Walk to America … Vauxhall to Battersea Park

Walk to America! … Vauxhall via US Embassy to Battersea Park

Sunday 9th June 2024, 1pm

London embassy of the United States of America.

One of the most interesting walks in London… Join us as we explore first of all a neighbourhood park preserved by the actions of residents, then swoop through chinese-built Shanghai-on-Thames by Nine Elms to the prairie grasses and niagara falls of the Embassy of the United States of America, and on past the resurrected Battersea Power Station to the gentle ’50s architecture of Battersea Park.

£8 ticket

This fascinating walk took in

Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens and City Farm
Harleyford Road Community Garden (more) and Bonnington Square (history)
Vauxhall Park and lavender field
the linear Nine Elms Park which includes US Embassy Gardens;
touching on Thames Riverside Walk
the little park by Riverlight Quay featuring Peter Newman’s Skystation
the plantings round Battersea Power Station
and Battersea Park itself including the Buddha Peace Pagoda.
Afterwards those heading for a tube might cross Chelsea Bridge and peer into Ranelagh Gardens, then detour through the modernist garden at Mulberry Square.

Meeting place: Vauxhall Station, by the buses, under the metal roof ramp
Take the tube: Victoria line, or Overground
Date & time: Sunday June 9th 2024, 1 pm
Distance: 4 miles
End point: Pear Tree Cafe, Battersea Park
Map: Komoot – click to view
Contact: email tim.ingram-smith@virgin.net mobile: 077932 00932
Cost: £8 per adult walker PAY HERE https://paypal.me/parktopark