A warm welcome to the following new associate members: Ashlie May, Sonia Peloe, Andy Midwinter, Jimi Hendrick, and Graham Pittaway.
Forthcoming Walks
Wednesday 17th April 2024
Green Link walk
Event Type
Group Walk
Region
Southern England
Distance
16ml.
Start Time
11:00
Route
Meet Snaresbrook Underground Station. The Green Link Walk to Peckham Rye Station
General Notes
The Green Link Walk was launched in March, the eighth trail in the Walk London network. It spans five boroughs and links almost 40 areas of green space including Walthamstow Marshes and Clerkenwell Green. Starting with a brief interlude in Epping Forest, we'll walk through the heart of the City and cross the Thames by the wobbly (Millennium) bridge. There will be a lateish lunch outdoors (weather permitting). Bring your own, or buy from one of the nearby cafés.
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Finish: TQ341763: what three words: planet.vase.radar
Saturday 20th April 2024
Pirbright & Whitmoor Commons
Event Type
Group Walk
Region
Southern England
Distance
21ml.
Start Time
09:00 (or 10:45ish, see below)
Route
Meet at Ash Vale railway station (07:54 from London Waterloo). Ash Vale railway station circular (Waterloo - Brookwood - Alton line), near North Camp railway station (Reading - Guildford line). Drivers can use Ash Vale railway station car park (free at weekends). 1000ft ascent no real hills, moderate pace. There is a 16mile,10:45ish start option: If walk leader told in advance, one can join at Brookwood railway station (09:42 or 09:54 from London Waterloo) - Brookwood Cemetery side exit - & have a linear 16 mile walk to Ash Vale.
General Notes
Please bring picnic lunch (lunch by a pub). Walk uses permissive access: crosses army training area (beware military debris), some canal towpath & Brookwood Cemetery. This is a joint walk with the Surrey group.
Contact
John Goody Tel: 07801 977390 Email: jbg.xxx@btinternet.com
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Finish: SU892533: what three words: arrive.system.tribe
Saturday 20th April 2024
More Moore
Event Type
Group Walk
Region
Southern England
Distance
18ml.
Start Time
09:00 Harlow Town station
Route
By train: 0825 train from Liverpool Street, 0837 from Tottenham Hale, 0847 from Bishop's Stortford. There's also a direct train from Stratford at 0830 to Harlow Town: leader will wait till it arrives.
By car: postcode is CM20 2JD. The station car park costs £6.80 but there are cheaper alternatives nearby such as the Showground car park on Fifth Avenue CM20 1FD which costs £1.25.
We're heading off to Perry Green, home of the Henry Moore studio and gardens, or more correctly to the public rights of way that take us past some of the great sculptor's most monumental works. (It's £18 for an annual pass to go in - well worth it if you're at all local). We'll set off by the River Stort to Roydon before heading north through Hertfordshire and the pretty valley of the River Ash. Perry Green is about half way, but for lunch we'll continue another mile to Green Tye which has a pub (Prince of Wales) and a village green. Returning, we'll pass through unspoilt countryside earmarked as a 'garden town' northern extension of Harlow - catch it before it's unspoilt no longer!
General Notes
Please bring your own food. There is no shop en route and the pub doesn't serve food, but its website states "you are very welcome to bring your own". This is a joint walk with Essex & Herts.
