Windsor Great Park: Savill Gardens & Virginia Water
Start & Finish: The Savill Garden Wick Lane, Englefield Green, Egham, TW20 0UJ
Distance: 7.8 km (4.8 miles)
Elevation change: +/- 66m
GPX File: get via Buy Me a Coffee
Other routes touched: none
Pubs / Cafes on route: Savill Garden Kitchen inside the Visitors’ Centre
Map: OS Explorer Map (160) Windsor, Weybridge & Bracknell
Links: Windsor, Windsor Great Park
This is an easy navigable walk on the southern end of Windsor Great Park. There’s a big car park at Savill Garden which makes it an obvious place to start. An alternative is the Virgina Water Lake Visitor Centre car park on the A30. Both are expensive but free parking is hard to find around there.
From Savill Garden take the south gate from the car park and continue due south for ~1km until you reach the Totem Pole. Virgina Water Lake starts to the south-east of the Totem Pole. Cross the footbridge and stay on the lake-side path continuing clockwise to the Blacknest corner in the south-west end of the park. Continue clock-wise, crossing Five Arch Bridge, now heading north-east. Cross the bridge the connects Johnson’s Pond to Virgina Water onto High Flyer’s Hill. Be careful here to stay on the north-east track rather than the road heading north into Guards Polo Club. Eventually you’ll reach Rhododendron Drive, connecting with the east side of Obelisk Pond and back to Savill Garden.
