Length:
6.0 km (3.7 mi)
Net
Walking Time: 1 ½ hrs
Meet:
Wanstead Station,
at 18.45 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.
For walk directions,
map, photos, and gpx/kml files click here.
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1 comment:
9 at the start, plus 1 met at the entrance to the park (having cycled there from work) plus 2 with a later start, whom we saw (across the water) but never met during the walk, just afterwards, when we were debating where to go for post-prandials. Uneventful(unless you count the couple of swans with 6 cygnets, all in a row) outing through the beautiful park, and at good pace. 8 went on to a pub way down Wanstead's High Street for a meal, way beyond the walk's text, based on a local couple's recommendation. As it turned out, The Cuckfield is where they had their first rendezvous many years ago! Bless...
The tube gremlins were in operation on the way back to town, delaying us for about 20 minutes at Leytonstone (an earlier broken down train, apparently). n=12 w=very-pleasant
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