Length: 6.0 km (3.7
mi)
Net Walking Time: 1 ½ hrs
Meet: Wanstead Station, at 18.45 hours. Wanstead is a station on
the Hainault loop of the Central Line in Zone 4. Travel time from Oxford Circus
is 27 minutes, and from Liverpool Street 17 minutes.
Leafy stroll in the Borough of Redbridge through the Grade II* listed historic
landscaped parkland of Wanstead Park, once home to the Palladian mansion of
Wanstead House, compared at the time to Blenheim Palace. Today only two smaller
structures, The Grotto and The Temple, remain (and the House itself stood on
what is now a golf course), but nevertheless the present smaller park retains
some of the layout of Wanstead House’s grounds, especially its many ponds, and
provides a perfect venue for relaxing and escaping the urban sprawl, with its
plentiful water features and varied woods, famous for their bluebell displays
in season.
The park closes ‘at dusk’.
Eat/Drink: Plenty of options near the station. See webpage for details.
For walk directions, map, photos, and gpx/kml files click here. T=short.11
1 comment:
Just n=3 today on a w=cold-but-dry evening.
Fine dry paths and spring-ey woods made for a fine stroll at good pace and 80 minutes later we were back at Wanstead Station, having done a few extra loops through Chalet Wood, where the bluebells are. Plentiful they were but a bit dried out and - under the grey skies - a tad darkish blue. Destination then: The Cuckfield, as per usual.
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