Thames Path Walk Year 5 (Final)

Barnes Bridge to Thames Barrier, 3 days, February 2007

Click thumbnails for larger image; use your browser's Back button to return here.


Mon 5th February, 10:19
Setting off from Barnes Bridge
10:20
Looking downstream
10:34, 0.7 miles
Nature Reserve
10:55, 1.8 miles
Hammersmith Bridge
10:59, 2.1 miles
Was Harrod's Furniture Depository
11:23, 3.5 miles
Putney Pier
11:48, 5 miles
River Wandle & Bell Lane Creek
13:02, 7 miles
Battersea Bridge
13:07, 7.2 miles
Albert Bridge
13:16, 7.6 miles
Peace Pagoda, Battersea Park
13:24, 8 miles
Chelsea Bridge
13:48 9.2 miles
Battersea Power Station reconstruction site
13:51, 9.4 miles
One of many unattractive excursions the 'Thames Path' takes
13:54, 9.5 miles
Back at the riverside, approaching the heart of London
13:55, 9.5 miles
Fortunately, not a typical sight

14:12, 10.5 miles
Parliament and London Eye

14:24, 11 miles
Houses of Parliament and Big Ben

14:38, 11.7 miles
London Eye

14:44, 11.8 miles
Approaching Hungerford Bridge
14:45, 11.8 miles
Looking back past the Eye
14:49, 12 miles
Under the arches of Waterloo Bridge
14:59, 12.5 miles
Blackfriars Bridge
Thu 15th February
HMS Belfast & Tower Bridge
Mon 26 February, 09:30, 1.3 miles
Tower Bridge
09:36, 1 mile
Sculpture 'Girl with a Dolphin'
09:44, 1.4 miles
Looking back at Tower Bridge
10:04, 2.2 miles
My only visit to this famous pub was about 40 years earlier
11:13, 5.3 miles
Royal Naval College
(Now Greenwich University campus)
11:15, 5.4 miles
Through the tunnel to Greenwich
11:21, 6.1 miles
Canary Wharf, 1.5 miles away
11:21, 6.1 miles
Typical scene approaching the Dome
11:29, 6.4 miles
First sight of the Millennium Dome
12:16, 7.3 miles
Near Tate & Lyle's refinery
12:25, 7.8 miles
Approaching the Dome
12:33, 8.1 miles
Canary Wharf from the Dome
12:41, 8.5 miles
The tightly secured Dome construction site
13:13, 10 miles
End of Thames Path in sight
13:19, 10.4 miles
The Thames Barrier, end of the walk
Map of walk

 

NOTES

Selection of photos taken with Canon IXUS 60, 6 Megapixels

 

Day 1, Mon 5th February, trains to Barnes Bridge

Walk: Barnes Bridge to Blackfriars Bridge, 12.8 miles

Returned home by trains from Blackfriars

 

Day 2, Thu 15th February, train/bus to Embankment

Walk: Blackfriars Bridge to Tower Bridge 1.3 miles

 

Day 3, Mon 26th February, trains to London Bridge

Walk: (London Bridge) then Tower Bridge to Thames barrier, 11.7 miles

Returned home by trains from Charlton

 

Total walking = 25 miles (plus walks to/from stations and home)

See also
Thames Path Walk 2003
, Thames Path Walk 2004 , Thames Path Walk 2005 , Thames Path Walk 2006

 

Page created March 2007, Terry Pinnell.