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,,,, North Circular into Cranbrook,,, made me think of the delightful Kentish weald town of the same name. But no. Then I made the connection with the the new town east of Exeter called Cranbrook.
How many other settlements have this pleasant name, I wonder. |
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Having used the Redbridge interchange, and the south end of the M11, quite a lot, I often wondered what is at ground level under it all. Thank you for exploring it on my behalf. The report doesn't make me anxious to see for myself, though if I was fonder of herons, I may have been tempted.
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You need to do a book on these walks. :-)
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Definitely somewhere I will visit next summer, if only to explore the bottom of the M11...
The Roding definitely drew the very short straw when compared to the Lea. |
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How fantastically depressing. Despite having lived relatively nearby for years, I never went down there. Probably never well...I think it must get much nicer once you get much further out into Essex proper, around the "Roding" villages
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I do like a good river walk.
I did the Brent earlier in the year and got to the know the North Circular much better than I wanted! |
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"Eggs" has been very busy all over town this year. They also like to draw fried eggs with smily faces or relevant symbols (eg Extinction Rebellion) in the yolk.
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Eggs speaks!
https://cenemagazine.co.uk/... |
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The 'thoroughly desolate recreation ground with fenced-off goalposts and a bush growing in the middle of the pitch' is where, nearly 50 years ago, I endured games lessons when a pupil at nearby Wanstead High School. At that time it was Kearley & Tonge's sports ground, but appears to have gone downhill since. The school badge features a heron and the ex-pupils organisation is named Old Heronians.
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Wanstead Park was very nearly a residence for the Monarch. Lost out to Buckingham Palace. We used to picnic at the Ornamental Waters regularly. We kids used to float along the Roding in car innertubes.
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Growing up I knew this area well. My friends and I used to ride our bikes along the footpaths surrounding the City of London Cemetery, as well as cycling around Wanstead Flats. This was in the days before BMX was thought of.
We also used to ride out through Redbridge, Chingford, Chigwell, Loughton and out to Lambourne End and Abridge. All pre-M11 of course. A lovely area in those days. |
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