A march from London Bridge through the back streets of Borough reveals a surprising density of parks and plantings.

Sunday 9th March 2025, 1pm

Red Cross Garden – one of the first gardens purely for enjoyment

Starting beneath the Shard we head into the back streets of Borough, Leather Market, Guy’s Hospital, and Lambeth Palace.

Along the way we see that in these clean-air times, there are plenty of small spaces that are given over to greenery: parks include Tanner Street Park, Leathermarket Gardens, Guy Street Park, Kings College Memorial Park, Little Dorrit Park, Crossbones Garden of Remembrance, Red Cross Garden, Mint Street Park, Diversity Garden, Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park with the Tibetan Garden of Peace next to the Museum of War, until we reach Archbishop’s Park, and final stop at the Garden Museum cafe at St Mary’s Gardens.

Several are looked after by Bankside Open Spaces Trust bost.org.uk

Meeting place: outside London Bridge station on St Thomas Street, beneath the Shard
Arrive by tube: Jubilee, Northern, main line
Date & time: Sunday March 9th 2025, 1 pm
Distance: 3.6 miles
End point: Garden Museum Lambeth
Map: Komoot map 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

Tanners Field tennis courts

“Cornerstone” Statues by Tanners Square (Bermondsey Street)

These stone carvings were created by local people, led by sculptor Austin Emery.

Leathermarket park

Guy Street park with car park paintings behind

Red Cross garden, pond, hornbeams, reader

Mint street park stage

Entering Geraldine Mary Harmsworth park – just noticed the fruit trees

Tibetan Peace garden, within Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park, contrasts with …

Ships guns, Imperial War Museum, also in the park

Shelter from branches, Archbishop’s Park

View of Parliament Victoria Tower and, closer, to the left, a brick tower above St Thomas’s Hospital

St Mary’s church, now the Garden Museum

St Mary’s Gardens, by Lambeth Palace

Map

Map: Komoot – click to view

This Walk

Sunday 9th March 2025 – Borough to Archbishop Park Lambeth

Kings College urban garden focusing on repurposed items

Vertical planting, Kings College

Himalayan birch grove, Leathermarket gardens

Crossbones entrance

Peace mandala, Tibetan garden at Mary Harmsworth park

Carved seating in Archbishop’s park.

Walks Coming Up

Sunday 13th April 2025 – Hackney Downs to Clapton Common

Sunday 11th May 2025 – Twickenham and River Crane with artist Nicki Rolls

Sunday 8th June 2025 – St James’s Park, Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens & Holland Park

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Sunday 12th January 2025 – Beckton to Thames Barrier Park