Enjoy the changing seasons with one or more of these wonderful tranquil woodland walks from Ryton Pools Country Park in Warwickshire.
Ryton Pools Country Park is located off the A445 between Rugby and Leamington Spa.
This former gravel quarry has been a 100 acre country park since 1986 with a visitor centre, a cafe, picnic areas, a bird hide, children’s play areas, bicycle hire and several accessible traffic free trails to follow.
In addition to the Country Park you also have access to a number of Warwickshire Wildlife Trust Nature Reserves.
Here you can explore several interconnected footpaths through semi ancient woodland. These include Bubbenhall, Wappenbury, Ryton and Old Nun Woods. These beautiful woods are part of the Princethope Woodland Landscape area and are managed to provide a varied habitat for wildlife and to improve access.
Bubbenhall wood
To get to Bubbenhall wood follow the path to your right behind the cafe and visitor centre.
Keep to the right and continue walking to the top of the hill where you see a shelter, turn left here and follow the path around. Take the narrow path on your right, (with Pagets Pool to your left)and follow it until you meet a lane called Bubbenhall Lane. Here turn right and then left into Bubbenhall Meadow. Walk through the meadow until you reach the open bird screen, continue walking and you will see a small car park.
There is a short woodland trail (about 30 minutes) from here taking you through these beautiful ancient woods.
Wappenbury and Old Nun Wood
Walk back through the meadow to the top of Bubbenhall Lane take the footpath on the right.
Here you will find Wappenbury Wood a large woodland which connects to the smaller Old Nun Wood.
You are unable to access these woods on Wednesdays or Saturdays as there are shooting rights on these days and no horse riding or dogs are allowed.
There are two marked circular walking trails here, one takes around 45 mins and there is a longer one of about one hour.
Ryton Wood
Ryton Wood is accessed by the path to the right of Pagets Pool just past the Sand Martin wall.
It is one of Warwickshire’s largest surviving semi natural woodlands and a Site of Special Scientific Interest known for its butterflies such as the Purple Hairstreak, rare moths and wildflowers.
There is a marked trail, Ryton wood figure of eight walk.
