HATCH END TO ELSTREE WALK

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Time: May 29, 2016 from 10am to 7pm
Location: Meet At Bounds Green Station
Phone: Robert Young. Mobile 07906025934
Event Type: walk, and, social
Event Added By: EyeInTheSky
Latest Activity: May 22, 2016

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HATCH END TO ELSTREE. Length 7.5 miles. Can be shortened after 4 miles. Countryside walk. Please wear suitable footwear.

MUST BRING PICNIC LUNCH. There is a Pret a Manger and an M.&.S.at Euston Station, on the journey out.

The walk follows an interesting part of the London Loop along north London's highest ridge. Features along the route include architect Norman Shaw's Grimsdyke House (home of W.S. Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan fame, now a hotel) and a stunning picnic viewpoint - Harrow Weald Common - Bentley Priory nature reserve - Stanmore Common and village - Brockley Hill obelisk - Aldenham Reservoir.

Walk leader: Robert Young. Mobile 07906025934

Meeting point and time: Bounds Green Station, 10.00 a.m.

Journey out: Underground to Euston, then Overground to Hatch End . 70 to 90 minutes. Toilet at Hatch End Wetherspoons pub.

Journey back: Elstree and Borehamwood Station to St. Pancras. 25 minutes

Travel: all outer stations are Zone 6

Lunch: we will picnic after Grimsdyke at view point or in the garden of 'The Case Is Altered' pub. Sadly the pub kitchen is CLOSED, drinks only.

Afternoon refreshment stop: Fishery pub opposite Aldenham Reservoir.

End of walk pub: Elstree Wetherspoons pub.

Shortening walk after 4 miles: from Stanmore Village catch 142 bus to Stanmore Station (4 buses an hour),or walk through Stanmore Country Park to station.

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HATCH END TO ELSTREE WALK

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