This walk follows the last 6 km of the River Wandle Trail in south west London to the River Thames, then follows a pretty stretch of the Thames Path through Wandsworth Park to Putney. The walk finishes at a large riverside pub, with options to continue along the Thames Path or explore 2 more riverside parks. The Wandle Trail section is a mix of paths alongside a narrow river, small urban parks and open spaces (some nice, some unkempt) passing back gardens and some industrial areas. The Trail is waymarked, but mainly for cyclists (blue signs with a water wheel for cyclists, green signs with a water wheel for walkers). The route is being improved over time as former industrial areas are gentrified. The river has an interesting industrial heritage, it has a very steep gradient, so it was channelled to drive water wheels, now the route's symbol.
Wednesday, 9 July 2025
Evening Walk - The Wandle Trail and the Thames Path (Colliers Wood to Putney or Hammersmith)
Length: 8.8 km (5.5 mi) [longer to Hammersmith]
Net Walking Time: 2 hrs
Meet: Colliers Wood Station at 18.45 hours. Colliers Wood is on the Northern line in Zone 3, and a 26-minute journey from Bank.
Finish: either at Putney Bridge station (District Line) or at Putney Mainline (trains to Waterloo). You can also walk on to Hammersmith (Piccadilly, District and Hammersmith & City lines).
Drop-Outs: Haydens Road station, Earlsfield station, Wandsworth station.
Eat/Drink
Putney side: The Boathouse (Young’s) or The Rocket
(Wetherspoon’s).
Fulham side: The Eight
Bells.
For walk directions , map, photos, and gpx/kml files click here. T=short.25
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5 set off the customary 5 minutes after the posted meet time and started freewheeling the route broadly along The Wandle. We must have taken one or other wrong turning, because after about 10 minutes we saw a vaguely familiar frame ahead of us, walker n=6 (not a regular evening walker).
Apart from the fast and furious and sometimes outright confrontational cyclists and E-bikers, this is a fine route, still with some annoying stretches though, where ind. estates or resi buildings block access to the river.
The food & drink options between Putney Bridge and Fulham Railway Bridge were reached at 9 o'clock and we settled into the Young's pub (outside table). The food was ok, service a bit churlish, company great.
Upon crossing Putney Bridge, we then had the remnants of the sunset in the far distance on the left and the full moon rising on the right behind.
w=warm-and-dry
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