Length: 6.3 km, Ascent/Descent: 124m
Net Walking Time: ca. 1 ½ hours, Toughness: 1 out
of 10.
Take the 18.42 Dartford via Bexleyheath train from Charing Cross (Waterloo East 18.45, London Bridge 18.51, then via Lewisham and Blackheath), arriving Falconwood 19.15.
Take the 18.42 Dartford via Bexleyheath train from Charing Cross (Waterloo East 18.45, London Bridge 18.51, then via Lewisham and Blackheath), arriving Falconwood 19.15.
From Victoria take the 18.34 Dartford train via Denmark Hill, Peckham Rye and Nunhead, arriving
Falconwood at 19.11.
Return trains: xx.00
and xx.30 to Cannon Street via London Bridge and xx.14 and xx.44 to
Victoria.
Falconwood is in Zone 4.
This is an undulating route in the Royal Borough of
Greenwich through several mostly ancient woodlands with a rich variety of
plants and trees, up the southerly flank of Shooter’s Hill, past a large south
facing meadow with far views across South East London (and a café) and on
through more woods past remnants of a stately home’s gardens to the
architecturally interesting folly of Severndroog Castle, with its tearoom.
The descent back to the station passes another
terraced garden and drops along Oxleas Meadows to cross over into Shepherdleas
Woods for the return to Falconwood station.
Covid-compatibility: not really any fenced paths but lots of semi-wide woodland paths.
Trains should not be too busy with this late start and the high frequency and
long trains on those lines.
Food/Drink: presumably
all shut.
1 comment:
n=10 walkers in w=overcast-and-a-little-muggy weather. We formed two groups (though not before some frequented the off-license by the station for provisions for the coming mid-walk drinks stop) and stayed within eyesight (but at distance) for most of the walk (ie the lazy option for the second group as the walk author was leading the first). Fine, undulating route through interesting woodlands, with some far views from Oxleas Wood Cafe and again from just below Severndroog Castle, out to East Croydon/the North Downs. Nice company, a drinks stop with views, no rain. Result!
21.14 train for group 1, 21.30 for the others.
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