Category: Walk Review

Erith has a pier which although it is just for walking and fishing, provides nice views of the Thames.

The walk has lots of views of the Dartford Crossing over the Thames but is also quite industrial until the long winding walk through Crayford Marshes, where you see some horses, reeds, some industrial buildings and the small rivers Darent and Cray.

Crayford has a large Aldi and Sainsburys, just off the walking route with toilets, but while Aldi only had one toilet, Sainsbury’s had many.

Then there was a park and more walking by a small river, followed by a complicated route to get to the other side of a dual carriageway and railway line to some woods. The woods were quiet and had lots of nice bluebells.

Finally, I emerged into Bexley where there was a church with a slightly odd-looking steeple, and then onto the station.

7/10

https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/walking/falconwood-to-grove-park

This shorter section included woodlands, parks, medieval palace/art deco mansion and some great views of the London skyline. As with section 1, some of the signposts were shared with other walking routes, which sometimes made it harder to work out which way to go.

7/10

https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/walking/woolwich-to-falconwood

This walk starts at the south side of Woolwich foot tunnel and ends at Falconwood Station.

It includes sights such as the Woolwich ferry, views of London, a secret children’s zoo, a castle, hills, valleys, woodlands and open spaces.

It was reasonably well signed, but the fact the Capital Ring shared signs with the Thames Path, Green Chain, Charlton Tour, and Severndroog Tour and in post designs varied, made it hard at times to work out which signs to follow sometimes. It also sometimes felt the routes were a bit odd and weren’t always the most direct routes even through parks and green spaces.

There were some good discoveries on this route, but at times it was a bit muddy in the woodlands.

7/10

This was, unfortunately, due to be the last Walk London weekend where free led/guided walks are conducted across the capital to encourage people to walk more.

This was an interesting walk along the Thames Path on the south side between Vauxhall Station and the south side of Putney Bridge.  It included a couple of parks, a tunnel boring machine, a peace pagoda, a power station, a cats and dogs home and a lor of bridges.

9/10

This enjoyable guided walk included Fulham Place, Fulham football ground of Craven Cottage, the former Harrods furniture depository and Hammersmith Bridge.

7/10

This short walk was a circular tour from the Royal Exchange near Bank station. It included random facts about the people who had lived or worked in the area.

Interesting walk around Kingston upon Thames where you learn a little about the history of the area.

8/10

This was a very good walk that looked at the various buildings on a route between Pimlico and the South side of West Minster Bridge.

The tour was led by Ian and Katie who took turns to talk about the various sites and act as back marker, which was a good idea and I haven’t seen this on other walks before.

They talked about Millbank prison and the possible origin of the Australian term “pom” (Prisoner of Millbank), The Tate galleries, Millbank Tower, MI5, a little about Mi6, the changing skyline of London, Lambeth Bridge, the former St Georges Wharf, the London Fire Brigade’s former HQ and future museum, the Royal Doulton Factory,  the new art galleries in Newport Street Lambeth, the Garden Museum, Lambeth Palace, and Parliament, and much more.

The walk was very entertaining and informative.

10/10

This was part of the free Walk London Spring into Summer weekend.

The guide was  grump, slow (the second group overtook us), and gave the wrong information on more than one occasion with people on the walking tour correcting her.

The walk description suggested that it would show film and TV locatiobs but at a numbrr of stops she seemed to just suggest it would be a good location for fiing but that she didn’t kniw of any filming atbthat location.

She called King’s Cross Brent Cross,  Ian McKellan Kenneth and David Mitchell David Williams and others too.

Also when people said they couldn’t hear her she sad it was a free walk and lots of people had booked so what do different we expect – rather than the planners laying on extra groups for the tour if they are unable to cope with 50 on a tour.
4/10