Length: 6.7 km (4.2) or 3.8 km (2.4 mi)
Ascent: 70m or 40m
Net Walking Time: 1 ½ hours or 1 hour
Meet at Herne Hill station (Railton Road side) at
18.22.
From Central London , either take the 18.12
Orpington train from Victoria (18.19 Brixton), arriving Herne
Hill at 18.21, or the Thameslink service to Sutton (17.57
St. Pancras via stations to Blackfriars (18.06), then Elephant
18.10 and Loughborough Junction 18.16), arriving 18.19.
From Outer London : either take the 17.50
train from Orpington (arrives 18.22) or the 17.46 from Sutton
(arrives 18.11).
Return trains:
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from Herne Hill: 4 per hour in every direction;
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from Denmark Hill: plenty trains to Victoria or Blackfriars (Thameslink) or Gravesend or Gillingham or Sevenoaks
or Overground to Clapham Jct or Dalston Jct.
Variation of an established short walk, now with Ruskin Park
added on (linked by quiet residential streets), meaning a finish at Denmark
Hill Station in Camberwell, which has a lovely pub within the station. Brockwell
Hall is in the final throws of a £7.7 Million “transformative refurbishment” and may
well have re-opened by the day of the walk and look stunning inside and out.
Here’s the blurb for the Brockwell Park Circuit:
This is a short meandering route through a small but well-kept urban
park in Southeast London on raised ground within the valleys shaped by one
of London’s Hidden Rivers, The Effra, and a couple of its tributaries.
Created from the purchase of the existing private gardens of the Brockwell
Hall estate and some smaller neighbouring properties, it is noted for its
19th century layout as a gracious public park, a clocktower, water
garden, and walled garden, as much as for the Art Deco Brockwell Lido.
Brockwell Hall has served as a café since the opening of the park in 1892 (but
will be shut for the evening).”
Both parks ought to be open to “…15
minutes before sunset.”, according to Lambeth’s website, i.e.: to 19.20
hours at least… but in practice, we found at least Brockwell Park open
longer around the same time of year in 2023. So, hopefully we won’t get locked
into Ruskin Park…
Tea:
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at Herne Hill Station: plenty of options, see
the walk directions for details;
For walk directions, map, height profile, photos
and gpx/kml files click here. T=short.39.b
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n=5 started a few minutes after the posted time on a w=sunny-fine evening.
A great time to walk this park (or many others presumably), as loads of plants and flowers are in flower or showing other signs of life, while the swans were again there in their nest with an unknown number of eggs hidden from sight, the air was clean and fresh and distant skylines were crystal clear.
The refurbishment of the Park Mansion and its cafe (which seems to be in a newly-built extension?) is not quite finished though.
All 5 went on up to Ruskin Park, where the final panoramic views from the top of the park were especially tremendous: from The Shard to Nine Elms, including all of the West End.
A new-ish Wildlife Garden was ventured into as well, spurred on by one of us who had volunteered there last year to set it up!
Off to The Phoenix then, still well before dusk, where a local singer was performing, a touch too noisy maybe for conversation, but she soon finished anyway and we could then enjoy the quite decent food and some good conversation.
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