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
2 comments:
Local boy hopes to join.
n=8 walkers on a w=clear-medium-cold night started 5 mins late due a late train, managed the early parks before they closed and proceeded at good pace through Lee Green and across to Blackheath.
The full moon was spotted first time just before we reached the heath and we then kept walking into the moon. The very genteel streets of the Blackheath Cator Estate followed, where 1 branched off home to Kidbrooke. 1 other didn't quite fancy a group dinner, so only 6 partook in a Nepalese meal, which was very nice indeed.
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