From the bucolic charms of Hampstead Heath to the bustle of Marylebone, this pocket-sized guide will lead the serious rambler and more casual walker on voyages of discovery, each with great pubs at its heart. The walks are clearly mapped and illustrated, with detailed information on how to link multiple walks together. Over 160 pubs are featured on 30 walks and 3 special city tours by bus, tram and riverbus. Detailed pub listings are accompanied by notes on cultural and historic items of interest to be discovered along each route.
Camra's London Pub Walks
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Table of Contents
1 City classics; 2 Legal London - Temple to Holborn; 3 Through Soho - the heart of the West End; 4 Covent Garden & theatreland; 5 West One - Regent's Park to Soho; 6 Political London - Westminster & St James's; 7 Back-street Belgravia; 8 Gems around Smithfield; 9 A Central London pub heritage tour; 10 Notting Hill, Bayswater & Portobello Market; 11 Aldgate to Shoreditch via Brick Lane; 12 From King's Cross into Clerkenwell; 13 A gourmet's walk through Southwark & Borough; 14 Kentish Town locals; 15 A hilltop tour of Highgate; 16 A North London 'inside story'; 17 East beyond the Lea Valley; 18 Regent's Canal I: Islington to Hoxton; 19 Regent's Canal II: Hoxton to Mile End; 20 A beer circuit of Wandsworth Common; 21 Croydon - London's edge city; 22 Carshalton & the Wandle Trail; 23 Kingston & Teddington via Bushy Park and the Thames Path24 Richmond & Twickenham via the Thames Path; 25 Isleworth to Kew along the Thames via Syon Park; 26 Chiswick - London's brewing heartland; 27 South down the Northern Line; 28 Riverbus pub hopscotch; 29 Tramlink beer tour; 30 Central excursion by 'beer bus'.
Author Description
Bob Steel is a geographer by profession and has been a teacher for much of his life. Apart from a lifelong interest in good beer and good architecture, he is a keen walker, cyclist and organic gardener.