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Sounds good to me. I've just taken up rambling semi-seriously, so I shall be awaiting with great interest.
Sounds a good project but what I'm writing about is that it's good to note the poppy at the corner of the page
Agreed, RogerW.
If you would like a nice awayday, you could climb Norfolk's highest peak to add to your intrepid tally of 'mountains'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beacon_Hill,_Norfolk
It is, actually, quite a nice walk.
I was surprised that the highest point in the City appears to be close to Chancery Lane station, as there is a plaque in St Paul's Churchyard proclaiming 'When ye have sought the City round, yet still this is the highest ground'
Presumably the plaque dates from before the ward of Farringdon Without (i.e ouside the wall) was incorporated into the City.

Where is the lowest point in London accessible to the public on foot? Somewhere in Waterloo tube station?
Wanstead Flats ---"Flats" are in the listing. Why? Surely the 104m 'peak' at Cabin Hill Hainault Forest (LB Redbridge) should be on the list?
Not sure which listing you're looking at, but all three linked by DG give Wanstead Flats as the highest point in Newham, at a dizzy 15m above sea level, and Cabin Hill (90m) as the highest point in Redbridge.

I doubt that altitude sickness will be a problem on this expedition.
Do the Beckton Alps (LB Newham) not qualify as hills for the purpose of this expedition? I think they may be higher than 15m but don't appear on OS maps as they are artifical constructs.
I used to go to a school on the top of Harrow Hill. I was told that looking across Europe, the next highest point was in the Urals. Well, that was I was told...
timbo - do either of the foot tunnels under the Thames count? It would be a bit tricky to verify with GPS.

dg - should your fifth paragraph not start with the word "outwith"? :)
I'm pretty sure the deepest publicly accessible place in London is the westbound Jubilee line platform at Westminster station.
Good luck with your quest and thanks for the mention :D
Sounds like another interesting project. You never fail to amaze with the ideas you come up with.
In the 1950's Oakwood Station on the Picadilly Line had a brass plaque with the same message. At a modest 275' asl for Oakwood it does seem unlikely. Depends which part of the Urals you choose but even as close as West Essex there are areas which exceed this height. Harrow Hill at 380' might just squeeze through.
The Urals are quite a long range of hills, so it is quite possible that all of these places are the "highest point before the Urals" if you head in a direction which goes through the gaps between any higher points in between.
Of course, the Urals are several thousand miles away, and even their highest point is less than 2000m above sea level so they cannot be seen from more than about 100 miles away because of the curvature of the earth.
I am looking forward to this series.










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