Find a Bluebell Walk Near You
Posted on 23/04/10
The bluebell season is starting now. Here’s how to pinpoint a spectacular stroll.
Chilterns Conservation Board
Here’s a good place to begin: the Arlington Bluebell Walk near Polegate in East Sussex, is open now for the start of the bluebell season, with proceeds going to a different charity each day. The route is fully accessible to buggies, wheelchairs and mobility scooters. Refreshments are available, provided by the duty charity, and there is also a daily mini-farmers’ market.
National Trust properties are the natural first stop for bluebells throughout the whole of the south east. A quarter of their woodland is ancient or semi-natural – ideal for bluebells to flourish. As the cold winter has delayed the start of the season in some areas, the Trust has set up Bluebell Watch which is now up and running on its website to let us know where and when the bluebells are at their best.
The Ramblers Bluebell Strolls Season is also underway, with guided walks in Buckinghamshire, Surrey, Hampshire, East and West Sussex and Kent. In all, there are over 100 walks nationwide. The expert-led walks are free, open to all, and offer a chance to see some of Britain’s most beautiful woodland and countryside at its loveliest. Although the walks vary in length and grading, from family-friendly 5 mile walks to more a demand 14 miles, all take in swathes of beautiful bluebells.
The programme is part of an ongoing campaign with the Natural History Museum to understand how climate changes and other factors are introducing hybrid varieties amongst the traditional deep blue hue of our favourite flowers. Walkers enjoying a Bluebell Stroll are encouraged to help ‘spot’ the different types of bluebells and enter their findings onto the Museum’s online survey. The data is then used to build a map of where and when different types of bluebells are flowering.
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