The latest installment of my walk along the Thames Path takes me from Kew Bridge to Teddington Lock.
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The Thames path, Westminster to Putney
9 March 2008 – 3:31 pm
I talked about the juxtaposition of the C19th Gothic of Tower Bridge and the genuine medievalness of the Tower of London: not, in my opinion, one of the great planning decisions in the history of London. Well, at Westminster, you meet with a similar case. The Palace of Westminster (i.e. the Houses of Parliament), started [...]
The Thames path, London Bridge to Westminster
26 February 2008 – 4:25 pm
A fairly short chunk of the path; I was intending to go a bit further, but the sun went in and I wasn’t really enjoying it much so I hopped on the tube at Westminster. Still, if you use one of the traditional definitions of a city—a town with a cathedral—this section includes the three [...]
The Thames path, Isle of Dogs to London Bridge
12 February 2008 – 2:54 pm
I picked up the Thames path where I left off, in Greenwich, and crossed straight under the river to the Isle of Dogs. The Greenwich foot tunnel itself is kind of freaky; I’m not normally susceptible to claustrophobia, but I got a definite twinge here. I took the stairs down, which made me conscious of [...]
The Thames path, Charlton to Greenwich
5 February 2008 – 2:54 pm
The Thames Path is what it sounds like: a walking route that follows the Thames. It runs 184 miles from the source in the Cotswolds to the Thames flood barrier. I walked from the Thames barrier to Greenwich. My plan is to do the London part of the route in occasional sections; I’m not planning [...]