The index · every route, walked or not
Everything, in the order I trust it.
Walked routes first, then the ones I have put together. The five facts on every line are the same five you get on the route page, in the same order.
Show me routes that are / / , take / , cost / , and work / .
Walked, and I would send you.
Putney for River Air and a Proper Music Pub
A Thames walk, a proper pub pause and an unfussy Italian dinner before a real music room – if the listing earns it.
Walked twice, most recently in March, both times in bad weather. The whole route, hour by hour.
Hampstead When You Want to Pretend You Left London
Start by the Heath, take the ponds seriously, then climb to Kenwood before tiny cafés and a properly useful pub finish.
Walked end to end in August, from the Overground rather than the Tube. The whole route, hour by hour.
Put together from places I know.
Order and timings are my guess. No photographs, because I have not stood there with this route in mind.
Bloomsbury After Rain
Squares, books and somewhere warm: an indoor-outdoor route for days that should not be written off.
Never done in one afternoon. What I think it is.
Rotherhithe for River Air and Old Dock Melancholy
Warehouses, water and an old-room finish for a quieter stretch of the Thames.
Crystal Palace, Slightly Up a Hill and Away
Views, eccentric park details and a pub finish that earns itself.
Stoke Newington for Books, Graves and a Decent Pint
A gentle north London route with quiet pauses and somewhere warm at the end.
Walthamstow, Market First, Village Later
Start with noise and food, then let the afternoon become smaller and more local.
Woolwich for the Barrier, Big Sky and Strange Edges
An industrial river walk for when a proper urban hike sounds restorative.
Clerkenwell for an Old-City Evening Without West End Fuss
Short streets, old rooms and enough food to make the evening feel considered.
King’s Cross for Water, Graves and a Properly Low-Stakes Pint
A canal-side start, a quiet churchyard and an easy pub finish for two people who do not need a big plan.
Harringay Green Lanes for the Grill and the Gin Palace
A Victorian pub, Turkish grills and a long, lively street that still behaves like a neighbourhood.
Brixton, Market First, Windmill Later
A district walk for grazing, local pubs and an unknown band worth taking a chance on.
Kentish Town, Assembled from the Shortlist
Two backstreet pubs and a small music room, wired into one easy north London evening.
Deptford, the Unpolished High Street
A market-day walk for street voltage, an old churchyard and a Caribbean finish under the arches.
Little Venice to Kensal Green, the Home Stretch
Painted boats, a quieter canal towpath and a cemetery finish that is deliberately more local than central.
Kew Without the Gardens, Then Old Chiswick
A village green, Thames pubs, free historic grounds and Thai dinner in a properly old local.
Marlow to Hambleden, Then the Long Way Home
A train-out Thames walk for river meadows, two locks, a proper village pub and the satisfying simplicity of walking back the way you came.
Chesham to Rickmansworth, Following the Chalk Water
A full Met-line day for a rare clear river, valley villages and one proper pub pause before the long ride home.
Box Hill, Three Ridges and the Pub at the Bottom
A direct train from Waterloo for chalk climbs, long views and a route that earns one last drink near the platform.
Shoeburyness to Old Leigh, Following the Tide Line
An end-of-the-railway walk: garrison walls first, then a long flat coast and one old fishing-town finish.
Theydon Bois to Chingford, the Forest Without a Viewpoint
A long Epping Forest crossing for oak, heath, damp ground and a day that has no need to become a pub crawl.
Ruislip to Harefield, the Metropolitan Line Goes Off-Grid
A gentle edge-of-London day for a reservoir, old woods, café coffee and a quiet village finish.
Lea Marshes to Tottenham Hale, Reservoirs and the Quiet Infrastructure
Start at the marshes, not a station: river paths, football fields, reservoirs and one useful café inside the city’s water system.
Harold Wood to Rainham, the Elizabeth Line Finds a River Valley
A direct train from Stratford, then Pages Wood, the Ingrebourne and the outer-London fields that do not feel quite suburban.
Three words for effort, used the same way on every route: flat, gentle, a proper walk. They are defined in Terms used here.