Abbey Wood Circular (Lesnes Abbey Woods)
Lesnes Abbey Woods is famous for wild daffodils, wood anenomes and bluebells. The daffs should be out.
Length: 5.2 km/3.2 mi
Ascent/Descent: 127m
Net Walking Time: ca. 1 ½ hours
Toughness: 1 out of 10
Take the 16.35 South Eastern train from Cannon Street (Loop
Line via Slade Green, calling London Bridge 16.39, Deptford 16.45, Greenwich
for DLR 16.47, Woolwich Arsenal for DLR 17.01). Train arrives Abbey Wood
at 17.06. Abbey Wood is in Zone 4.
Return trains: xx.08, xx.18, xx.38, xx.48),
all via above stations to Cannon Street.
This is an undulating route on the boundary of the Boroughs of Bexley
(Lesnes Abbey Woods) and Greenwich (Bostall Woods) in South East London, based
upon the atmospheric ruins of Lesnes
Abbey, surrounded by a beautiful park with some ornamental
gardens and towered over by ancient and secondary woodland, with a high
extent of sessile oaks, some large wildflower meadows with bluebells and
native wild daffodils in spring and several scenic ponds. A heathland
with an Iron Age tumulus and some acid grasslands are passed through as
well.
Refreshments at the end of the walk: Abbey Arms
(right by the station, with a large garden at the back).
For walk directions, maps, height profiles, photos
and gpx/kml files click here. T=short.43
1 comment:
And the daffs were out, as out as they can be really. Some crocusses (crocussi?) and plenty of wood anemones could be spotted as well, the latter a little droopy on account of the grey and wet day. Bluebells aplenty, but still all green growth only w/o any blue-ish bells, of course. And parakeets there were, and quite a few of them at that. 5 walkers only though, 1 of whom was an evening walk-first timer. All 3 evening walk posters were in attendance, which is a first for some years! No rain though, which had stopped the very moment I left my flat (with full waterproofs on) and didn't get going again until we left The Abbey Arms after the walk. I felt a little overdressed, shall we say?
At the pub (4 of us went), we had a pizza and a couple of drinks each, and were also met by one additional walker who came out after work, just for the apres-walk entertainment.
n=5 plus n=1 walker who just came out after work to the after-walk pub, in w=grey-but-dry weather. 20.38 train.
And then there were Crossrail trains. One every 5 minutes. Destination Paddington (via Canary Wharf). Driver training only, for the time being...
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