This walk moves from the 1990s financial district through the old West India Docks, via a city farm with the best view of the towers, under the Thames, and up to the hill where Greenwich time begins.
The Crossrail Place Roof Garden is the counter-intuitive starting point: free tropical planting on the roof of a financial district train station, and almost always empty. The Mudchute Farm sits on twenty-two acres created by the spoil excavated when the docks were built, with sheep and pigs grazing in the shadow of One Canada Square. The Greenwich Foot Tunnel is the transition — nineteenth-century engineering under the river — and the Observatory is the ending.
