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As they don't say down the Solent, it's all in the hover.

Happy Easter, dg.

HoosierSands | Homepage | 17.04.22 - 7:20 a.m. | #

Sometimes I wonder why I live in South London with its paucity of tube lines and slightly meandering train services but your post today has revitalised me.

Both Kingston and Croydon are less than half an hour away by X26 and I can now see that the world is my oyster, especially Chartwell where I have yet to visit.

Thanks for this and a Happy Easter to you and all.

Ken | 17.04.22 - 7:24 a.m. | #

Brilliant first sentence. Half way through it I was irritated. At the end of it I was chuckling.

MO | 17.04.22 - 7:33 a.m. | #

Needs more pop ups, adverts, cookie preferences and other things generally obscuring the content of the page.

Geofftech | 17.04.22 - 7:40 a.m. | #

Every walk you ever take can be the best one of your life so far. All you need to do to get this result is to take them in the correct order.

Malcolm of Kent | 17.04.22 - 7:51 a.m. | #

I like the idea of Actual Deer in Richmond Park. I wouldn't think of going for a walk with artificial deer !

Petras409 | 17.04.22 - 8:00 a.m. | #

Best article I’ve ever read. Happy Easter!

Toni | 17.04.22 - 8:06 a.m. | #

This article must be worth a crème egg, perhaps even two.

Jimmy | 17.04.22 - 8:36 a.m. | #

Bushy Park, 111 bus, has Actual Deer. Richmond Park has Actual Red Deer (371 out, 85 back).

Mike D | 17.04.22 - 8:41 a.m. | #

On Wednesdays until the end of October there is a bus that runs in Richmond Park, and it is free.

John | 17.04.22 - 8:47 a.m. | #

Don’t forget to enjoy the links in the post.

David | 17.04.22 - 10:27 a.m. | #

It doesn’t compare for countryside, but a possible north London option for anyone with limited time is the Parkland Walk from Ally Pally to Finsbury Park. Vaguely rail-related interest (it’s repurposed from a long-defunct branch line), takes you past the original BBC TV studios, rambles across several bridges and through the remains of a station, has a scenic panorama across swaths of London from the slopes of Muswell Hill, offers arboreal bliss in Highgate Woods with birdsong most of the way, and on weekdays is often not that busy. Accessible at both ends by buses plus tube at Finsbury Park. No rolling downs, but a change from urban sprawl if you’re not in reach of these 400+ bus routes.

Labourer | 17.04.22 - 10:37 a.m. | #

Another north London option is the 210 bus from Finsbury Park station, Wells Terrace exit, and alight at the Kenwood House stop, then admire the house (and cafe) and walk over Hampstead Heath and climb Parliament Hill fields and take in the view of London. Happy Easter.

Sara | 17.04.22 - 10:58 a.m. | #

Well the one that people might actually not have heard about is the very-lightly-used 434. This terminates practically at the edge of the countryside in Coulsdon only a short distance from Rickman Hill Recreation Ground. Sadly, the cafe there is now permanently closed.

A short walk south brings multiple possibilities including multiple pleasant ways of getting to Reigate Hill (but a shame one has to cross over the M25 and cross the slip roads at road level), another to Tadworth (nice cafe by the duck pond at Walton on the Hill) and various options to end up at Farthing Down.

And this really is a sort of secret because the really good walks rely on multiple permissive paths in Chipstead Village that are not marked on any map. Also knowing that Starrock Lane might technically be a road but you rarely encounter any traffic on it and, if you do, it will be going slowly.

Pedantic of Purley | 17.04.22 - 2:54 p.m. | #

331 from Uxbridge to Harefield. Walks in all directions. Happy Easter!

Johnny C | 17.04.22 - 6:27 p.m. | #

Ha ha, great stuff (and I genuinely have noted some of those bus routes for future days out)

The 142 (Edgware to Watford) and the 107 (Edgware to New Barnet via Elstree) are useful north London routes that leave the Greater London area and connect with walks on the edge of London like the LOOP and other local walks.

Mikey C | 17.04.22 - 11:36 p.m. | #

After reading all the URLs I'm totally superlativuated and outexaggerated.

commonliner | 18.04.22 - 8:35 a.m. | #

You can get to Richmond Park from Tooting on the 57 bus. Get off at Coombe Lane, walk down (private) Warren Road past the golf course and very nice houses, over Kingston Hill, down to the ladderstile pedestrian gate and into Richmond Park. Uncle Robert is indeed your uncle!

south london lad | 18.04.22 - 1:10 p.m. | #

Fun fact: the 465 bus stops outside Denbies Vineyard (referenced in the article) are Transport for London's southernmost bus stops, as beyond there into Dorking the stops are managed by Surrey County Council.

I would probably assert that the stops at Denbies are closer to the South Coast than they are to Piccadilly Circus. But I would probably be wrong.

dg writes: definitely.

Julian | 21.04.22 - 1:33 p.m. | #











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