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The walk between Lime house and Island gardens is the worst part of the walk as there are mostly private properties and restricted areas near river which you cant enter. You have to go on a side road and then re-join.

Given the river’s importance, it’s only natural that someone would want to make a walking trail that follows it. That’s the Thames Path National Trail, and it’s a National Trail like no others. By the nature of the fact that it follows a river, the Thames Path is a pretty flat walk with no real hills to speak of. At many points, it is paved, making walking easy, and for most of the trail there are lots of facilities available. Large parts of the ‘path’ from the source to Wallingford or so are no path at all (with sometimes waist high nettles and thistles, even far into June …) and lots of times you also cannot see the river. Not much fun there. We hardly ever met other walkers and wondered if the Thames Path was being maintained at all. The Thames Path is served by a number of hostels, although most are in London. Those near to the trail are: Because there are so many options, we’ve not produced a series of specific itineraries, but instead split the trail up into a number of “sections”. Some of these sections are longer than others, and in most cases you will probably want to combine multiple “sections” into a single days walk.I am sure that with your experience you are not looking for recommendations, but I noticed that some of the trails you are yet to conquer I happen to have been myself. When I lived up in Norfolk I hiked parts of the Peddars Way in sections, the part around Castle Acre in the Fens is nice, as is the coastal stretch of AONB around Well-next-the-sea. I noticed you’ve done some of the Welsh trails but I hiked a bit of Offa’s Dyke too, starting close to Hay-on-Wye. Finally, the Southwest Coast Path is stunning at any section. It would take weeks just to traverse around Cornwall alone, but one section on the southern Roseland peninsula is truly magnificent! Limited accommodation at Newbridge at the Rose Revived pub. Alternative accommodation can be found a few miles off route at Brighthamton, or Northmoor. Alternatively, a bus or taxi ride will take you to the towns of Abindgon or Witney.

I walk about 10-20km a day, and have done a 35km walk — all in London with lots of people “in the way”, so I’m pretty sure I can do 44km in the country side, starting early and relaxed. Kemble is the nearest station, and is about half a mile from the Thames Path. But the start of the Thames Path and the source are not at Kemble. Although the eastern end of the Thames Path National Trail is at the Thames Barrier, you don’t need to end there as the Thames Path Extension carries on another ten miles to Crayford Ness. This is fully waymarked and generally referred to as the Thames Path on signposts, but uses a picture of a Thames Sailing Barge as a logo instead of the National Trail acorn. It is shown on the map above in green. Would you be able to tell me 1) is this part of the path doable by bike 2) can we take bikes on the train from Waterloo to Teddington? Limited accommodation in Kelmscott at the village pub only. Alternative accommodation is at Lechlade. No shop.

I’d say don’t stop at the Barrier. . Thamesmead – the developers built a man made lake that attracts a lot of birds and parts of the path are very pretty (don’t go inland…).It gets bleak and wilder and more industrial nearer Belvedere (after Gallions Park) – sometimes in autumn there are seals. But towns like Ashton Keynes, Clifton Hampden and Wallingford are little gems, even though you sometimes need to leave the path to find them. O2 construction work also caused a bit of inconvenience due to some construction work but apparently they are saying that something exciting is coming. urn:lcp:trailguidetobody0000biel_u1b6:epub:204c446a-5e41-4a9b-bb2d-2b2a63981d50 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier trailguidetobody0000biel_u1b6 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2f3fjdh1nb Invoice 1652 Isbn 9780982978658 Lccn 2014930272 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-rc2-1-gf788 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-0000944 Openlibrary_edition

Hello, I’ve just completed the Source to Oxford “paddle”. The floods had receded sufficiently to let us through, and despite bank holiday sunshine there were very few people. We’d planned relatively easy days, which was fortunate as the going was quite hard. I am completing the whole route this year, a day at a time, using public transport from London, freedom pass London area and busses via links from high Wycombe, (Henley, maidenhead, etc and even a once a day lovely village route into oxford). I also use X90 coach to oxford bus links, (both I actually live in Southwest London, so alongside the Thames Path, also interestingly enough close to where the London Loop dissects the Thames. However, whilst I love hiking my question is deviating off a little bit, as it is about cycling. Tower Bridge Road, London, SE1 3LU [email protected] +44 (0) 20 7357 6655 The GOsC is a charity registered in England and Wales (1172749) Next weekend, along with family and friends, I am going to finish my challenge and would like to know which is the best side of the river to walk and are there any diversions along the routeIs it well signposted ? I am currently doing the London Loop using ‘Go Jaunty’ but one doesn’t really ‘see’ anything as I’m always looking at the screen.