Net Walking Time: 1 ½ - 2 hours
Meet: Lancaster Gate Station at 18.45 hours
(at street level). Lancaster Gate is on the Central Line and a short
walk from Paddington Station.
Finish: St. James’s Park Station, a stop on the District
and Circle Lines.
Both stations as well as the whole route are within Zone 1.
The blurb for the full route, split over two Thursdays:
“In 1807, London was the first city in the world to
light its streets by gas, which was much cheaper and produced brighter lights
than the previously used candles or oil lamps. More than 200 years later, there
are still about 1,300 gas-fuelled street lights left, bathing their
surroundings in a markedly warmer, yellower glow than electric lights. About
270 of those are in the City of Westminster, preserved after a campaign to stop
the Council from replacing them all on cost grounds.
This meandering route through the Royal Parks of the
West End, St. James’s, Westminster, Whitehall, Covent Garden, St. Giles and the
Embankment passes a fair few of those gaslights, while leading through parks, squares
and courtyards and along alleyways, secret passages, lanes, paths and (mainly)
residential streets, while also passing numerous well-known and not so
well-known sites of historical, architectural or political interest, many of
which will be new even to born Londoners.
The route is rewarding in light as well as in
darkness, as some of the parks and alleyways are closed at night, while some of
the gaslights in those areas are on even during the day.”
Eat/Drink: Plenty of options en route plus at the end The Two
Chairmen (Greene King), The Sanctuary House Hotel (Fuller’s), the Blue Boar, The
Feathers (Nicholson’s) or The Old Star (Greene King).
For walk directions, map, photos and gpx/kml files click here . T=short.68
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