Evening Walk - Morden Park (St. Helier to Morden) - Undulating park in outer South London, with some fine vistas, scattered wooded areas and large meadows [New Walk]

Length : 5.0 km Height Gain: 35m

Take the 18.03 Guildford stopping service from Waterloo to Wimbledon (calls Vauxhall, Clapham J, Earlsfield) and change (18.19/18.25) onto the Sutton service, arrives St. Helier at 18.35.  

This connecting train is the Thameslink service from St. Albans to Sutton, calling all Central London Thameslink Stations to Blackfriars (17.51), then Elephant, Loughborough Junction, Herne Hill etc. 

You can also get to St. Helier by Bus 154 from Morden tube station, which may be faster from some parts of Central and South London.

 

This is an easy all-year walk in outer South London exploring Morden Park, which is situated on the watershed between the Wandle River and Beverley Brook catchments, therefore providing for fine far views for a walk with very little effort.

 

You start along quiet residential roads, descending into the shallow valley of the East Pyl Brook, a tributary of the Beverley Brook, and enter Morden Park at its easterly corner. Follow a gravel path past Morden Park House and a bandstand, then a mixture of grass and tarmac paths up and down through the various meadows and lightly wooded areas, intersected by a wooded stretch along the East Pyl Brook, and a crossing of a (small) Burial Mound.

 

You leave the park in its northerly corner near the Baitul Futuh Mosque (Western Europe’s largest) to either of the two Morden stations.

Note: despite being officially open to dusk only, many entrances into the park are not gated and in other places the gates are not locked

Walk Options: 

An Alternative Ending at Morden South Railway Station cuts 600m, but there is only a half-hourly service and no facilities whatsoever.

This walk can be combined with Short.13 Morden Hall Park (NT) and Abbey Mills.

 

Refreshments:

The Morden Brook (https://www.greeneking.co.uk/pubs/surrey/morden-brook) can be found 410m off route, about halfway through the walk.  

Several options near Morden Station, none at Morden South.

 

For a detailed route map, gpx/kml file, photos and walk directions click here.t=short.38