Length: 5.0 km Height Gain: negligible
Take the 18.32 Slade Green train
from Cannon Street to Greenwich (calls London Bridge 18.37 and
Deptford 18.43), arrives 18.45.
You can also get to Greenwich by DLR from
Bank via Canary Wharf.
This is the start of SWC
Short Walk 42 Greenwich to Woolwich, passing Cutty Sark DLR Station (which is closed
for refurbishment though), combined with the end of SWC 215 Blackheath –
Canary Wharf.
From the Cutty Sark, we walk through the 370m long Greenwich foot tunnel onto
the Isle of Dogs and turn left along the Thames Path through Millwall
with views of Greenwich, Deptford and Rotherhithe, to finish at Canary Wharf
(Jubilee and Elizabeth Lines, DLR).
Note 1: the start
of the walk is not outside the main station entrance but down some steps
from the rear end of the platform from London, as described in SWC Short Walk 42.
Note 2: both lifts
in the foot tunnel are currently out of service, but the North one (back to
street level) ought to be back in working order by the time of the walk. Else
it will be 87 steps = ca. 20m height gain!
Refreshments:
The Ferry House
in Island Gardens, just after the foot tunnel.
Numerous options in Canary Wharf.
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4 assembled at the posted start point and got going w/o further delay. The south lift in the foot tunnel was indeed still broken but the north tunnel lift was back in action just as the website had suggested it would, so we were spared the approx. 20m ascent out of the tunnel. A fierce wind was blowing, encouraging our antipodean comrade to don all five layers of his clothing plus a wooly hat and some gloves, so we gratefully accepted the inviting lights of The Ferry House for a not-so-swift swifter.
On then into the wind along a very wide riverside path, then a busy road, then through a park.
Upon finally turning right away from the river to the road and then the delights of Canary Wharf, one of us turned right for 150m to worship at the memorial stone in the pavement for the founding of Millwall (Rovers) Football Club in 1885 on that very spot *), later reuniting with the other 3 at 'Brother Marcus', an enlightened East Med cuisine chain restaurant, where 1 other SWCee joined us from work drinks (I presume) for a drink.
n=4 w=cold-and-very-windy
*) Millwall FC was founded in 1885 by workers of an Isle of Dogs branch of a Scottish food canning business (hence their dark blue and white strip), played for 25 years in five different places around the Isle of Dogs and - when the docks were eating up more and more of the ground and it became too expensive - moved the club and its stadium south of the river, where most of their supporters (dockers and industrial workers) were living anyway: to the borderlands between New Cross, Deptford, Rotherhithe and Bermondsey.
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