V1 : Mar 10 V1 : Jubilee Greenway Directions: Section 2 Station link from Warwick Avenue: Walk down Warwick Avenue to join

Little Venice to Camden Blomfield Road. Turn right to get to the very start of this section, at Little Venice, or if already passed, turn left along Blomfield Road with the on the right.

If starting at Little Venice/Westbourne Terrace, walk over the footbridge section of Westbourne Terrace Bridge and back down onto the towpath via the ramp on the far side. Follow the towpath, which bends left between a Start: Little Venice (TQ261818) boat and some shrubs, until a section of private moorings is reached. Here come off the canal via a few shallow steps and a gate, turning right onto Station: Warwick Avenue Blomfield Road. Finish: Camden (TQ286840) Station: Camden Town Cyclists: This is a one-way street and therefore no entry for cyclists. Instead, go onto the carriageway at Westbourne Terrace Bridge, turn left onto Distance: 2.3 miles (3.7 km) Blomfield Road and take the second turning on the right into Clifton Villas. Follow this road down to the mini roundabout, go straight over and then turn immediately right into Warwick Avenue, then turn left onto Blomfield Road to Introduction: This section of the route runs along the Regent’s Canal, past rejoin the route. Regent’s Park and the London Zoo, through a variety of areas – residential, business and recreational, and finally to famous Camden Town. On Blomfield Road to the right moored on the canal there are the Cascade Art Gallery (opposite number 41), Lady Rose and the Puppet Theatre Barge. It is one of the most soothing and attractive routes along the Jubilee Continue along Blomfield Road past the junction with Warwick Avenue. To Greenway, packed with interest, changing tone from one bridge to the next, the immediate right are the Rembrandt Gardens (below Warwick Avenue) and leading the walker, cyclist or traveller by boat from the smart residential and toilets. Carry straight ahead. Remain in Blomfield Road, with the area of Little Venice to the exciting atmosphere of the famed Camden Lock Regent’s Canal on the right, but watch out for the narrow pavements and Market. uneven path from the trees and their roots.

Much of the Jubilee Greenway passes along the towpath of the Regent’s Continue eastwards along Blomfield Road with its handsome cream Canal. This is joined at Little Venice and followed to Victoria Park, where the Victorian villas. From Little Venice all along here, the towpath of the Regent’s Canal joins the Hertford , and spurs into the Mile End Regent’s Canal is inaccessible to pedestrians because it serves as a private section of the canal, continuing down to the and the area for a number of residential barges. Thames.

On the right, on the other side of the canal, observe the Catholic Apostolic The towpath passes through a variety of different areas, Little Venice is built Church A in Maida Avenue. Further along on the far side of the Regent’s up and residential, Regent’s Park has London Zoo, and the rear facades of Canal, at 30 Maida Avenue, is a blue plaque denoting the residence of the fine buildings, with landscaping down to the canal, and many urban poet John Masefield. At 2 Maida Avenue is a blue plaque marking the fact developments (both residential and commercial). that the Dad’s Army actor Arthur Lowe lived in a flat there.

At the end of Blomfield Road, the canal goes into the long Maida Hill Tunnel, Regent’s Park (officially called The Regent’s Park after George IV) is a 487- at the start of which sits the Café Laville. Because there is no pedestrian acre park with a wide range of activities within it. It was landscaped by John route under Maida Hill Tunnel, follow Blomfield Road as it slopes upwards Nash and completed in 1838. towards the Edgware Road. Cross the Edgware Road in front of the Café Laville and continue in the same direction as before on Aberdeen Place, Pass under an aqueduct bridge which used to carry the River Tyburn over slightly uphill. the canal and then under the Macclesfield Bridge. Beyond this bridge, on the left, is the Snowdon Aviary. C Keep going up Aberdeen Place, passing Lyons Place on the right, until there is a right-angled bend to the left (where the road becomes Cunningham London Zoo is on the right hand side and this is a stop on the boat trips. Place). At this point, look for an alleyway with a signpost pointing towards Shortly afterwards is the red Feng Shang Princess Floating Chinese Regent’s Canal, next to the red brick wall of an electricity substation. Rejoin Restaurant, in the Cumberland Basin. Here turn sharply left following the Regent’s Canal here by going down the steps to the towpath. towpath under the Prince Albert Road Bridge.

Cyclists: To avoid the steps here, turn right down Lyons Place off Aberdeen Place before you reach this point. Take the second turning left into Continue under the Regent’s Park Road Bridge, Gloucester Avenue Bridge, Orchardson Street and follow the road to the end, where it bends around to and a rail bridge. In front, on the right, is the Pirate Castle, home of the the right and becomes Capland Street. Turn left into Frampton Street next Pirate Club. to The Gateway Primary School and use the pelican crossing to cross Lisson Grove. On the other side of the road, go through a gateway and Pass under Oval Road Bridge and you reach Camden Lock, where this down a ramp to the canal. Now on the opposite side of the canal to the section ends. This area is adjacent to a canal basin and holds Camden Lock walking route here, but after a short distance (and some metal barriers to be Market, one of the group of markets often called collectively Camden negotiated) pass over a bridge and down a ramp, back onto the left hand Market. side of the canal. Cyclists must dismount through the market area at Camden Lock. Pass under the first bridge, after about 100m, known as Lisson Grove. Lord’s Cricket Ground B is about 150m away to the north of the canal towpath. There was a street market in Inverness Street, Camden Town, for some years but Camden Lock Market began to appear in 1974. There were negotiations to build an urban motorway across the site, and therefore until Lord’s, sometimes referred to as ‘The Home of Cricket’ is named after its 1976 (when the plans were dropped), no building was possible. Market stalls founder, Thomas Lord. It was extensively rebuilt in the late 20th century, and sprang up, creating a temporary market. This specialised in clothes and in 1987 the new Mound Stand, designed by Sir Michael Hopkins, was crafts, and it soon became so popular that the new market absorbed the opened. earlier street market.

Pass under a number of rail and underground line bridges; the rumble of the For section 3, Camden Town to Victoria Park, continue along the towpath trains overhead contrasts with the tranquillity of the water and the cooing of which crosses over a bridge and goes past the lock. the pigeons nesting under the bridge. Jubilee Greenway Emerge into the well-kept area on the north side of Regent’s Park. This is Section 2 (Little Venice to Camden) page 2 considered one of the most beautiful stretches of waterway in England. www.walklondon.org.uk