Hiking routes around Northampton

No national or international trail comes within 15 km; the longest-distance routes here are regional. Grand Union Canal Walk passes through Northampton: 7 sections with 273 km mapped in all, 28 km of them within 15 km. Northamptonshire Round has more of its length here than any other route: 89 km within 15 km. Of the routes listed here, the longest is Macmillan Way, 402 km long. Regional routes account for the largest share: 167 of the 257 km of waymarked route within 15 km.

• Northamptonshire RoundLocal89 km within 15 km
• Midshires WayRegional59 km within 15 km · 364 km in all
• Nene WayRegional39 km within 15 km · 182 km in all
• Grand Union Canal WalkRegional · 7 sections28 km within 15 km · 273 km in all
• Milton Keynes Boundary WalkRegional26 km within 15 km · 104 km in all · Stony Straford to Stony Stratford
• Hanslope Circular RideRegional9.1 km within 15 km · 32 km in all
• Macmillan WayRegional · MWA4.9 km within 15 km · 402 km in allMacmillan Way Association
• Olney Circular WalkLocal0.8 km within 15 km · about 6.8 km in all

Each name opens the route on Waymarked Trails.

• 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.

How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Hiking routes