Length: 6.3 km with 124m ascent/descent
Net Walking Time: ca. 1 ½ hours
Take the 18.17
Southeastern service from Cannon Street (London Bridge 18.22,
then via Lewisham (18.33) and Blackheath), arriving Falconwood 18.46.
From Victoria, take the 18.03 Dartford train via Denmark Hill, Peckham Rye and Nunhead,
arriving Falconwood at 18.39.
Return trains : xx.10
to Charing Cross, 20.25 and xx.55 to Cannon Street, xx.17 and xx.48 to
Victoria (change at Lewisham for London Bridge). Falconwood is in Zone 4.
This is an undulating route in the Royal Borough of
Greenwich through several mostly ancient woodlands with a rich variety of
plants and trees, up the southerly flank of Shooter’s Hill, past a large south
facing meadow with far views across South East London (and a (daytime) café)
and on through more woods past remnants of a stately home’s gardens to the
architecturally interesting folly of Severndroog Castle, with its (daytime) tearoom.
The descent back to the station passes another terraced garden and drops along Oxleas Meadows to cross over into Shepherdleas Woods for the return to Falconwood station.
Tea: The Falcon A Harvester pub right by the station.
For walk directions, map, photos, height profile and gpx/kml files click here . T=short.44
1 comment:
n=8 walkers on a w=sunny evening.
The bluebells were in good form (although there are never as many as the hype around Oxleas Wood would suggest), the viewpoints to the south were well worth their money, and the tree foliage, birdsong and warm climes made for an all-in very pleasant walk, not to forget the company.
We arrived back at the station just as the doors were closing on a train, so all decamped to The Falcon, which has had a near miraculous transformation since we've last been: fully refurbished and also with a refurbished menu, from which everyone that wanted to eat found a quite satifying option.
4 then also went to the micropub opposite, The Lingfield.
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