Want to be able to go for off road walks without driving to reach them

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For my next move due to health consideration s I'd like to be able to go for nice circular walks away from traffic without needing to drive to get to them.
Ideally more than one different walk and ideally there would be a mud free walk option for wet days. I'm happy to walk for anything between 30 mins up to 2 hours max.
I'm not sure how unreasonable I am being in making this a non negotiable criteria for my next location. Do you know anywhere that would fit the bill? I'm open to anywhere in the UK.

People are all recommending places, but what you really need to do is find a place you’d like to live and then find a house close to footpaths and bridleways. You get little pockets which seem to be rammed with public rights of way, and others that have very few - and being urban or rural doesn’t seem to affect this as much as you might think!

Once you’ve settled on an area you’d like to live in, have a look at the ordnance survey maps for the area. You are looking for green dashed lines on a 1:25000 map or red dashed lines on a 1:50000. I’ll add a couple of examples so you can see what I mean.

First up, a local commons not far from where I live. This map covers about 8 square kilometres, and is riddled with walks.

This map covers about 10 square km, is rural and in a very attractive area, but has no walks at all. Rather sad really!

Im in kent and can do this from my house. Im on the outskirt of a town but a 10min walk along the streers lead me to a country park, the other direction leads me to the river and a little bit further in the other direction takes me to woodland where we can walk for a good hour using different well made tracks

This map is again about 10 square km and shows the edge of a medium sized town (Scarborough) where if you wanted to you could live on the edge of the town and yet within minutes be walking in the countryside.

Virtually anywhere in the UK will have places like this. I take part in a sort of orienteering-adventure racing sport, and some of the places I’ve competed over the years have taken me right up to the edge of towns like Oxford, Nottingham, Milton Keynes, Swindon, and there are lots more towns just the same.

The only thing I cannot help you on is the mud aspect. Suspect you’d have to move to a different country to not get mud!

Towns in the Dorset / Devon area on the coast. Beaches and countryside.

Lots of places like this. I’m slab bang in middle of commuter belt and can walk off road for four hours at least from my front door without crossing a road.

Edge of village bordering a nature reserve/ national trust land is what you need

I'm in North Bedfordshire and my village would certainly fit the bill

Northumberland where I live, the Lakes, the Yorkshire Dales - there are loads and loads of beautiful places you could choose. Lucky you.

I'm in cornwall and can do this, although your mud free requirement is a bit of an ask unless you have deep pockets and can buy close to a big sandy beach.

I took mud free to mean not trudging through tracks, but rather using maintained paths!

The north of Bolton is great for walking from your door , particularly Bromley cross , Sharples and harwood