Length: 5.2 km/3.2 mi
Ascent/Descent: 127m
Net Walking Time: ca. 1 ½ hours
Toughness: 1 out of 10
Meet outside Abbey Wood Station at 18.30.
For that, take...
Either Crossrail (Paddington 17.55, (...), L'pool
Street 18.06, (...), Canary Wharf 18.13…
Or the 17.54 train from Cannon Street (London
Bridge 17.58, Deptford 18.04, Greenwich for DLR 18.07, Woolwich
Arsenal for DLR 18.20). Abbey Wood is in Zone 4.
Return trains: frequent (Mainline and Crossrail).
This is an undulating route on the boundary of the Boroughs of Bexley
(Lesnes Abbey Woods) and Greenwich (Bostall Woods) in South East London, based
upon the atmospheric ruins of Lesnes
Abbey, surrounded by a beautiful park with some ornamental
gardens and towered over by ancient and secondary woodland, with a high
extent of sessile oaks, some large wildflower meadows with bluebells, wood
anemones, crocuses and native wild daffodils in spring and several scenic
ponds. A heathland with an Iron Age tumulus and some acid
grasslands are passed through as well.
Refreshments at the end of the walk: Abbey Arms (right by the station, with a large garden at the back).
For walk directions, maps, height profiles, photos
and gpx/kml files click here. T=short.43
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n=3 out tonight for this in w=dry weather with no mud worth mentioning. All had walked the route before, meaning no stopping at info panels and following memory without consulting text or map, ie: being quick.
Plenty of anemones were still very present in the fenced parts of the woods, but they were already closed for the night. What was dominant therefore was the blue of the bells: Bluebells in good shape and large numbers, carpet-like in places despite only about 2/3 of them being out. Plenty of birdsong could be heard as well, plus some of the squadrons of parakeets that are now ubiqitous in SE London.
We got back to the station just before 20.00 and had a meal at The Abbey Arms.
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