Bedford

Hiking routes around Bedford

15 waymarked hiking routes run within 15 km of Bedford: 6 regional and 9 local.

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Around Bedford

No national or international trail comes within 15 km; the longest-distance routes here are regional. Ouse Valley Way passes through Bedford: 4 sections with 233 km mapped in all, 61 km of them within 15 km. North Bedfordshire Heritage Trail has more of its length here than any other route: 100 km within 15 km, of 112 km in all. Of the routes listed here, the longest is John Bunyan Trail, 137 km long. Regional routes account for the largest share: 319 of the 420 km of waymarked route within 15 km.

The routes with most of their length within 15 km

Each name opens the route on Waymarked Trails.

Good to know

  • Routes from Waymarked Trails, which draws the hiking routes mapped on OpenStreetMap (data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); counted on Oct 19, 2026.
  • Only routes someone has mapped as a route on OpenStreetMap are counted. Signposted paths no one has mapped, and walks without waymarks, are not.
  • Lengths within 15 km are measured on Waymarked Trails’ simplified lines and take in a route’s branches and variants; a path two routes share counts for each. A route’s length in all follows its main line along the mapped ways, and those marked “about” come from the simplified lines.

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