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Loop Walk – Barnett to Gordon Hill Rail Station
Sunday 16th November @ 9:30 am to 5:00 pm
oh dear, the anticipation is unbearable! Time for more LOOPing and the last bit this side of the Solstice!
We shall be striking onwards from High Barnet, across Monken Hadley Common towards Cockfosters – we may meet ‘Livingstone, I presume’ along the way!
At Cockfosters there is an opportunity to finish after about 3 miles and go home by tube, and should anyone wish to do this they will be issued with the instructions and map to get there. It’s reasonably straightforward to get to the station.
We’ll then venture into Trent Country Park and across Enfield Chase where we may see through the mist Henry VIII (or should that be Henry Tudor!?) out hunting.
Depending upon weather and light levels we have three different places where we can stop, all north of Enfield. 1. A bus (313) half hourly into Enfield. 2 & 3 are walking links to Gordon Hill rail stn, which is effectively a suburb of Enfield. Home by train changing onto Victoria Line at Finsbury Park. Next time we shall pick-up the route from exactly wherever we finish this time.
Around about 8 miles or so. Bring food and drink, but there is a pub near Cockfosters and a cafe at Trent Park soon after.
More lovely undulating Hertfordshire into Middlesex countryside, with no main roads to follow, and islands at all road crossings – a steady climb to start.
Where to meet
Meet at East Croydon at 9.15am for the first train after 9.30 to Victoria to change onto tube to High Barnet, via Euston (there’s a Victoria train spot on 9.30 and one after at 9.44).
NOTE: I would like to be walking by 11am please, or jolly soon after. I hope to be at East Croydon all being well, but I may have to go straight onto Victoria (if I have problems with my train) and then onwards and meet you along the way or at High Barnet tube ‘booking hall’.
It might be useful to have contact details of someone who knows they are coming, so as to be in contact, if necessary.
Paul 07968 223589.
No Emails on the day of the walk please – voice or text only
*The London Outer Orbital Path (LOOP) is a 150 mile foot trail around the outskirts of London, using rivers, woods and meadowland, parks and even some suburban streets. It is the further out version of the Capital Ring.