After another marathon, I have now revised and upgraded the route descriptions for my TfL routes —following the DLR, Elizabeth Line, Overground, trams, Underground rail lines, and the Superloop bus routes. All sections now begin on a recto, for ease of printing off a section. Twenty-two documents.
The Three Circuits — further revision
I have been working on some new routes in and around London, which necessitated visiting various points on the three long-distance circuit walks, the Coal Tax Circuit, the London Summits Walk, and the Ring around the Underground, so I buffed the guides up with new-found knowledge. The biggest change has been to simplify the part of the Coal Tax Circuit between Colnbrook and Staines-upon-Thames, ditching the eastern option which had more hard surface and sharp thorns than the western option, but there has been other tinkering on all three routes.
For ease of printing off sections of the routes, I have arranged for each section to start on a recto. The new PDF documents have replaced the old ones
After I clear some other commissions, I should be back on the routes, southbound from Woolwich.
Walk local — Harefield Healthwalks
Over the winter and through the spring, I put together a set of walks in and around Harefield to chime in with the Heart and Lung initiative at the Harefield Practice, in conjunction with the hospital next door. There is now a set of fourteen walks, ranging from 1.2km to 15.3km (don’t worry, the longer ones may be broken up at bus stops along the way), on streets, lanes and towpaths, and over parkland, farmland and woodland.
The webpage has a link to an accompanying document which gives gives full details with photographs.
Completing the TfL set
After a longer pause than I should have liked, the Superloop walking routes have been completed to round out the TfL set.
These routes provide a mix of urban, rural and parkland walking. They cover
- the seven orbital routes, creating a circuit from North Finchley via Walthamstow, Woolwich, Bromley, Croydon, Heathrow and Harrow
- the three radial routes outwards to Bromley, Croydon and Uxbridge
The routes do not follow the buses slavishly from stop to stop, balancing closeness to the buses with places of walking interest.
More revised and updated routes
Former tin tabernacle, Chandlers Cross
between Amersham and Watford on the Ring around the Underground
With more time at home, I have managed to revise and update more routes. These routes include
- the nine cardinal-points routes out of Trafalgar Square, collectively called Get out of London!, to Southend-on-Sea, Epping, Hatfield, Hemel Hempstead, Maidenhead, Guildford, Gatwick Airport, Sevenoaks and Gravesend
- the Coal Tax Circuit
- the London Summits Walk
- the Ring around the Underground
That makes about 2000km of routes worked on in the past few weeks. Most of the revisions have been editing references to closed pubs, new restaurants, reshaped road junctions and the like, but near the end of the final route, I came upon a new housing estate on top of my route through the grassland which is no longer green.
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