Net
Walking Time: 1 ½ hrs
Meet: Wanstead
Station,
at 19.00 hours.
Wanstead is
a station on the Hainault loop of the Central Line in Zone 4. Travel time from
Oxford Circus is 27 minutes, and from Liverpool Street 17 minutes.
Leafy stroll in the Borough of Redbridge through the Grade
II* listed historic landscaped parkland of Wanstead Park, once home to the
Palladian mansion of Wanstead House, compared at the time to Blenheim Palace.
Today only two smaller structures, The Grotto and The Temple, remain (and the
House itself stood on what is now a golf course), but nevertheless the present smaller
park retains some of the layout of Wanstead House’s grounds, especially its
many ponds, and provides a perfect venue for relaxing and escaping the urban
sprawl, with its plentiful water features and varied woods.
Eat/Drink: Plenty of options near the station, see webpage for details.
1 comment:
n=14 on a w=balmy-summer-evening enjoying this shortish stroll around a pond or two in a rather lovely park. all but 1 went for a drink at The George afterwards, some had a meal.
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