This walk has a part urban and suburban, part semi-natural feel to it as it follows one of South West London’s Thames tributaries, the Beverley Brook, from its source at the southern edge of the London Clay basin just within Greater London to the Thames at Barn Elms, west of Putney.
The Brook initially flows through largely built-up suburbia in Worcester Park and Motspur Park, then into the slightly greener New Malden, before following the fringes of Wimbledon Common and Richmond Park and flowing through Barnes Common and Lower Putney Common, i.e. some of South London’s most varied and beautiful countryside.
While large parts of the brook are now culverted or built over, a substantial part of it flows in the open in parks and through commons, often in natural or re-naturalised meanders, providing for more diverse flora and fauna and natural flows.
Train stations and bus stops on or just off route enable many shorter versions. Check the webpage or the pdf for details.
Disclaimer: the route has some overlap with SWC 391 - Wimbledon to Putney.
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Pedants' Corner: In Wimbledon, where we used to paddle in it as kids, just before where the traffic rushes past on the Kingston by-pass, it's called just "Beverley Brook", without the "the".
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