Your day starts near a small Museum (free admission) where, if you want, you can learn the history of the Crystal Palace. Next stop, the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs – modelled as Victorians saw them. If you survive this encounter, the walk continues through the last remnants of the ancient North Wood, past the Dulwich Picture Gallery (admission £20 with exhibition- open 10-5) and, near the end, passes the Horniman Museum with its unusual collections (open to 5.30pm, free admission). Their natural history gallery is closed for refurbishment.
Trains: Get to Crystal Palace Station for 11:00 a.m.
There’s the 10:28 from London Bridge (destination Victoria) arriving Crystal Palace at 10:52. Or the 10:19 from Victoria ( Clapham Jct 10:28) (destination London Bridge) arriving Crystal Palace at 10:50 Both stations are also served by London Overground trains starting from Highbury & Islington. The 10:12 from there arrives Crystal Palace 10:55
Frequent Overground trains from Forest Hill towards Highbury and Islington, as well as proper trains to London Bridge or Victoria.
Crystal Palace is in in TfL Zones 3/4, and Forest Hill in Zone 3.
Lunch
On the Main Walk the suggested lunchtime pub is the Crown and Greyhound (020-8299 4976) at 73 Dulwich Village, after 8 km.
An earlier option (and the only convenient pub on the Short Walk) is the Wood House (020-8693 5666) at 39 Sydenham Hill Road.
Tea
There is a good café at the Horniman Museum, plus several places on London Road as you approach Forest Hill station, including a delicatessen, The Teapot, at #56, open to 5pm.
Directions here
The walk can be cut short at various points with directions to nearby stations. If you wanted a very short 7km (4.3 miles) walk you could cut out the entire loop through Dulwich.
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N=8 at the station. The day started w=dry-even-sunny-getting-slightly-damper-pm (not what Mr Tiger would b call ‘rain’ though).
Though carefully timed to coincide with the little museum being open, it wasn’t.
So off we went through all the dinosaurs and prehistoric beasties Then on, through Sydenham Hill Wood, eventually reaching Dulwich Village and the lunch pub.
Fortune shone on Mr Tiger. Not only did one kindly benefactor buy him a drink, two others plied him with chips. Life was good.
There, we bumped into two others who were doing a shorter version of the walk. So n=10 innit?
The group fragmented later, with 2 lagging behind. The front group went into the Horniman the back 2 went on ‘to catch them up’.
There was a brief reunion of sorts in the Dartmouth Arms (wacky decor music a bit loud).
Then home.
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