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I walked from Slough to Beaconsfield.
Agree with previous reviewers.
Quite a lot of tarmac walking, although most is traffic free, there was some walking-in-the-road parts I didn't enjoy.

I did spend some time in the woods trying to find a route N - S through and avoiding roads. The woods (Burnham Beeches and Egypt Woods) were stunning and there were plenty of good paths, access land and permissive paths (not a waste of time at all). But all paths through Healy's Gorse were marked private. All routes therefore returned to the SlowWays route. I tried.

But not a bad walk and it does get you from A to B avoiding traffic and making good use of pedestrian passages and views of green space.

I walked from Slough to Beaconsfield. Unsurprisingly for a route connecting two towns, a significant amount of it is urban, or semi-urban, but there's a reasonable amount of greenery too.
I wouldn't recommend the route for anything wheeled - there are a number of kissing gates and stiles, and some of the terrain is very uneven.
Some sections are mostly on-road - while the roads in question were quiet when I walked them (a Sunday lunchtime in March), they might be busier at other times.

I was surprised to see several baseball diamonds, until I discovered that Farnham Park is the national baseball and softball centre. Another rather odd discovery was the hamlet called 'Egypt', just to the northeast of Burnham Beeches.

Living in Farnham Common, I regularly do the section to Slough and occasional onward to Windsor. As the previous reviewer said, the Slough section is rather mundane running along the back lanes, but at least it’s away from the main road.

The walk to and from Beaconsfield is roughly 1.5 hours and predominantly off road with the exception of a short element at the top of Burnham Beeches, which needs to be handled with a little care during the school run or rush hour.

I walked this on a warm but overcast Saturday, from Beaconsfield to Slough.

It starts from Beaconsfield station and then after going through some alleys past the church. There is a little path to the right side of the road which is much more pleasant, until you go over the M40. Then there are some fields and some woods. One was full of fancy motorcycles and tents. Although there is a nice looking wide path into Egypt Wood, there is a big fence, so you have to walk east along a lane, which has no pavement, but wasn't very busy. From there on you can then follow a public/permission/public footpath through the woods to come out on Egypt Lane. For most of the walk along this road, there is a footpath separated from the road by (many) trees. After crossing Beaconsfield road, there is a little bit more lane walking before you need to find a footpath that gets you out onto Farnham Park. At the bottom you go through a hedge and turn left onto a narrow path with a hedge and a fence on each side, to come out on Park Road that you need to cross. From here there is a cycle route that gets you through Godolphin, Baylis, and Salt Hill parks to get onto the busy Bath Road which you follow towards the end at Slough station.

It's quite a good route, but minus points for the urban section of Slough. There is a little lane walking, but I never felt it unsafe.

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