Length: 5.0 - 6.0 km
Net Walking Time: 1 ½ hrs
Meet: Lancaster Gate Station (at street
level on Bayswater Road) at 18.30 hours.
Lancaster Gate is on the Central Line in Zone 1, Paddington
Station is a 5-minute walk away.
Finish: Whitehall, near Charing Cross/Embankment
& Westminster stations. All are in Zone 1.
Drop-Outs: Hyde Park Corner, Green Park or St James’s Park
tube stations, or buses.
Map-led, through Central London's extensive parks. With
Kensington Gardens closing at dusk and off limits, we will explore Hyde Park in
more detail than usual on this walk, then commence through Green Park and St.
James’s Park.
Eat/Drink: Numerous options around
Westminster/Whitehall/Trafalgar Square.
For walk directions, map, photos and gpx/kml
files click here.
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3 comments:
I'm hoping to go on this. However am at a meeting in central east london til just after 7.
The suggested eating end place is the Lord Mall on the Moon, which is now a different pub.
Does anyone intend to go on this?
Yes, get in touch when close, usual number
The walk poster and 2 rather rare evening walkers met up at the alloted time and went about entering Hyde Park. Upon seeing plenty of people coming up the way from the direction of Kensington Gardens, we decided to check out the "one park is closed and the other open" situation, i.e.: had gates and fences been erected where there normally aren't any? They hadn't.
So we took up the path along the west side of the Italian Lake and enjoyed the marvellous dry evening with barely a few fluffy clouds and plenty of (near full-) moon light. The moon reflected off the lake then off the Serpentine, making for good photo opportunities. Back in Hyde Park (one can slip through a one-way turnstile to get out of Kensington Gardens), the gate to the lido's water access was open, suggesting someone was swimming, but we didn't see anyone. What we saw where the usual swans, geese and ducks, plus several bats. And lots of people milling about on the benches and paths, enjoying the wonderfully quiet (compared to daytime) and scenic environs. On into Green Park (watch the cyclists!), then St. James's Park, and after an hour of (fast) walking we reached Whitehall.
2 of us decamped to The Clarence's top floor, which seemed ot be the only quiet-ish place on Whitehall. 1 walked on to Charing X. Food and drink for 2, then 3 once the delayed-by-work 4th walker had joined. A rather superb outing, and - certainly with clear skies and moonlight about - a first class evening walk.
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