Length: 8.0 km (5.0 mi)
Ascent: 170m
Net Walking Time: 2 hours
Meet at Nunhead station by the exit down from the
platforms at 18.35.
From Central London, either take the 18.03
Dartford train from Victoria (18.13 Denmark Hill, 18.16 Peckham Rye),
arriving Nunhead at 18.19, or the Thameslink service from
Kentish Town to Orpington (18.07 St. Pancras via all stations to Blackfriars
(18.16) then Elephant & Castle, Denmark Hill and Peckham Rye), arriving
18.33. [The 18.12 from Victoria connects at Denmark Hill to the Thameslink
train.
From Outer London: take either the 18.02 London
Blackfriars train from Orpington (arrives 18.31) or the 18.01 Victoria
train from Dartford (arrives 18.38).
Return trains from Peckham Rye: plenty in every direction
(Victoria, LBG, Thameslink, Clapham J, Overground to Canada Water and all places North…).
This south east London route links up several noteworthy green open
spaces. It starts by meandering through the atmospheric Nunhead Cemetery,
one of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries of Victorian London and now, after
having been resurrected from decades of neglect, a Local Nature Reserve. You
then walk along residential streets to Camberwell New Cemetery and the
Honor Oak Crematorium in Honor Oak, and on up to One Tree Hill, the most
northerly part of what was the Great North Wood and is now a wooded Local
Nature Reserve with a magnificent viewpoint.
Walk through the linear Brenchley Gardens Park and past Camberwell Old Cemetery and on to the large green spaces of Peckham Rye Park and Common. From there it is just a short walk past a cluster of cafés and modish restaurants and then along Rye Lane, one of the most aesthetically varied, culturally mixed and unique streets in London, to Peckham Rye station, with a plethora of food and drink options nearby, some of them on roof tops of high buildings...
Tea Options: Plenty en route and near Peckham Rye station, see the webpage or the pdf walk directions for details.
For walk directions, map, height profile, photos and gpx/kml files click here .
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1 comment:
n=11 walkers today, one of which arrived late but caught up quickly, on a w=dry-but-cool-evening.
Not the quickest of groups today, as a result at some point dispersing into three subgroups, not aided by many folk not following text or gpx but each other.
The front 2 descended towards Peckham Rye Park with some blood red sky visible to the half left, and with a thick band of cloud separating still blue sky higher up from already darker layers nearer ground.
The 3 backmarkers added the optional loop through Camberwell Old Cemetery and one of them then hopped onto the 63 to Kings X. All but 2 of the rest re-grouped at Frank's Cafe for a drink and a chat, where the early arrivals could enjoy the rest of the cloud/sun/colour spectacle.
We had two ultra-local walkers amongst us and 1 other, semi-knowledgable Southwarkonian, who between them decided on Ganapati for dinner, where 8 of us had a very enjoyable (South Indian) meal and time.
Group Cohesion: rubbish (for an evening walk)
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