrounds, gym, cricket pitch, tennis courts, mansion house 🏠 and lake, or you could widen and lengthen your walk and scour the edges where you would pass much of the above but also pass open fields, woodland trees and a few secluded areas! It’s is so beautiful and during the early summer you will find some swan and geese with their young! Enjoy 💖💚💖