A set of parks and green spaces has been provided for Londoners on the slopes that rise to the south of the Thames at Greenwich.
There’s a band of chalk starting (or ending) at Camberwell, proceeding east through Greenwich and Charlton, which hemmed in the floodwaters of the ancient Thames leaving deposits of sand and gravel and clay. These pits of sand and gravel were dug out in previous centuries, and are now left to us as parks and wild places.
Greenwich remains an attractive and old-fashioned town, where you gain an impression of how it used to be in London in the olden times. People were smaller then, and younger.
Meeting at the Cutty Sark, we climb up through Greenwich Park, through the flower garden with its forest of cedars, onto Blackheath; from there along the ridge with views north to the high rises of Canary Wharf, to the Jacobean palace at Charlton Park; then down through Maryon-Wilson Park to Gilbert’s Pit and on to the Thames Barrier.
It’s a longer walk, so come prepared.
Meeting place: by the Cutty Sark ship
Take the tube: Cutty Sark DLR, or Greenwich station
Date & time: Sunday October 13th 2024, 1 pm
Distance: 5 and a half miles
End point: Thames Barrier (then walk back to Charlton station)
Map: Komoot click to view
Contact: email tim.ingram-smith[at]virgin.net mobile: 077932 00932
Cost: £8 per adult walker PAY HERE https://paypal.me/parktopark