Greenwich to Charlton

A set of parks and green spaces has been provided for Londoners on the slopes that rise to the south of the Thames at Greenwich

Sunday 13th October 2024, 1pm

The trees of Maryon-Wilson Park

There’s a band of chalk starting (or ending) at Camberwell, proceeding east through Greenwich and Charlton, which hemmed in the floodwaters of the ancient Thames leaving deposits of sand and gravel and clay. These pits of sand and gravel were dug out in previous centuries, and are now left to us as parks and wild places.

Greenwich remains an attractive and old-fashioned town, where you gain an impression of how it used to be in London in the olden times. People were smaller then, and younger.

Meeting at the Cutty Sark, we crossed the Old Naval College, climbed up through Greenwich Park, through the flower garden with its forest of cedars, onto Blackheath; from there along the ridge with views north to the high rises of Canary Wharf, to the Jacobean palace at Charlton Park; then down through Maryon-Wilson Park to Gilbert’s Pit.

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£8 ticket

Meeting place: by the Cutty Sark ship
Take the tube: Cutty Sark DLR, or Greenwich station
Date & time: Sunday October 13th 2024, 1 pm
Distance: 4 miles
End point: Charlton station
Map: Komoot click to view
Contact: email tim.ingram-smith@outlook.com mobile: 077932 00932
Cost: £8 per adult walker PAY HERE https://paypal.me/parktopark

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Gallery

Climbers in the rigging of the Cutty Sark

Above is how it looks today (October 2024) …

and here’s how it looked last time I was here, in September 2016 –

Walkers at the Observatory viewpoint

The laund – an avenue of sweet chestnut trees where Charles II hunted deer, cut back each year so the sun could fall on the lawnd

Simon telling us how a storm blew over a cedar which knocked this one sideways pulling roots out of the soil, but it landed on its elbow and survived

The deer park became the flower garden, could be renamed the cedar garden

The residents of Springfield estate have commanding views and their own parkland

Charlton House, a Jacobean mansion built for the Prince of Wales’ tutor when the boy came to London in the 1600s, has a walled garden and is the gateway to Charlton Park.