Length: 5.2 km/3.2 mi
Ascent/Descent: 127m
Net Walking Time: ca. 1 ½ hours
Meet upstairs outside Abbey Wood Station (Zone 4) at 18.30
For that, take...
Either Crossrail (Paddington 17.56, (...),
L'pool Street 18.06, (...), Canary Wharf 18.13…
Or the 17.52 train from Cannon Street (London
Bridge 17.57, Deptford 18.03, Greenwich for DLR 18.05,
Woolwich Arsenal for DLR 18.20).
Both trains arrive at 18.26. 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.
For walk directions, maps, height profiles, photos
and gpx/kml files click here. t=short.43
1 comment:
Just n=2 regs on a w=cold-where-windy evening .
Loads of daffodils and plenty of anemones could be admired (the urban glow meant we could always see them, but could certainly see them better with occasional head torch use). The ample ups and downs came in useful to keep warm. In a break of tradition on this walk, we eschewed The Abbey Arms and went to the Taj Mahal instead, possibly still scarred from the previous year's noise levels in there. On the train home now...
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