Length: 6.6 km (4.1 mi)
Ascent: 80m
Net Walking Time: 1 ½ hrs
Meet: Sydenham Hill Station/College Road exit (Zone 3) at 18.45 (i.e.: take the 18.27 Orpington train
from Victoria (Brixton 18.34, Herne Hill 18.37), arrives Sydenham
Hill at 18.42).
Return: from West Dulwich (one stop closer to London), every 15
minutes on xx.05
This walk takes you through Dulwich Wood & Sydenham Hill Wood (together the largest extant part of the ancient Great North Wood in the Borough of Southwark), the splendid Horniman Gardens (with fine views of the City of London) and Dulwich Park, finishing in Dulwich Village for refreshments. If you get disorientated in Dulwich Wood or Sydenham Hill Wood, do not worry too much, as wandering around, you will in time come across the car wide metal bridge, from which you may resume the directions.
Tea: Crown & Greyhound pub, Rocca Italian restaurant and various other bars and restaurants in Dulwich Village, and Belair House Bar & Restaurant on the way to the station.
For walk directions , map, photos, and gpx/kml files click here. T=short.9
1 comment:
13 walkers assembled for this one, one though immediately staying behind to wait for walker n=14 who was still more than a few minutes away. Those two were met again only at the end of the walk in the pub. The paths through the woods were still dry and easy to walk despite some rain during the day and the replacement Cox's Footpath Bridge was a delight to cross. But at Horniman's we encountered our first problem, namely that garden, park and viewing area were closed off for the evening for an event (800 people were expected apparently).
We therefore ambled back into the wood, avoiding the road walking, and took up Cox's Footpath. Dulwich Park had another surprise insofar as the quietly splendid wooden boardwalk across the lake is closed due to 'rot'. Southwark Council, sort it out!
Most had drinks with or without food at the Crown & Greyhound, while 3 preferred Rocca.
w=dry-and-warm
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