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  • Refugee Week walks
    Refugee Week walks
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    17-23 June is Refugee Week 2019.  The theme this year is “You, me and those who came before” and is “an invitation to explore the lives of refugees – and those who have welcomed them – throughout the generations.” To mark this, three of our guides will be running tours during June that explore different…

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  • Green Spaces and Ancient Woodlands in Barnet and Haringey
    Green Spaces and Ancient Woodlands in Barnet and Haringey
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    Our journey around the Capital Ring continues in North London with Marilyn leading Section 11 from Hendon Park to Highgate This walk which I shall be leading on 16 June, passes through many green spaces and ancient woodlands. It starts in the borough of Barnet and finishes in Haringey. We start a short distance from…

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  • Getting high (naturally) in north-west London
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    Jen takes up the baton again for the next of Footprints of London’s series of walks around the Capital Ring with Section 9 running from Greenford to South Kenton on Sunday 2nd June. Full details and booking link can be found here. This section is the hilliest part of the Capital Ring but the climbs…

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  • Remembering 2012 in Wimbledon
    Remembering 2012 in Wimbledon
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    Our journey around the Capital Ring reaches Wimbledon on Sunday 12th May. Jack Yeomanson looks at Wimbledon during London 2012 Remember 2012? A year that London might never see the likes of again as long as most of us are around, it was the year when, as Sebastian Coe said so immortally in August that…

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  • Capital Ring Section 7: Richmond to Osterley Lock
    Capital Ring Section 7: Richmond to Osterley Lock
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    Our odyssey of guided walks around the Capital Ring continues on May 19th with Jen Pedler’s walk from Richmond to Osterley Lock.  At the end of this section, we will be approximately half way through our journey around London.  Details and booking information for this section of the walk can be found here, meanwhile Jen…

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  • Who Is Beverley Brook?
    Who Is Beverley Brook?
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    Tina Baxter is walking Section 6 of the Capital Ring on May 12th, here she looks at one of the feature of the walk – the Beverley Brook Long in length and flow, also a character in fantasy fiction, not a person but a river of 14.3km metres rising at the top of a hill…

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  • The Capital Ring – Our Journey So Far
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    We have completed three of the fifteen sections of the Capital Ring Walk -19 miles completed, 57 still to go. Over the summer we will be walking the whole route, one section each week on Sundays at 11am, with a different guide each week. Section Four sees Sean Patterson take the baton, with a walk…

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  • The Benefits of Walking in Nature
    The Benefits of Walking in Nature
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    The second of our guided walks around the Capital Ring route, takes you through mature woodland in Falconwood. Roberta Arden, who leads the walk on Sunday 14th April, looks at the benefits of walking in nature.   The benefits of walking in nature can be many and help with emotional, mental and physical health, to…

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  • Simnel Cake – A Lenten delight!
    Simnel Cake – A Lenten delight!
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    Tina Baxter returns to share the delights of Simnel Cake.  You can join Tina on on her Mother’s Day City Gardens walk at 2.00 pm on 31st March and mothers go free! Booking details here. The British are great ones for traditions, and especially food related ones around Easter time.  We have Pancake Day and…

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  • Are You Ready For The Capital Ring?
    Are You Ready For The Capital Ring?
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    Spring is on its way and the Footprints of London guides have a new challenge for you! Over the spring and early summer we will be walking the Capital Ring path, a 78 mile circular path divided into 15 sections connecting parks and open spaces. However long you have lived in London you will see…

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