People have been enjoying the Easter Weekend by taking a walk on the Malvern Hills.

A stroll on the hills is a traditional way to spend the Easter holidays for many - and Easter Saturday in particular offered the perfect weather to get out and about.

Others chose to stick with an Easter Sunday walk, an ideal way to counter the effects of some of that Easter egg indulgence.

 

While the hills are open to all, throughout the year, there are chances to take part in more organised events coming up.

Malvern Walking Festival, which will see more than 70 walks take place over nine days, will take place from Saturday, May 27 to Sunday, June 4.

As always, the walks take place mostly in and around the Malvern Hills – officially designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).

Some are a bit further afield in Worcestershire and Herefordshire.

 

There's also the Mayor's Peaks Challenge, which will raise funds for Guide Dogs.

It takes place on Saturday, April 29 and sees participants taking on one of two walks.

A 15km walk takes you the full length of the Malvern Hills, over all 17 peaks, while a shorter 7km route takes in the main section of the hills including its highest point, the Worcestershire Beacon.

 

Walks in the Malverns are regularly named in national polls ranking the most beautiful routes in the country.

One walk along the Malvern Hills ranked in seventh position in a poll of the most Instagrammable walks, above West Highland Way and the Yorkshire Three Peaks.

Keen photographers had used 1,185 hashtags per kilometre of the 8.6km route from the British Camp car park across the spine of the Malvern Hills, according to the 2021 survey.

 

By looking at the number of hashtags relating to popular UK walks, Premier Inn found the routes that have been shared on the photography platform the most.

They cross-referenced the data with the length of that particular route, to reveal which walks have been inspiring the most photos across the UK.

If exploring the town of Great Malvern is more your thing, you're also in luck.

 

Malvern Civic Society hosts walks where attendees learn about how the water cure and spa flourished in the nineteenth Century, the mediaeval Priory and Elgar's connections with Malvern.

The walks last approximately 90 minutes and run on most Saturdays and Mondays (including most Bank Holidays) at 10.30am from until Saturday, September 30.