Welcome

The Ramblers helps everyone, everywhere, enjoy walking and protects the places we all love to walk. We are the only charity dedicated to looking after paths and green spaces, leading walks, opening up new places to explore and encouraging everyone to get outside and discover how walking boosts your health and your happiness.

The Inner London Area of the Ramblers is made up of ten groups located in London. It is just one of many Areas that make up the national organisation.

Although London may not seem like an obvious location for walkers, there are over 12,000 Ramblers members living here, with about 4,500 of them in Inner London, making it one of the most populous areas for walkers to live in the UK. The Thames Path, which runs through our Area, is the most walked path in the country!

As well as walking in our own area, including in the very heart of London, we travel across the South East England, with groups regularly making trips to the Chilterns, South Downs, South Coast, Kent, Essex, Surrey, Hertfordshire, as well as further afield.

 

 Inner London Ramblers group map

Walking the Green Link Walk

  • Route: Green Link Walks
  • Section#: 1, 2, 3, 4

London’s newest walking route, the Green Link Walk, is now open. It connects nearly 40 areas of green space large and small. Our news page for the route has a map giving an overview of the whole walk which runs from Epping Forest to Peckham. 

Most of the route has now been waymarked but there are some gaps both in the Lea Valley and in the City of London. Work continues to improve the signage along the route.

The main route has been designed with accessibility in mind. As well as removing barriers such as bollards to ensure that everyone can access the route, the Green Link Walk also avoids streets without dropped kerbs and bridges with steep ramps and steps.

Our walk guidance offers alternative routes and diversions that explore more of the green spaces and places of interest along the way. These variants, however, may not meet the wheelability standards of the main route.

Download your free walk guidance here

Click on the title of a section, in the table below, to download the PDF file of walk guidance with maps.

We have walked the route several times to check that our guidance is as clear as possible. 

Green Link Walk news page

Ramblers volunteers monitor all sections of the Green Link Walk with the aim of ensuring that they are properly maintained and improved for the public to enjoy. We report any short term changes that make it difficult to walk any of the sections on the news page for the Green Link Walk. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. of any problems that you come across so that we can warn other walkers - including a photo if that is possible.

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Please This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.if you think that there are places where we need to update the guidance you have downloaded from this site.

Section Distance Transport to start Transport from end
Epping Forest to Lea Bridge 4.5 miles 20 bus to Woodford New Road 55 or 56 bus from the Lee Valley Ice Centre
Lea Bridge to Regent’s Canal 5.0 miles 55 or 56 bus to the Lee Valley Ice Centre Angel tube station
Regent’s Canal to Bankside 2.5 miles Angel tube station Blackfriars station
Bankside to Peckham 4.0 miles Blackfriars station Peckham Rye station