Further information is available on the festival website linked below or from the Tourist Information Centres in Malvern, Upton-upon-Severn or Tenbury Wells. You can also book and pay at Malvern Tourist Information Centre, if preferred (but don’t delay as many walks sell out quickly).
The 20th anniversary Malvern Walking Festival is taking place from Saturday 24 May to Sunday 1 June 2025 and the website is now open for bookings.
All the walks take place either in and around the Malvern Hills – officially designated a National Landscape (previously AONB) – or a bit further afield in Worcestershire and Herefordshire. Which? magazine recently voted the Malvern Hills as having the “best walk in the Midlands” with 4 stars awarded for the walks and scenery.
There are over 60 walks available over the 9 days, providing plenty of choice for everyone. There are multi-day walks, all day walks, and shorter half-day walks either in the morning, afternoon or evening. A lot of the walks are also themed including wartime Malvern, Malvern’s water cure, farming, quarrying, geology, local history, beer & pubs and gardens, to mention a few.
Each walk is graded from Gentle to Strenuous so no one need let themselves in for more than they can handle. The single-day walks range from 1 mile around Great Malvern in 90 minutes to the iconic 20-mile Malvern Hills End to End and Back. There are also multi-day walks covering the whole of the Worcestershire Way and the Hereford to Worcester section of the Three Choirs Way.
Commenting on the programme, Festival Chairman Peter Reynolds said: “The 2025 Festival will be our 20th anniversary since we started in 2004 and we are now one of the biggest in southern England. Last year we sold-out and received dozens of letters from walkers saying how much they enjoyed Malvern and the surrounds. But we also received too many letters from walkers saying how disappointed they were not to be able to book onto their chosen ramble as it was sold out. I therefore urge everybody to book early to save being disappointed.
We’re also pleased to confirm that we will again be supporting the Worcester Air Ambulance charity, although of course we sincerely hope we will have no need of their services anytime soon.”