London Loop - Couverture souple

Sharp, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1854107593 ISBN 13 : 9781854107596

Editeur : Aurum Press, 2001

Synopsis

The London LOOP (London Outer Orbital Path) is the newly created network of footpaths around the periphery of the capital. It is the result of ten years' work by the London Walking Forum to devise a route encompassing some of the glorious countryside that lies within easy reach of the heart of London.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The LOOP (London Outer Orbital Path) is a 140-mile (224-km) walking route around the capital's periphery that utilises the network of rural footpaths linking the secret ribbons of greenery that still survive amidst the suburban sprawl. In this guide the route is divided into fifteen sections, each representing a reasonable day's walking and starting and finishing at locations readily accessible by public transport. Users of the guide will be astonished at the extent and variety of the countryside that still exists within the orbit of this walker s M25 and at the number of fascinating sites ancient woodlands, historic buildings and parklands, picturesque villages, rivers, canals and nature reserves to which the Loop will lead them. David Sharp, Londoner and veteran rambler, was one of the founding fathers of the Loop which (like the second, inner, orbital path, the Capital Ring, also the subject of one of Aurum's Recreational Path Guides) was conceived and devised by the London Walking Forum and developed in collaboration with the London boroughs in the course of the 1990s.

Présentation de l'éditeur

For 140 miles, the London LOOP (London Outer Orbital Path) follows a green corridor right around the capital, offering a circular walk among secret countryside that can make you forget you re within a few miles of Heathrow Airport, the A13, or the suburban sprawl of Croydon, Watford or Dagenham.

Here is rolling downland near Coulsdon, the forest of Enfield Chase, the lonely Thames marshes at Rainham, the classical parkland of Bushy Park and a canalside stroll at Uxbridge. London could not seem further away.

Each of the guide s 15 sections represents a day s walk of reasonable length, and starts and finishes at a public transport point.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Aurum Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1854107593
• ISBN 13: 9781854107596
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible