Length: 6.8 km (4.3 mi)
Net Walking Time: 1 ½ - 2 hours
Meet: St’ James’s Park Station at 18.45 hours
(Broadway exit, at street level). St. James’s Park Station is a stop on the
District and Circle Lines.
Finish: Embankment Station, a stop on the District
and Circle Lines as well as the Northern (Charing Cross Branch) and Bakerloo
Lines and very close to Charing Cross Mainline Station.
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: Numerous options en route and at the end. Check the pdf for
details.
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