Category: Walk reports
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TRING CIRCULAR – 25 FEBRUARY
It was a classic February day, cloudy, average temperature with a nippy north easterly wind blowing but dry, when 15 Poly Ramblers assembled outside Tring station for a circular walk. The walk would take us not in the direction of the Ridgeway but the opposite direction around the village of Wigginton and up into Ashridge…
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MID-WEEK WALK for GALANTHOPHILES from CREWS HILL – 22 FEBRUARY
The day started with the first rain in a month but stayed dry during our walk for lovers of snowdrops. Nine Poly Ramblers met at Crews Hill station and headed to Whitewebbs Wood. We followed the northern edge of this ancient woodland and came to the Whitewebbs golf course which has been closed by Enfield…
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London Loop – Erith to Bexley 19 February
Erith to Bexley – a rocky start when station staff at Abbey wood sent us to the wrong bus stop and we had to rush back and up some steep steps to catch our rail replacement bus to Erith. Our cardio for the day! Well done to the new group member who, not realising that…
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HIGH BARNET TO COCKFOSTERS – 11 FEBRUARY
As 20 Poly Ramblers strode out of High Barnet tube station a little boy turned to his father open-mouthed. “What a big family!” he exclaimed. And so we set off on an unusually mild day, beginning with an ascent through King George’s Field that rewarded us with fantastic views over London. Arriving at the ancient…
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Rotherhithe to Canada Water – 29 January
Nineteen members and two guests met at Rotherhithe station on Sunday 29th January on a mild but overcast morning for a walk around the redeveloped Surrey Commercial Docks. First, we went to the Mayflower pub named after the Pilgrim Fathers ship which set off from its wharf for the New World in 1620. The ship’s captain…