Purley

Hiking routes around Purley

84 waymarked hiking routes run within 15 km of Purley: 1 international, 2 national, 23 regional and 58 local.

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Around Purley

3 national and international routes pass within 15 km, among them North Downs Way (254 km). London Outer Orbital Path passes through Purley: 24 sections with 244 km mapped in all, 62 km of them within 15 km. Green Chain Walk passes through Purley: 37 sections with 77 km mapped in all, 38 km of them within 15 km. Of the routes listed here, the longest is Greenwich Meridian Trail, 395 km from Peacehaven, East Sussex to Sand le Mere, East Yorkshire. Regional routes account for the largest share: 432 of the 802 km of waymarked route within 15 km. Most of the 58 local routes are short walks: 44 of them are under 10 km. TfL looks after 2 of the 12 routes listed here.

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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