The far-sighted campaigns of local people in the 1970s to create the Brent River Park out of parcels of riverside land, has brought a revitalising place for plants, animals and people.

Sunday 12th October 2025, 1pm

Beneath the Wharncliffe viaduct, Brent Lodge Park

We walked through Brent River Park and Elthorne Park, then crossed to Warren Farm nature reserve, along to Brent Meadow, and into Brent Lodge Park taking in Hanwell Zoo.

Points of interest included Brunel’s great western line viaduct, the place where Jim Marshall invented his amplifier, the Grand Union Canal and river Brent, and the animals in Hanwell Zoo. More about the area …

Artist Susie Heyes has painted many impressions of the parks in west London; she invited us to see some of her paintings at her studio …

Meeting place: Boston Manor station
Arrive by train: Piccadilly line
Date & time: Sunday Oct 12th 2025, 1 pm
Distance: 4.2 miles
End point: Susie Heyes Studio, West Ealing
Map: Komoot map click to view, Google map
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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This walk starting at Boston Manor is a continuation of our Ealing walk to Boston Manor Park.

Gallery

Boston Manor railway siding

Deer sculpture Brent River Park, Elthorne Park Extension

Stone row, one of a number of stone sculptures in Elthorne Park Extension

Raymond’s Ash in autumn flush, by the Brentford Dock Railway track

Warren Farm, outbuildings, now fenced in

Plenty of paintings of Warren Farm by Susie Heyes on her website

Crossing the lock gate over the Grand Union Canal at Hanwell Lock

Brent Lodge Park with Brunel’s viaduct

Viaduct pillars

Brent Lodge Park Gardener’s house 1960s?

Lovebirds in Hanwell Zoo

Alwyne Gardens, maintained by local volunteers

Susie Heyes’ prints showing some of the parks we visited including Warren Farm and the deer sculpture at Elthorne. Susie Heyes’ website

Map

Map: Komoot – click to view, Google map

This Walk

Sunday 12th October 2025 – Grand Union to Hanwell Zoo

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Previous Walks

Sunday 14th September 2025 – Queen’s Park to Westbourne Park

Sunday 13th July 2025 – Wanstead Parks Oases