Due to predicted storm "Bert" approaching UK this weekend, the walk is cancelled and will be rescheduled for a later date. Apologies to all.
Welcome to Capital Walkers, the friendly London Ramblers group for people aged 40+. We walk every weekend and usually at least once during the week.
Gill C.
The walk incorporates “the Line”, East London’s public art trail, so named because it follows the Greenwich Meridian from the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park to the O2 at Greenwich. We will be passing through sections north of the Thames along good paths.
Starting from the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, we walk along the Greenway section of the Capital Ring and head along the River Lee towards Bow Creek, passing Three Mills Island. We will tarry a while at Cody Dock, a former industrial dock, more recently regenerated, and home to a thriving artistic community busy transforming the space into a centre for arts and ecology. We continue towards City Island, home to the English National Ballet, before we explore Trinity Bouy Wharf with a history dating back to the 1700s. Here you will see London’s only (experimental) lighthouse and learn about Longplayer: a one thousand year long musical composition.
Our final section, in the shadow of the Greenwich Peninsula and Canary Wharf (named after the quay where fruit and veg were unloaded from the Canary Islands) ends on the Isle of Dogs at Millwall Dock, where we will aim to find a watering hole, coffee stop.
Travel
Stratford is in Zone 2/3 and can be reached by: DLR, Elizabeth Line, London Overground & Jubilee and Central Lines on the London Underground. Follow signs for the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Allow 16-20 mins to get from Stratford Station to the meeting point, RiverSide East next to the Slide.
No official lunch break but bring snacks. There will be 2 short breaks at Cody Dock and Trinity Bouy Wharf depending on size of group and interest.
Drop out points: several along the route including DLR : Star Lane, Canning Town, East India.
No booking required.
No dogs.
Toilets: There are public toilets at the start of the walk next to the RiverSide East cafe, Cody Dock and Trinity Bouy Wharf.
End of walk: Nearest tubes, Crossharbour and South key on the DLR. Canary Wharf is a 15 minute walk away with access to the DLR, Jubilee and Elizabeth Lines.
The expected finishing time is an estimate only and will be dependent on a number of factors, such as weather, size of group, the speed at which the group walks and the number of breaks taken.
Meet at 9.30 outside the cafe, RiverSide East, next to the iconic Anish Kapoor sculpture, The slide, at the Arcelormittal Orbit, 5 Thornton Rd, E20 2AD in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. (The slide is the red-twisted, looping, tower like sculpture - see photo). Allow 16-20 mins to get from Stratford Station to the meeting point. Follow signs for the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
End of walk: Millwall Dock. Nearest tubes, Crossharbour and South key on the DLR. Canary Wharf is a 15 minute walk away with access to the DLR, Jubilee and Elizabeth Lines.
