Length: 5.0 km (3.1 mi)
Ascent: 160m
Net Walking Time: 1 ½ hour
Meet at Northwick Park (Metropolitan Line, Zone 4)
at 18.40. (18.17 or 18.22 Metropolitan Line trains
from Baker Street).
Alternatively, start from South Kenton station (Zone 4) at the same time, the routes converge after a few
minutes. For that, either take the 18.14 Watford Junction train
from Euston (calling, amongst others, at South Hampstead, Queens Park,
Kensal Green, Willesden Junction, Wembley Central), arriving South Kenton at
18.40, or the Bakerloo Line (takes 35 minutes from Oxford
Circus, for example).
Return trains from Harrow (Zone 5): frequent and fast trains and tubes (Chiltern Trains services to
Marylebone in about 15 minutes; Met Line to Baker Street in about 17 minutes,
then on to Aldgate).
This is a short excursion in Northwest London
through a park and then the playing fields of Harrow School, one of the
country's leading ‘public’ (i.e.: fee-paying independent) schools, up onto
the hill that is dominated by the school buildings, its chapel and Harrow’s
church. You walk down from the hill through the hanging cemetery and
skirt around the hill to re-ascend through residential streets to the High
Street, lined by historic school buildings and tea options. The walk
finishes with a descent along a wood and across a grassy open space down to
‘modern’ Harrow and its busy station.
Tea: plenty of
options en-route in Harrow, plus some good ones on the High Street just past
the station.
For walk directions, map, height
profile, and gpx/kml files click here.
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1 comment:
After some minor transport gremlins (after earlier delays [I have to presume], all the tubes were 'semi-fast' or 'fast', ie non stopping at Northwick Park, so we had to go out to Harrow, and back from there for one stop), the 8 of us started about 10 minutes late.
There was some refracted light around and a smidgen of moon and star light was breaking through the very thin to non existent layer of clouds, so head torches were not really needed (not that that stopped all of us from using them). The paths were good and mud-free, the couple of meadows we had to walk through were not too soggy, and Harrow was remarkably quiet.
We took a break at The Castle pub and therefore arrived a little bit late for our pre-booked table at The Indian Gastro Kitchen, where a (crocked and unable to walk) 9th walker was waiting. About 2 hours later we left, all quite satisfied with the fare and the service. Tube back to town at about 23.00 hours...
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