Reading Walks Festival

About

Welcome to the Reading Walks Festival 2025. This year’s programme, which takes place between 10-18 May, is more diverse than ever and includes 50 walks in and around Reading plus two bike rides and a talk.

Each walk in the Reading Walks Festival is led by a local volunteer and is designed to bring to life the stories, heritage, wildlife and landscapes of Reading and the surrounding countryside. 

The focus of the festival is as much about telling the stories of Reading as walking for its own pleasure, but there will be some walks for exercise as well as social walks and many walks that will tell you something new about Reading.

The festival features walks for all abilities, ranging in length from a one-hour wellbeing stroll to a two-day pilgrimage and there are also walks that are family friendly and wheelchair accessible in the programme.

The 2025 Reading Walks Festival programme is very diverse with the majority of the walks being new for 2025. Look out for new walks focusing on the Kendrick Conservation Area or the wonderful trees of Redlands in East Reading, Reading’s literary connections in the town centre, amble through Caversham, take a tour of Station Hill’s new public art works or walk in George Orwell’s footsteps north of the river, learn about bats, wildflowers or Reading’s nature reserves or venture further afield to Silchester, Pangbourne, Shiplake or into South Oxfordshire to explore the lovely countryside around Reading.