Length: About 11 km (7 miles). Toughness: 1/10
10:44 Windsor & Eton train from Waterloo (Vauxhall 10:48, Clapham Jct 10:54, etc), arriving Barnes (TfL Zone 3) at 11:03. If you just miss this and take the 10:50 Woking train you can either get off at Barnes (11:09) and walk quickly to catch up, or stay on the train to Barnes Bridge (11:11) and wait for the group there.
At Putney you can return from the mainline station to Clapham Jct & Waterloo, or on the District Line from Putney Bridge. Both these stations are in Zone 2.
On this short New Years Eve walk you'll soon reach Chiswick House and after a little circuit of its grounds you could break for refreshments on the picnic lawn by the lake or in the Chiswick House café. If you choose to carry on there are plenty of alternative places on the next stretch, with five riverside pubs before you reach Hammersmith Bridge.
The bridge is open to pedestrians and if you reach it before 1pm I suggest crossing the river to complete the walk on the south bank, since Fulham have a home game against Arsenal and the area around Craven Cottage will be thronged with footie fans. However, if you pass the ground after the 2pm kick-off the north bank route should be fine; you can then explore the grounds of Fulham Palace and Bishop's Park before reaching Putney Bridge. A Wetherspoons on the south bank has become the favoured watering-hole for SWC walks ending at Putney, but bear in mind that the trains and tubes will be pretty crowded after about 4pm.
You'll need to bring the directions from the L=swc.261.r page. If you're printing it, you can click the Riverside Walk option to leave out the directions you won't need.
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n=6 at Barnes Station and n=1 at Barnes Bridge makes n=7 A w=dry day (if you ignore the torrential downpour just after the walk).
We took the detour to Chiswick Park where we saw birds and stuff on the lake, admired the brutalist cafe, then continued along the river, stopping at the Dove, (an age old haunt of Mt Tiger’s) for drinkies. We then proceeded along the north bank to Fulham.
Although we had been specifically promised no football crowds after 2, there were crowds - and stewards - and police. We managed to squeeze through. After a quick look at Fulham Palace (the palace, not the ground) we crossed the river to the Rocket. Here one of our number went for a cherry and tonka bean stout. Another for grapefruit beer. Mr Tiger just had Brains.
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