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Where: Linear walk from Where: Circular walk Tower Hill to Westminster from Wadebridge, aNDrEW WhItE PhotograPhy: in central London. following a section of KEIth FErgUS PhotograPhy: Start: Tower Hill tube the famous . If you’re a keen Doctor Who fan, station (TQ336807). the road, turn R and walk towards Start/end: Wadebridge The rises on 1. START Facing the 19th-century or just a casual viewer of the BBC end: Westminster tube Tower Bridge. Before you reach Town Hall (SW990723). Moor and flows for 30 miles to Wadebridge Town Hall on The series, this walk is a different take station (TQ302796). the bridge, bear L and walk down terrain: Woodland and its outflow at . One of Platt (SW990723), turn L. At the on a ramble through the streets terrain: Level footpaths towards the banks of the Thames. riverbank paths, with a its loveliest portions runs through roundabout, go L again onto of the capital – with the universe’s and city pavements. few minor roads. the attractive town of Wadebridge Jubilee Road and sweep R onto favourite Time Lord as your guide! MapS: OS Explorer 173; 2. Across the river, on the South MapS: OS Explorer 106; on the north Cornwall coast. In Southern Way. Follow this past Starting from Tower Hill tube Landranger 177. Bank, is Butler’s Wharf, where the Landranger 200. 1312, the town of Wade (Old the John Betjeman Centre (sited station, the route criss-crosses the GettinG there: Tower Hill First Doctor and Ian Chesterton GettinG there: The English for ford) was designated in the main building of the old Thames to Westminster, visiting tube station is on the Circle encounter Robomen in ‘The Dalek nearest train station is at a market town, with the suffix of Victorian Wadebridge Railway several places used in the filming and District Lines. If you Invasion of Earth’ (1964). Head Bodmin Parkway, 12 miles bridge being applied when the Station, and now housing a range of the world’s longest-running require a station with step- back up the bank and walk over away. From there, the fine stone bridge that spans the of memorabilia from the life and sci-fi series. The locations come free access, try using the DLR Tower Bridge to the South Bank. hourly Western Greyhound River Camel was built in the 15th work of the late Poet Laureate). from both the classic and more Tower Gateway station and Take the steps to the L underneath bus service 555 connects to century. Its strategic position Walk on to Guineaport Road, recent series of Doctor Who – walk to Tower Hill tube the last blue chain of the bridge, Wadebridge and Padstow played an important role during and continue to reach the start some of which you’ll recognise station (✆ 0343 222 1234, or use the lift in the tower, to go (✆ 0871 200 2233, www. the English Civil War of the 17th of the Camel Trail beside the easily, while others were www.tfl.gov.uk). down to the river bank. With travelinesw.com). century, as well as in the town’s River Camel (SW995718). pretending to be other famous eatinG & drinkinG: The Tower Bridge behind you, walk eatinG & drinkinG: The development. When the railway landmarks. It’s a walk through Hung Drawn And Quartered, down the impressive road of Shad Ship Inn, Wadebridge arrived in 1834, Wadebridge 2. Do not join the trail – instead, time and space... well, almost! Great Tower Street (✆ 020 Thames, with the iron walkways (✆ 01208 813845, www. grew in popularity as a tourist keep straight on and walk onto 7626 6123, www.hung- above you in the sky. This is where shipinnwadebridge.co.uk). destination. The now disused a track signposted for Treraven. Exit Tower Hill tube drawn-and-quartered.co.uk). 1. START a couple of sinister policemen SleepinG: Brookdale House line forms the basis of the superb This climbs steadily through a station (TQ336807) and follow SleepinG: Novotel London dealt with some survivors from Bed & Breakfast (four star), 18-mile Camel Trail. This walk gate onto a field path, which the signs to Tower Bridge. On the Tower Bridge, 10 Pepys the Daleks in the 1984 story Trevanion Road, Wadebridge utilises lovely, peaceful woodland continues through another gate R is the Tower of London, most Street (✆ 020 7265 6000, ‘Resurrection of the Daleks’. (✆ 01208 815425, www. paths and quiet roads, as well as a onto a woodland path. At a recently seen in last year’s 50th

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7 FINISH another gate. In due course, the is where the Fifth Doctor, Tegan track veers R. Continue to climb and Turlough materialise in the gradually and, just before another 3 TARDIS in that same episode. In gate, turn L then R. After a gate, 1984, when the episode was filmed, you reach a minor road beside a Butler’s Wharf was derelict and large stone house. Go straight on abandoned, but it has since been and after 100 metres, turn L at a 4 transformed into luxury flats and crossroads into the quiet village restaurants. Head back along Shad of Burlawn (SW995704). Thames and walk along The Queens Walk, underneath Tower Bridge 5 3. Walk along the narrow road, and past City Hall and HMS To download this route and hundreds of others, Belfast. Turn L along Hays Lane soon bearing L and descending visit www.ramblers.org.uk/routes steeply through lovely peaceful and then R along Tooley Street. countryside (keep an eye out for Cross over Borough High Street, traffic). Eventually the road veers and turn L to walk in front of the 5. At the pelican crossing, look of the Dinosaurs’ in 1974. Turn L past Gamekeepers Cottage and majestic Southwark Cathedral. ahead towards St Paul’s Cathedral L onto Parliament Square. Hustyn Mill, providing a clue to To download this route and hundreds of others, Bear R onto Southwark Street, – the location for the cluster of the industries that used to exploit visit www.ramblers.org.uk/routes then L down Redcross Way and R Cybermen attacking London in the 7. Walk past the Houses of the rivers and streams in this area. onto Union Street. Having crossed 1968 episode ‘The Invasion’. Turn Parliament, whose famous Big Cross the bridge over the stream, Blackfriars Road, the road becomes L and head down Queen Victoria Ben was destroyed by a spaceship – popular with walkers, cyclists ignoring the footpath on the L, Wadebridge now to your R, back The Cut. Take a R onto Greet Street, Street, then turn R up New Bridge in ‘Aliens of London’ (2005). and horse riders. This runs for and take the next L into Bishop’s to Guineaport Road (SW995718). then a L onto Wootton Street. Street. Turn L onto Fleet Street and Across the Thames, the London nearly 18 miles between Padstow Wood (SX003699) – a beautiful After a few metres, bear R and take the long walk past the Royal Eye was home to the Nestene and Wenford Bridge, utilising slice of woodland. follow a parkland path along 4. This is where the two factions Courts of Justice, along Strand Consciousness, which beamed its a stretch of railway that was the banks of the River Camel of the Daleks had a massive scrap and across Lancaster Place. Turn activation signal to the ‘living once part of the Atlantic Coast back into Wadebridge, enjoying 4. A broad track takes you in the 1988 story ‘Remembrance L down Adam Street. plastic’ in ‘Rose’, another episode Express, which ran from Waterloo northeast through the wood and views of what remains of the of the Daleks’. Pass under the from the relaunched series in in London to seaside resorts on before long swings R to continue magnificent 17-arch Wade Bridge. railway arches and turn R onto 6. Turn R onto John Adam Street – 2005, devised and scripted by England’s southwest coast, and southeast alongside the languid Route devised by Keith Fergus impressive Roupell Street, with number 8 stood in for 10 Downing Russell T Davies. Westminster tube was the favourite railway journey flow of the River Camel. At a its cobbled street and unbroken Street in the 2005 episode ‘Aliens station (TQ302796) is beneath of Sir John Betjeman. Follow the junction, turn L and keep on, rows of 19th-century workers’ of London’, starring Christopher Portcullis House behind you. track northwest alongside the eventually passing around a houses. Turn L onto Blackfriars Eccleston as The Doctor. Walk back Route devised by Andrew White river for about a mile – keeping barrier. Walk through the car Road and cross carefully to the onto Strand via Villiers Street at an eye out for kingfishers, herons, park, then turn L to cross other side, then head towards the end of the road, and turn L geese and, if you’re very lucky, IN ASSOCIATION WITH IN ASSOCIATION WITH Bridge over the River Blackfriars Bridge and take the down Whitehall, passing Nelson’s otters – to pass what was once the Camel (SX013694). steps down to the river, turning Column (which appeared in ‘The Shooting Range Platform. Once R to walk towards Tower Bridge, Day of the Doctor’) and the real across a bridge (SX004710), keep 5. Bear L through a gate, drop which you can see in the distance. Downing Street on your R. The 08/05/2014 16:36 along, with the River Camel and down through another gate Cross the Millennium Bridge and Cenotaph on Whitehall was seen good views of Egloshayle and and turn L onto the Camel Trail walk up Peter’s Hill. in the Jon Pertwee story ‘Invasion