Length: up to 4.5 km
Ascent: negligible
Net Walking Time: up to 1 hour (not including time spent at fairs and
markets)
Meet: Canada Water Station (Library Exit at street level!!!) at 17.00 hours (Jubilee Line and Overground, Zone 2).
Finish is
at Rotherhithe Overground (1.6 km), Bermondsey Underground (3.1 km) or London
Bridge Mainline and Underground stations. All are in Zone 2 or 1. Bus stops are
never far away.
Meet at the Library Exit and walk the brand-spanking new Canada Water Boardwalk,
then circle around the Water back to the station and pick up SWC Short Walk
Rotherhithe (away from the river) for a very short stretch. At Albion Street,
turn left to the Norsk Sjømanskirken/Norwegian Seaman’s Church for their
Julebasar
(Christmas Market), which closes at 18.00. Then walk two doors down back
along the road to the Suomen Merimieskirrko/Finnish Church’s equivalent Christmas
Fair, which closes at 20.00.
From there cross the Rotherhithe Tunnel towards the Overground Station
(1.6 km into the walk), then pass through the historic Rotherhithe village,
passing some famous pubs and continuing along the Thames through North Bermondsey
and Shad Thames to Tower Bridge and the now empty former Town Hall and on to
London Bridge Station. On this last stretch we venture through the Winter
by the River fair, which closes at 22.00.
Eat/Drink: Some legendary London riverside
pubs en route and
many food stalls, pubs and restaurants near the end. T=short.54.a
1 comment:
7 walkers met at the library exit as posted, although as the walk poster I have to admit that it isn't actually signed as such when emerging from the station (mea culpa). Those 7 included 1 early-days-of-the-SWC walker that hadn't been on a group walk for a very long time.
After the usual 5 minutes grace period we got started across the rather magnificent 'boardwalk' over Canada Water (well done, British Land and Southwark Council), where we were caught up by an 8th walker.
At the Norwegian Xmas market we met number n=9 who had gotten delayed en route by troubles on the 'Windrush Line' (formerly known as the Overground).
Here and at the subsequent Finnish Xmas Fair, we purchased this and that and consumed this and that, before moving on through Rotherhithe Village. 1 had to leave though for a pre-booked evening entertainment.
We did stop at The Angel for a drink on the terrace overhanging The Thames. 2 then left to go home (the SWC Rotherhithe couple).
The remaining 6 strode on through Bermondsey and Shad Thames to 'More London' as we are supposed to call it these days, where dozens of huts selling street food or Xmas knick-knacks were lined up, accompanied by a glasshouse or two, one a drink and music establishment, the other a curling pitch (!).
2 then departed home, while the remaining 4 headed for The Market Porter in Borough Market, partly in memoriam of a recently departed SWC walker.
w=dry-and-clear
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