Length: 6.0 km
Net Walking Time: 1 ½ hrs
Meet: Queensway Station (corner of
Queensway and Bayswater Road) at 18.45 hours.
Queensway is on the Central Line in Zone 1, Bayswater
(Circle and District lines) is a 3-minute walk away.
Finish: Whitehall/Trafalgar Square, near Charing
Cross, Embankment, Westminster & Waterloo stations.
All the above stations are in Zone 1.
Drop-Outs: Hyde Park Corner or Green Park tube stations, or
buses.
Map-led, through Central London's extensive ‘Royal’ Parks, past
the 2026 Serpentine Gallery’s Summer Pavilion in
Kensington Gardens (which opened some 7 weeks ago).
Opening Hours: The Gardens are open to 21.30: https://www.royalparks.org.uk/visit/parks/kensington-gardens . Hyde Park, Green Park and St. James’s Park are open to midnight: https://www.royalparks.org.uk/visit/parks
Eat/Drink: Numerous options around Whitehall and Trafalgar Square.
For walk directions, map, photos and gpx/kml files click here.
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1 comment:
Just n=4 turned up for this walk, and none of the other 3 could really be considered evening walk regulars. But while it had been hot and stifling during the day and was still so on the tube trains getting us to the walk's start, in the parks there was a breeze and - certainly when under tree cover - it did not feel uncomfortably hot at any point. In fact, once in Green Park, with its near complete tree canopy, it felt perfect.
The Serpentine Pavilion was interesting: a brick structure with wavey walls and a clever semi-translucent roof that nevertheless provides shade to the internal area (which is roped off out of hours but we could see that - when open (10 to 5, I think) - it must make for a fine cafe area).
We got to Whitehall just after 8 o'clock (I think) and none of us was depending on getting a full dinner, so we just had a leisurely drink or three on one of the benches outside the not-so-busy-today pubs near Westminster station.
w=warm-with-a-breeze
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