Hillingdon Trail walk 3 Yeading Valley: Yeading Lane to A40 (3 miles) The Hillingdon Trail is 20 miles in length and About this section stretches from Cranford Park in the south of the borough to Springwell Lock in the north. Starting point: Yeading Lane, UB4 0ES End point: A40 A The trail is waymarked and split into A 43 43 7 7 six manageable sections, each Things to look out for in this section: between two and five miles in length.
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A Directions 1. From Yeading Lane, walk across the open space to the bridge over Yeading Brook. 2. Cross the open space to the bridge over Yeading Brook opposite Warley Road, keeping the brook on your left. 3. The tarmac path marks the southern edge of the Yeading Brook Meadows Local Nature Reserve, managed by London Wildlife Trust (LWT). A LWT information board is installed here with some information about wildlife. Continue north along the side of the brook to Kingshill Avenue. 4. Walk across the road and Yeading Brook, continue past the football pitch, then turn right. 5. Follow the footpath ahead to Charville Lane, turn right and go to the Golden Bridge. 6. Walk across Charville Lane from the Golden Bridge and continue north along the track. 7. Go over the Yeading Brook. Follow the bank northwards for a short distance before leaving the brook to enter Ten Acre Wood. Ten Acre Wood is a 19th century plantation of oak over hazel coppice and London Wildlife Trust manage this land for the benefit of wildlife. 8. Follow the path, crossing a wooden bridge over a ditch to enter a wet meadow and cross Yeading Brook via a bridge. 9. Cross the stile, pass along the southern edge of a grazed field and cross the canal feeder. 10. Go along the northern edge of a grazed field, then into another field and proceed westwards towards Gutteridge Wood. 11. Enter Gutteridge Wood and follow the trail, over the canal feeder to the bank of Yeading Brook, emerging at Lynhurst Crescent Open Space. 12. Proceed along the path, turning right along the rear access of the houses. 13. Continue behind the houses, then west onto a path across Elephant Park open space, then north to the A40.
Information correct at time of publication.
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