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London walking routes — 53 editor-picked walks with maps and what’s on

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walking london

53 routes, picked by an editor who’s walked them all.

London is a dozen villages that never quite merged, and the only honest way to tell Hampstead from Bermondsey from Peckham is to walk them.

London rewards walking the way few capitals do: cross a single road and the accent, the architecture, the whole century change. Start on Hampstead Heath with half the skyline below you, or follow the river from Wapping's old wharves down to the South Bank. Greenwich keeps its meridian, Clerkenwell its clocks and monasteries. The Tube only teaches you the gaps between places; walking teaches you the places.

No leaderboards, no algorithm — just the walks the editor thought were worth your time, with notes on what to actually look at along the way.

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