Km Route Directions Km Route Directions

km Route Directions 17 12.6 20 Turn left onto cycleway, then right 18 12.7 20 Cross river and turn right on cycleway 19 12.8 20 Turn right on Mill Lane which becomes River Gardens 20 13.6 20 Turn right onto The Causeway 21 13.7 20 Bear left onto cycleway then turn right onto cycleway alongside B277 Nightingale Road 22 13.9 20 Cross bridge then turn left onto cycleway. Keep right alongside river 23 14.3 20 Cross Culvers Avenue and continue on cycleway 24 14.6 20 Bear left on cycleway, then left and right 25 15.1 20 Bear right on cycleway, cross Middleton Road and turn left onto Watermead Lane which becomes Wandle Trail 26 15.8 20 Turn left to stay on cycleway 27 16.3 20 Turn right on cycleway, cross Bishopsford Road, then bear left on cycleway across bridge and turn left 28 16.6 20 Turn left to continue on cycleway 29 17.5 20 Turn right onto minor road, then cross Morden Road and follow cycleway into park 30 18.1 20 Bear left, then bear right over bridge to continue on cycleway 31 18.7 20 Keep left at footpath to wetlands, then bear right and turn right to continue on cycleway 32 19.1 20 Cross tramway and bear left then turn right to continue on cycleway which becomes service road

km Route Directions Start Turn left out of station into Emily Davison Drive, then right onto Royal Drive and right across roundabout on B2221 Great Tattenhams 1 0.3 Turn left into Tattenham Crescent then right into Downland Way 2 0.7 22 At roundabout, turn right onto Shawley Way 3 1.2 22 Turn left onto B2221 Great Tattenhams 4 1.5 22 Cross A240 Reigate Road at pedestrian crossing then turn left then right onto trail Church Lane which merges into The Drive 5 2.7 22 Turn left onto service road then across Brighton Road at crossing into Garratts Lane 6 3.6 22 Straight over roundabout into Court Road 7 3.8 22 Bear left onto Avenue Road then right onto B2217 High Street 8 4.3 22 Turn right onto Park Road then left onto Woodmansterne Lane which becomes Woodmansterne Street 9 6.3 20 Turn left onto B278 Carshalton Road 10 7.4 20 Turn left onto unpaved trail then cross A2022 Croydon Lane at crossing and veer left into Oaks Park 11 7.8 20 Join service road and then fork right 12 8.5 20 Cross Woodmansterne Road then turn left onto Oaks Track 13 9.3 20 Turn left onto Telegraph Track which becomes B271 Boundary Road. Continue across 2 roundabouts and traffic lights into Park Lane 14 12.0 20 Cross A232 High Street at crossing, then bear left onto Westcroft Road 15 12.4 20 Head round edge of leisure centre car park and take cycleway which becomes Parkfield Close 16 12.5 20 Turn left into Devonshire Road, bear left, then right into Arcadia Close

the 17th century, but since extended and restored and now a local history museum. museum. history local a now and restored and extended since but century, 17th the

of Norman and 12th century architecture. To the west side, stands Honeywood, originally built in in built originally Honeywood, stands side, west the To architecture. century 12th and Norman of

north side and the Grade II listed All Saints Church on the south. The tower of the latter is a mix mix a is latter the of tower The south. the on Church Saints All listed II Grade the and side north

short detour to view the two adjoining ponds at its centre, with the Victorian Grove Park on the the on Park Grove Victorian the with centre, its at ponds adjoining two the view to detour short

to its chalky free-draining soil, providing the basis of a prosperous local agriculture. It is worth a a worth is It agriculture. local prosperous a of basis the providing soil, free-draining chalky its to

Continuing on, we come to Carshalton, once famous as the lavender capital of the world owing owing world the of capital lavender the as famous once Carshalton, to come we on, Continuing Surface: Mixture of tarmac and gravel/hard dirt tracks. Suitable for hybrid and mountain bikes. bikes. mountain and hybrid for Suitable tracks. dirt gravel/hard and tarmac of Mixture Surface:

Refreshments and Toilets: Cafes at Oaks Park and Morden Hall Hall Morden and Park Oaks at Cafes Toilets: and Refreshments

Carshalton [14-16] [14-16] Carshalton

Access: Trains from London Bridge to Tattenham Corner. Corner. Tattenham to Bridge London from Trains Access:

which are still in use today. today. use in still are which

Facilities

servicemen with smallholdings on which to grow vegetables or flowers, or rear animals, some of of some animals, rear or flowers, or vegetables grow to which on smallholdings with servicemen

is Wrd a a a iaiaie hms o hre’ rjc, rvdn uepoe ex- unemployed providing project, heroes’ for ‘homes imaginative an as War World First

weatherboarded farmhouse-style houses. These were built by Surrey County Council after the the after Council County Surrey by built were These houses. farmhouse-style weatherboarded

bequeathed to the National Trust in 1941. 1941. in Trust National the to bequeathed

fe laig as ak e rs it Ltl Woct, n sae f eidtce part- semi-detached of estate an Woodcote, Little into cross we Park Oaks leaving After

run by the Salvation Army, with the estate providing jobs for the former mill workers. It was was It workers. mill former the for jobs providing estate the with Army, Salvation the by run

convalescent home in the First World War and now became a hospital for women and children children and women for hospital a became now and War World First the in home convalescent today, it did give its name to the Oaks race for fillies also run at the Derby meeting. meeting. Derby the at run also fillies for race Oaks the to name its give did it today,

become less fashionable and they were closed in 1922. The estate had been used as a military military a as used been had estate The 1922. in closed were they and fashionable less become landscaped in a naturalistic style for the Earl of Derby in the 1770s. Whilst little of the villa remains remains villa the of little Whilst 1770s. the in Derby of Earl the for style naturalistic a in landscaped

family were capable of producing 6,000lbs of snuff each month. However, by the 1900’s snuff had had snuff 1900’s the by However, month. each snuff of 6,000lbs producing of capable were family as Battersea. Descending the dip slope of the North Downs, we soon reach Oaks Park, a large park park large a Park, Oaks reach soon we Downs, North the of slope dip the Descending Battersea. as

produced snuff from the 1750’s and by the time they were purchased in 1867 by the Hatfeild Hatfeild the by 1867 in purchased were they time the by and 1750’s the from snuff produced section of the Avenue Verte, the 250 mile route from London to Paris which we will follow as far far as follow will we which Paris to London from route mile 250 the Verte, Avenue the of section

After 17km, we reach the National Trust owned Morden Hall, with its café. The mills here here mills The café. its with Hall, Morden owned Trust National the reach we 17km, After Reaching Woodmansterne after 6km, we turn north, joining NCN 20. This also forms the local local the forms also This 20. NCN joining north, turn we 6km, after Woodmansterne Reaching

Morden Hall [29-31] [29-31] Hall Morden Oaks Park and Little Woodcote [11-13] [11-13] Woodcote Little and Park Oaks

several main roads are crossed, there are usually crossings to assist. assist. to crossings usually are there crossed, are roads main several seen on the right when leaving. leaving. when right the on seen

frequently. Herons can sometimes be seen on the banks fishing in the now clean water. Although Although water. clean now the in fishing banks the on seen be sometimes can Herons frequently. 19th century the village was dependent on its well for water. This is over 300ft deep and can be be can and deep 300ft over is This water. for well its on dependent was village the century 19th

The early sections stay close to the river as it winds its way through housing estates, crossing it it crossing estates, housing through way its winds it as river the to close stay sections early The south coast towards London warning of the arrival of the Spanish Armada. Until the end of the the of end the Until Armada. Spanish the of arrival the of warning London towards coast south

believed to have been the site of one of a series of beacons/bonfires that stretched from the the from stretched that beacons/bonfires of series a of one of site the been have to believed

now follow. follow. now

Beacon. Originally a Bronze Age bowl barrow, it was enlarged in the sixteenth century, and is is and century, sixteenth the in enlarged was it barrow, bowl Age Bronze a Originally Beacon.

ponds becoming wildlife havens, connected today by the mixed-use Wandle Trail which we can can we which Trail Wandle mixed-use the by today connected havens, wildlife becoming ponds

way into the village, we pass a large mound on the left in a back-garden known as the Tumble Tumble the as known back-garden a in left the on mound large a pass we village, the into way

the lost river, with woodlands and nature reserves reclaiming the banks, and the former mill mill former the and banks, the reclaiming reserves nature and woodlands with river, lost the

17th century as a health resort recommended by London physicians for its wholesome air. On the the On air. wholesome its for physicians London by recommended resort health a as century 17th

a culverted and polluted shadow of its former self. Eventually plans were put in place to restore restore to place in put were plans Eventually self. former its of shadow polluted and culverted a

Heading out from the station we soon pick up NCN 22 and head east to Banstead, famous in the the in famous Banstead, to east head and 22 NCN up pick soon we station the from out Heading

In the 19th century steam power replaced water, and the industries closed down leaving the river river the leaving down closed industries the and water, replaced power steam century 19th the In

Banstead [4-7] [4-7] Banstead

making it the one of the hardest worked rivers for its size in the world. world. the in size its for rivers worked hardest the of one the it making

snuff, leather, herbal oils and silk were being produced, and at its peak there were up to 100 mills mills 100 to up were there peak its at and produced, being were silk and oils herbal leather, snuff,

after the 12th Earl of Derby and was first held on Thursday 4 May 1780. 1780. May 4 Thursday on held first was and Derby of Earl 12th the after

century there were mills producing paper, gunpowder, iron, dyes and copper. In the 18th century, century, 18th the In copper. and dyes iron, gunpowder, paper, producing mills were there century

richest horse race, and the most prestigious of the five Group 1 Classics in the UK. It was named named was It UK. the in Classics 1 Group five the of prestigious most the and race, horse richest

suitable for powering watermills. Initially these were for milling corn, however by the 17th 17th the by however corn, milling for were these Initially watermills. powering for suitable

hill on the Derby course at Epsom Downs racecourse. The Derby, for 3 year-old horses, is Britain's Britain's is horses, year-old 3 for Derby, The racecourse. Downs Epsom at course Derby the on hill

sewer causing outbreaks of cholera. Lower down, its gradient made it fast flowing, and hence hence and flowing, fast it made gradient its down, Lower cholera. of outbreaks causing sewer

The start is at Tattenham Corner, made famous by the sweeping left hand bend at the top of the the of top the at bend hand left sweeping the by famous made Corner, Tattenham at is start The

“The Compleat Angler”, however as the local population grew its upper reaches became an open open an became reaches upper its grew population local the as however Angler”, Compleat “The

Earlsfield. Originally this was a renowned trout stream, mentioned in Izaak Walton’s 1653 book, book, 1653 Walton’s Izaak in mentioned stream, trout renowned a was this Originally Earlsfield. Tattenham Corner [1] Corner Tattenham

Carshalton Ponds are one of the many sources of the River Wandle, which we will now follow to to follow now will we which Wandle, River the of sources many the of one are Ponds Carshalton

River Wandle [22-29] [22-29] Wandle River Guide Route

I have taken all responsible steps to ensure that these routes are safe and achievable by people with a reasonable level of fitness. However, all outdoor activities involve a degree of risk. To the extent permitted by law, I accept no responsibility for any accidents or injury resulting from following these routes. Walking and cycling routes change over time. Weather conditions may also affect path surfaces. Please use your own judgement when using the routes based upon the Oyster Wheel weather and the ability, experience and confidence levels of those in your group.

Map Key Route Guide

Spoke 1, Part 1

Tattenham Corner to Tower Bridge

Using NCN 22, 20 and 4

Spoke 1 uses National Cycle Network Routes 22 and 20 to travel from Tattenham Corner to Earlsfield, before taking London Cycle Network routes

through Wandsworth and Clapham Commons to Battersea Park. It then picks up Cycle Superhighway 8 to Lambeth Bridge before finally following National Cycle Network route 4 which takes it to Tower Bridge via the sights of the south bank of the Thames. It is 41km long and has three steady gentle climbs all of which are on tarmac. Under wheel it is largely tarmac except for some of

the section along the River Wandle. There are a number of major roads to be navigated, mostly by crossings, although there is one crossing of Blackfriars Road that needs particular care. There are two sections of more major road – the first from Clapham to Battersea and the second around Lambeth, though neither are narrow. Overall it’s about 3 hours of cycling, plus time for stops.

Distance: 41.0km (Part 1: 19.1km) Total Ascent: 77m (Part 1: 42m) Cycling Time: About 3 hours © Tim Boden, 2020

km Route Directions 60 38.1 4 CAUTION: Turn right onto cycleway alongside Blackfriars Road then cross to turn left onto A3200 Southwark Street 61 38.4 4 Turn left onto Hopton Street 62 38.5 4 Fork right then turn right onto Holland Street 63 38.8 4 Turn left onto cycleway Sumner Street then turn left onto Park Street 64 39.3 4 Turn left then turn right onto cycleway Clink Street 65 39.5 4 Turn right onto Stoney Street then turn left onto Winchester Walk and left onto Montague Close which becomes Tooley Street 66 40.0 4 Turn left onto A200 Tooley Street 67 40.6 4 Turn left onto cycleway A200 Queen Elizabeth Street then turn left onto A100 Tower Bridge Road End 41.0 Reach Tower Bridge

km Route Directions 33 19.4 20 Cross Windsor Avenue and continue on cycleway 34 19.7 20 Cross Merantum Way at crossing, pass through arch and turn right then immediately left 35 20.0 20 Cross A238 Merton High Street, turn left onto Holmes Road, bear right through gate, then turn right onto Laburnum Road which becomes Hanover Road 36 20.5 20 Turn right onto All Saints Road then turn left onto East Road 37 20.8 20 Turn right onto North Road 38 21.1 20 Turn left onto Chaucer Way then continue on cycleway Mead Path under railway bridge 39 22.0 20 Cross Plough Lane, then turn right onto cycleway 40 23.3 20 Turn right onto Trewint Street, then turn left onto Summerley Street 41 23.8 20 Turn left onto A217 Garratt Lane and cross at traffic lights onto Magdalen Road 42 25.0 Q4 Turn left onto Heathfield Road then turn right onto Alma Terrace and cross Trinity Road into Dorlcote Road 43 25.6 Q4 Bear left, then right to continue on cycleway and bear left across railway bridge 44 25.9 3 Turn right onto B229 Bolingbroke Grove, then left onto Blenkarne Road. At end turn left into Thurleigh Road. 45 27.0 3 Turn left onto Clapham Common West Side through gate, then right onto cycleway and cross A205 The Avenue onto Windmill Drive 46 27.5 3 Turn left onto cycleway 47 27.9 5 Bear left and cross A3 Clapham Common North Side into Cedars Road which becomes A3216 Queenstown Road 48 29.2 5 Take cycleway under Queenstown Road railway bridge then rejoin road 49 29.6 5 Cross A3205 Battersea Park Road and continue to Battersea Park roundabout 50 30.0 Take the second exit into Battersea Park and turn left onto Carriage Drive South 51 31.1 Fork right onto Carriage Drive West 52 31.6 Turn right onto Carriage Drive North 53 32.4 At roundabout continue on Carriage Drive North 54 32.8 CS8 Turn left onto A3216 Chelsea Bridge 55 33.1 CS8 CAUTION: Follow CS8 blue lane markings to cross Chelsea Embankment and then turn right onto A3212 Grosvenor Road which becomes Millbank 56 35.5 4 At roundabout use pedestrian crossings to turn right onto A3203 Lambeth Bridge 57 35.8 4 At roundabout turn left onto A3036 Lambeth Palace Road 58 36.5 4 Turn left on cycleway Westminster Bridge Road 59 36.7 4 Turn right to cross Westminster Bridge Road onto Belvedere Road which becomes Upper Ground

visitors in its first year. year. first its in visitors

exhibition space in 2000, and specialises in modern art. Free to enter, it attracted over 5 million million 5 over attracted it enter, to Free art. modern in specialises and 2000, in space exhibition

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reaches the Tate Modern, the former Bankside Power Station which was converted into an an into converted was which Station Power Bankside former the Modern, Tate the reaches

through the tourist attractions of the South Bank along minor roads and pedestrian areas. It soon soon It areas. pedestrian and roads minor along Bank South the of attractions tourist the through

or at at or structure is 135 metres tall and the wheel has a diameter of 120 metres. NCN4 now winds its way way its winds now NCN4 metres. 120 of diameter a has wheel the and tall metres 135 is structure

paid tourist attraction in the United Kingdom with over 3.75 million visitors annually. The The annually. visitors million 3.75 over with Kingdom United the in attraction tourist paid

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After another short section of major road, we reach the London Eye, previously known as the the as known previously Eye, London the reach we road, major of section short another After

route then please consider donating to my JustGiving page. This can be found from my website website my from found be can This page. JustGiving my to donating consider please then route

Tudor period and is Grade I listed. listed. I Grade is and period Tudor

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years and contains the library of church records. The tall crenelated gatehouse dates from the the from dates gatehouse crenelated tall The records. church of library the contains and years

I hope you have enjoyed this descent of the Wandle Valley and then tour of the South Bank. I I Bank. South the of tour then and Valley Wandle the of descent this enjoyed have you hope I

at Lambeth Palace. This has been the London residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury for 800 800 for Canterbury of Archbishop the of residence London the been has This Palace. Lambeth at

view of the Houses of Parliament before picking up NCN 4 to cross back over to the South Bank Bank South the to over back cross to 4 NCN up picking before Parliament of Houses the of view Request A

concentrating on the works of Victorian-era painters. Next at Lambeth Bridge, we can admire the the admire can we Bridge, Lambeth at Next painters. Victorian-era of works the on concentrating

Britain. The building was financed by Sir Henry Tate, the sugar magnate, to house British Art, Art, British house to magnate, sugar the Tate, Henry Sir by financed was building The Britain. of Tower Bridge. Bridge. Tower of

route heads past the recently redeveloped London Bridge station before ending at the south end end south the at ending before station Bridge London redeveloped recently the past heads route Tate the part Thames the of bank north the along head and Bridge Chelsea cross we 32km, After

Augustinian Southwark Priory and only became consecrated as a cathedral in 1905. Finally the the Finally 1905. in cathedral a as consecrated became only and Priory Southwark Augustinian

Tate Museums and Lambeth [55-62] [55-62] Lambeth and Museums Tate

Whilst elements of this date from the 1200’s, the church was originally attached to the the to attached originally was church the 1200’s, the from date this of elements Whilst

After passing the renowned Borough Food Market, the route reaches Southwark Cathedral. Cathedral. Southwark reaches route the Market, Food Borough renowned the passing After

overlooking the River. River. the overlooking

Britain celebrations with ponds and fountains. Next to this is the London Peace Pagoda Pagoda Peace London the is this to Next fountains. and ponds with celebrations Britain Southwark Cathedral [65] [65] Cathedral Southwark

Circling the Park, we come to the Pleasure Gardens, transformed as part of the 1951 Festival of of Festival 1951 the of part as transformed Gardens, Pleasure the to come we Park, the Circling

spot for duelling which consisted of fertile marshes growing carrots, melons and asparagus. asparagus. and melons carrots, growing marshes fertile of consisted which duelling for spot 1973, she too has circumnavigated the world and now is an educational museum. museum. educational an is now and world the circumnavigated has too she 1973,

circumnavigated the world between 1577 and 1580. Built by traditional methods and launched in in launched and methods traditional by Built 1580. and 1577 between world the circumnavigated popular a Fields, Battersea the from enclosed been having 1858 in opened was space green acre

Just further on is the replica of the Golden Hinde, Sir Francis Drake’s ship on which he he which on ship Drake’s Francis Sir Hinde, Golden the of replica the is on further Just 200- This Park. Battersea to road main a on descends Verte Avenue the common, the leaving On

Golden Hinde [64] [64] Hinde Golden [50-53] Park Battersea

window that adorns the west gable. gable. west the adorns that window London. in largest the bandstand, listed II Grade the passes route the common, the of middle

architecture of the remaining walls of the Great Hall can still be seen, including a magnificent rose rose magnificent a including seen, be still can Hall Great the of walls remaining the of architecture the in again north turning After 1880’s. the in parkland to converted was it before time, that at

medieval London, however the palace was mostly destroyed by fire in 1814. Today the impressive impressive the Today 1814. in fire by destroyed mostly was palace the however London, medieval wild relatively still was it that showing 1805, in view the painted Turner houses. their built people

Bishops of Winchester. This was once one of the largest and most important buildings in all of of all in buildings important most and largest the of one once was This Winchester. of Bishops business wealthy where village fashionable a was Clapham 1790’s the From Common. Clapham

Next is the ruins of Winchester Palace, built in the early 13th century as a home for the powerful powerful the for home a as century 13th early the in built Palace, Winchester of ruins the is Next larger the reach to then and Common Wandsworth narrow the cross to graves war 600 its with

Here we leave NCN20, and instead follow the Avenue Verte east alongside Wandsworth Cemetery Cemetery Wandsworth alongside east Verte Avenue the follow instead and NCN20, leave we Here

Winchester Palace [64] [64] Palace Winchester

Wandsworth and Clapham [42-46] [42-46] Clapham and Wandsworth

continued to stage plays for another 30 years until pulled down by the Puritans in 1644. 1644. in Puritans the by down pulled until years 30 another for plays stage to continued

Lord Chamberlain’s Men in 1599. The first building burnt down in 1613, and its replacement replacement its and 1613, in down burnt building first The 1599. in Men Chamberlain’s Lord industrial feel as the track follows local roads and tarmac paths to reach Earlsfield. Earlsfield. reach to paths tarmac and roads local follows track the as feel industrial

mark the site of the original Globe Theatre, built by William Shakespeare’s playing company, the the company, playing Shakespeare’s William by built Theatre, Globe original the of site the mark more a has and concrete-sided now is river The track. the from seen be can which Wandle

information boards. This is the middle of the old theatre district of Southwark, and the boards boards the and Southwark, of district theatre old the of middle the is This boards. information the on wheel operational fully remaining only the to home now and Priory, Merton century

Just after you pass under Southwark Bridge on Park Street, look out on the right for some some for right the on out look Street, Park on Bridge Southwark under pass you after Just 12th the of site Mills, Abbey reaching before tramway the crossing on, heads Trail Wandle The

Globe Theatre [63] [63] Theatre Globe [33] Mills Abbey

Map Key Route Guide

Spoke 1, Part 2

Tattenham Corner to Tower Bridge

Using NCN 22, 20 and 4

Spoke 1 uses National Cycle Network Routes 22 and 20 to travel from Tattenham Corner to Earlsfield, before taking London Cycle Network routes