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Thanks - these are really helpful lists and connections. Strangely enough yesterday we were driving through Clerkenwell en route from south to north London, not a place I really know, and my partner thought it was an interesting area and suggested we explore it sometime. I've just been able to print off Islington Council's walk round Clerkenwell! How helpful is that.

I have also printed off Tower Hamlet's walks in Wapping,Shadwell and Limehouse - so we can do those another time. Good ones for the autumn with plenty of refreshment stops.
What happened in Brent and Havering? Four and three stars to none. They both had content. Why would they throw it away?
I was surprised at Sutton not having any information. There are a lot of places within the borough that are suitable for exploration or for an afternoon out, including Oaks Park, Carshalton, and the Wandle trail, just to name a few. There are also several smaller places. Unless it's hidden away somewhere on the site, I can find no mention of any type of leisure activity or places of interest other than those which Sutton appear to supply as a service in one form or another. Surely it is in a council’s benefit to encourage visitors to the borough?

There are also several places literally just outside the borough boundary (e.g. Nonsuch Park, Banstead Downs and Morden Park which, at the very least, deserve a mention, even if it is just a link to a Wiki entry or something.

One saving grace that the Sutton site has is the FIND IT mapping. One of the things it includes (under Map type) is historical maps of the borough from the 1860s to the present day. The earlier maps are the Ordnance Survey maps, the current one is, I think, based on Open Street Map. The maps are a seamless map of the borough and are scrollable and can be zoomed in and out. They are ideal if researching the past or if you want to walk in an area and compare how it’s changed – just zoom in to the area you want and print off the map to take with you. I don’t know if any other boroughs have a similar thing, but it certainly is useful.
Just as I move to a new borough it drops 2 places *sigh*
Actually it's a shame as I've noticed lots of interesting looking public footpaths already and like you, I wnet to the council website for more information but all I could find was boring stuff about services.

However the school did give all year 7 kids a handy map of the area with them marked on it so not all bad!
Wow. The first post without a mention of the Olympics in ... well, a long time. It's official over. :-( I am sad. It's even raining as I type this as if it knows somehow that summer is over.
Waltham Forest,- so much to offer but it ain't on offer via the council, and so near to the Olympic site,typical !
Thank you for your hard work as they will provide new things to do when visiting London. As an aside the second CurioCity is now available (bought mine at Stanfords).
I remember you complaining about the Havering website downgrade, coming as it did almost right on top of your random borough visit. I take it still no-one can follow the deleted Gidea Park walk, then.
Perhaps some of the boroughs don't include stuff because there's some kind of contract with another agency. Enfield & Waltham Forest would probably point to Lee Valley Regional Park Authority, (or whatever name its going under at the mo). Here you can find 40 walks - not easy to find the page though! Here's the link:
http://www.visitleevalley.org.uk/en/content/cms/outdoors/walks-walking/walking-routes/
TFL used to publish a long list of walks on their own website until around 5 years ago. Sadly they deleted them all preferring to concentrate on the 7 main routes (e.g. Thames Path, Capital Ring etc). It'a a shame that they couldn't have left the information there even if they had to add a disclaimer that it might be out of date.










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