Length: 6.3 km
Ascent/Descent:
155/100m
Net
Walking Time: 1 ½ hours
Toughness:
2 out of 10
Meet
at 18.30
outside Finsbury Park Station, Station Place/National Rail Exit (Victoria
and Piccadilly Lines, Thameslink from St. Pancras and Mainline Rail from King’s
Cross, Zone 2).
Finish
is at Highgate Underground (Northern Line, High Barnet Branch, Zone 3).
Walk
up from the transfer hub that is Finsbury Park along a dismantled railway line
to Highgate, and either finish immediately or loop through the undulating Queen’s
Wood, remnant of the ancient Forest of Middlesex, in one of the highest parts
of Inner North London. Queen’s
Wood has a wild, little managed and challenging feel and consequently features
a great mixture of flora and fauna (which will admittedly be difficult to spot in the dark).
Walk
Options:
Finish
at Highgate w/o going through Queen’s Wood: 3.7 km with about 80m ascent.
Refreshments in
Highgate:
The Boogaloo pub/bar or The Woodman pub.
For
walk directions, photos, map, height profile and gpx/kml
files click here. T=short.49.b
1 comment:
n=6 on this walk in w=dry-and-not-too-cold weather.
We had a quarter-moon, so headtorches were only used for studying info panels along the dismantled railway and on a couple of occasions in Queen's Wood where the 'leader' thought he'd lost the route (but I don't think we ever did, it just looked different due to walking in reverse and w/o leaves on trees, ie with houses visible beyond the wood's boundary etc.). Muddy areas were mostly frozen, so it was quite easy walking.
3 finished at Highgate upon first getting there, and walked to The Woodman, waiting for the other 3 after they had also 'done' Queen's Wood. All had a meal.
Worked well, I thought, as an evening walk in the 'dark'.
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