Evening Walk - Hither Green to Blackheath: well-kept parks, heathland, grand houses, genteel streets (map-led or by reverse reading the text)

Length: 6.5 km (or as short as 3.6 km with shortcuts)

Ascent/Descent: 56/49m

Net Walking Time: 1 ½ hours

 

Take the 18.04 Orpington train from Cannon Street (London Bridge 18.09, then New Cross and St John’s), arrives Hither Green at 18.21. 

Return trains from Blackheath are 7 per hour to either Victoria, Cannon Street or Charing Cross.

The start of SWC 421 Blackheath to Deptford but in reverse, as the two public parks en route (Manor Park and Manor House Gardens in Lee Green) close at 19.00 hours: 

“The River Quaggy, well-kept parks, a large church (with Gothic Revivalist interior), a large heathland with views, genteel streets, grand houses (Victorian, Georgian, Modernist)” 

Shortcuts: Straight to Blackheath Station after crossing the railway line (as per SWC 421), or improvised from the two pubs en route.

 

Eat/Drink: Two pubs en route (or just off it), Hare and Billet and The Princess of Wales. Plus plenty of options in Blackheath village.  

 

For walk directions, map and gpx/kml files click here. T=swc.421.a