Reading Walks Festival
11-19 May 2024
Welcome to the Reading Walks Festival 2024. We are delighted to share nearly 50 walks with you over the nine days of the festival, bringing alive the stories, heritage and landscapes of Reading and the surrounding countryside through a series of guided walks.
Our emphasis for the Reading Walks Festival is as much about telling the stories of Reading as walking for its own pleasure, so you’ll find that our volunteer guides have lots to share with you along the way. Our walks range from one-hour short walks to a 2-day pilgrimage. The majority of the programme of walks cost just £3.
See What's On Events (for a full list of the walks), FAQs, About Us, Getting There, Accessibility and other links below for full information about the Festival and each walk.
Explore
Accessible walks
Our aim is for the Reading Walks Festival to be as accessible as possible.
All our walk leaders have assessed whether their walk is accessible, by which we mean the walk features smooth(ish!) pathways with ramps (if there are steps) and wide entrances for individuals with mobility challenges. Accessible walks will be identified in the walk description.
However, we do recommend that you get in touch with us if you have any accessibility queries about a specific walk because access requirements differ from person to person.
The following list shows accessible walks; see the individual walk descriptions for more detail. If in doubt, please contact us and we will check more detail with the individual walk leader.
Abbey Quarter Walking Tours - 17 May
Historic Reading Walking Tour - 16 May
Mindful Mouse's Magical Meander - 18 May
Reading at War - 19 May
Reading in the Time of Jane Austen - 14 & 19 May
A Reading Miscellany - 11 & 15 May
Reading - the Home of Photography - 13 May
Sensory Walk and Talk: Forests, Farms, and Forest Bathing - 17 & 18 May
Step-Free 3 Bridge Stroll - 13 & 19 May
The Gentlemen Danes - 18 May
Town Centre and Thames Parks Trees - 12 May
University Heritage Trail - London Road - 18 May
Victoria Park Walkabout - 14 May
Wellbeing Walking Bingo - 13 & 17 May
Wild Workout Wander - 18 May
Wonder of Waterhouse - 15 May
