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June 15, 2003
walking north greenwich
As it's so sunny, I've decided to get out and about and go walking. I've done pretty much everywhere possible by foot from London Bridge (and the West End), so I bought a few books to give me ideas - I've got the Jarrold Short Walks book for North and South London. These seem pretty good, as the walks normally start and finish at public transport, and have a good range of subject matter, from central London to Zone 6(ish). I thought I'd publish addendums and errata as I go...
So yesterday I covered The Dome, Walk 10 in Jarrold Short Walks South London. I was expecting North Greenwich to be desolate these days, and whilst it was empty, there were enough people and places to make it really nice. It's good being so close to the river. The Millennium Village is springing up, but I don't think they have the views they hoped for. There's now a nice ecology park by the Village (C on the map). Certainly the only place I've seen bluebottles in London.
Being more used to psychogeographic walks*, rather than a strict map, it's hard not to wander off. An interesting addition to the walk would be from the ecology park to the Thames barrier - it's only a mile (so 2 miles extra for a round trip). I find most of the walks in these books a bit short (this was 3.5 miles), especially compared to crisps walks, so it's nice to investigate ways to extend. In the end, rather than veering back to North Greenwich tube, I continued along the Thames Path to Greenwich proper - about an extra one and a half miles. I did consider the 6 miles to Tower Bridge...
A nice suprise was how industrial the walk was. The Thames Path round here is not the countryside that the name conjures. The smells are amazing, chemical sweet wine, bread, nearly rotten eggs... I found the good ship GPS (but forgot to take my GPS with me, to create routes from the walks), and a rather doleful Alan Bennett.
All photos here.
* Guy Browning is so wrong. He's talking about strolls, not walks. And walks really really do not have to have an object.
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