Length: About 15 km (9.3 miles), with options to shorten or lengthen. Toughness: 1/10
10:33 South Western Railway Windsor And Eton Riverside service from London Waterloo (Vauxhall 10:37 Clapham Jct 10:43) arriving Putney 10:46 (in TFL Zone 4). Meet upstairs in the ticket hall.
You can return on branches of the Overground (calling at South Acton, Acton Central) or the District line as well as South West Trains to Waterloo.
The introduction to this walk describes it as being along “a pretty section of the Thames Path”. If you check the walk notes you'll see the bridges where it's suggested you could switch to the other side of the river bank and some attractions along the way, including: St Mary's Church, Putney, and All Saints Church, Fulham; Fulham Palace, a former residence of the Bishop of London has nice gardens and a cafe. Entry to the palace is free but requires booking; The Emery Walker Trust, a museum in the home of a friend of William Morris and the nearby William Morris Society, a small, free museum in his home; the Water and Steam Museum, a Victorian water and sewage pumping engines, near Kew Bridge; Syon Park, a riverside stately home with gardens
At the end there are plenty of options in Richmond for refreshment and mulling away spare time.
You'll hardly need any directions for this walk, but the L=swc.390 page has some useful information about the features along the way.
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N=5 at the station met a n=6 th on the towpath. A w=sunny day.
It wasn’t long before the front 4 had put some distance between themselves and the 2 leisurely gentlemen at the back.
They gamely plodded on, made a minor diversion to see Leg o Mutton pond (2 egrets), then checked the White Hart in Barnes in case the speedsters were there - they weren’t. On they went, expecting to find a later riverside pub. Readers, past Mortlake there aren’t any..
On and on they went, 2 parched and weary gentlemen, never complaining until Richmond was reached. Here, mercifully, a pub - the White Swan - beckoned. Less crowded than the later White Cross, but still London prices.
It was 3pm.- too early to mesh with the party - so they went home.
The walk? A bit samey with too much river for my liking but I guess the clue’s in the name.
Meanwhile…(as told to your corresponden)…the Fast Four (later 3) had gone inland to dine at Kew Green. They looked in a church where they were waylaid by a vicar who gave them a right earbashing about its history and even dragged them into the crypt. Serves them right, I say. This meant they got to Richmond at 4:30 a time more amenable to partying. How fair is that?
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