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SUMMARY:London Loop - Hornchurch Country Park to Purfleet\, via Rainham.
DESCRIPTION:Time to pick-up from where we left off back in May! as we continue this 150 mile odyssey around the outskirts of London through parks\, woods\, suburbs and along rivers. It’s never too late to join…but you’d better hurry up (see later!)\n\nWe go from Hornchurch Country Park Discovery Centre/Cafe to Purfleet – about 8 miles or so\, including a Hill with a View. A chance to drop out at Rainham (Essex). Terrain otherwise is reasonably flat.\n\nIncludes an optional visit to Rainham Hall\, £6.50/(children £3.25)  (National Trust members free)\nOR you can\, I believe\, use their cafe without visiting the property.\n\nThen it’s down along the Thames (not the actual Thames Path which is on the south bank) with a little military and heritage museum (free)\, which may be open\, along the way\, and a cafe at the RSPB reserve Visitor Centre outside Purfleet. Pubs in Rainham and\, I believe\, at the end.\n\nOh dear\, this is\, again I believe (but one can never be absolutely sure!) the end of this ‘running’ of the LOOP\, as we have come all the way around from Erith on the south bank of the Thames since early 2023. It’s probably time to give it a rest for the next period of years\, and go and walk the Great Wall of China\, or something…\n\nBUT BUT BUT if anyone has missed a section and wants to walk it privately\, or with COPSE (either on the programme or ad hoc when there is a gap in the programme) then of course they can do so\, either with or without me! (but I can be an advisor). I leave that hanging in the air…\n\n\n\nMeanwhile\, meet at East Croydon Rail Stn at 9.00am BST (a bit of an early start  – particularly by GMT – but probably worth it for a relaxed day in the end).\n\nWe catch a Thameslink to London Bridge (15 or 21 past the hour would be good)\, Jubilee Line to West Ham\, District Line to Hornchurch Metro\,\nthen a 252 bus to Hornchurch CP (every 10-12 mins\, takes a few minutes).\n\nWe travel mostly in zone 6…but for the journey home from Purfleet this station is in a bit of a grey area as regards TFL zones BUT you CAN use Oyster pay-as-you-go from here back into London. So I’ll leave you to inquire about how this affects your ticket. Rainham (Essex) is the next station stop towards London and IS in Zone 6\, but\, of course\, we stay on the train (so this is to bear in mind if you need to touch with an Oyster card…this is far less complicated than it may sound\, it’ll all fall into place on the day!!).\n\nPaul N (no emails on the day please)\nTel. 07968 223589
URL:https://www.copsecroydon.co.uk/event/london-loop-hornchurch-country-park-to-purfleet-via-rainham/
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SUMMARY:West Norwood Cemetery and Crystal Palace Park
DESCRIPTION:For those interested in my “three part” COPSE walk next sunday (27th)\, this\nis the plan =>\n\nWhere to meet\nMeet at the 468 bus stop “KD” from 10.15am  outside the “former” Nestle building => 10.30am bus (approx) to\nWest Norwood high street (takes about 30 minutes) where we’ll then have a coffee/loo stop in West Norwood’s library + “picture house” cinema.\n\nThe walk\nThis leisurely four mike walk will then start outside West Norwood cemetery’s main entrance at 11.30am to find some of it’s many famous graves (including “a sugar magnate + philanthropist”\,\na “domestic goddess” + many more)\, Dulwich village + Crystal Palace park (including the recently refurbished “dinosaurs ”   .)\n\nWe’ll leave by the bottom Penge gate  + then go to either Penge East Station \, Penge West Station or buses to Croydon but there’s an option afterwards to go to “the Bridge House” pub which\nis right next to Penge West Station for drinks + possibly a  meal but being a Sunday afternoon\, it could be busy\, so we’ll just hope there’s some indoor seats left or go into the garden.\n\nIf you have any queries\, please let me know.\n\nKeith S\nmobile/text = 07749 515489\n(which is always switched on !!)\n\n(Alternative travel via train (East Croydon at 14mins  and 44 mins past the hour to West Norwood\, change at Crystal Palace).  Journey takes approx 19 mins.\nYou can also travel from West Croydon train station to West Norwood changing at Balham. Journey takes approx 36 mins.)\nThe official source for trains in Great Britain | National Rail
URL:https://www.copsecroydon.co.uk/event/west-norwood-cemetery-and-crystal-palace-park/
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