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Friday, 30 December 2022

Evening Walk - Farewell to 2022 Evening Walks: Deptford to London Bridge or shorter

Length: up to 8.8 km (5.5 mi)
Ascent/Descent: none 
Net Walking Time: up to 2 hrs 
 
Bailouts: frequent bus lines are never more than a few hundred metres away; also nearly passed: Rotherhithe Overground, Bermondsey Underground. 
 
Take the 18.17 Gravesend train from Cannon Street (18.22 London Bridge), arrives Deptford at 18.28.
 
See the year out in style with another glorified pub crawl along the Thames. Immediately out of the station in Deptford, there is the Taproom SE8 in the Market Yard, we then turn left down the High Street past the Job Centre to hit the Thames Path by the legendary Dog & Bell. Then some walking will be necessary to get to Rotherhithe with The Blacksmiths, the Salt Quay, The Mayflower and The Angel 
The Old Justice on Bermondsey Wall East has just been saved from being turned into flats and been brought back to life as a pub after quite a few years but is still awaiting a tenant to take it on, so on to London Bridge for a Farewell to the 2022 evening walks. 
 
This is notionally a shortened-at-both-ends version of SWC 245, but in reverse...

Should you really require walk directions, map, and gpx/kml files, click here. T=swc.245.b

1 comment:

Thomas G said...

3 off the train, met by a local SWCer at the exit, and the 4 were then apprehended by a 5th (also a local) at the Evelyn Street/Deptford High Street junction. Together we moved on to The Dog & Bell for a first stop, then to The Blacksmiths' Arms for a second (Live Music!). There had beeen a short sharp shower while I waited at LBG for the train, but that fizzled out by the time we started to walk, but then - and for the rest of the walk - it was w=dry-and-warm and with very clear air.
On we went to The Mayflower, where we knew two others were waiting, having walked in from Canada Water tube. Another drink then, and more conversation, after which two said goodbye (1 for the bus back to SE8, 1 for the Overground across the river).
In Bermondsey we turned left off the river towards The Gregorian for a last sip, although 1 of the 5 remaining skipped that and went straight for the tube. A very fine conclusion to the 2022 Evening Walk Season. n=7