Route Overview

Jubilee Walkway

The Jubilee Walkway is the capital's premier walking trail and one of London's seven designated Strategic Routes. Designed to connect the majority of London's key attractions, it is well managed, easy to follow and provides an ideal way of getting to know London.

The Walkway was designed so that anyone walking it would have "travelled through areas of London noted for entertainment, assembly, ceremonial, and open-air activity, passing many historic sites" (Max Nicholson 1977).

This is a grand tour on foot of London's leading attractions, so good you walk it twice! It is really two routes in one, as it can easily be done at night, when most of the sights are lit up and present a glorious and completely different experience from the one you see in daylight. (Note that St James's Park, Victoria Tower Gardens and some other places through which the route passes are closed at night, but alternative parallel routes are obvious.) The Millennium Bridge forms part of the route, providing an opportunity for additional loops.

The Walkway was first developed for The Queen's Silver Jubilee in 1977 and The Jubilee Walkway Trust was then set up in 1978 as a charity to look after its interest in partnership with strategic and local authorities.

Distance walking each Section

Section:	km:	ml:
1 (The Western Loop walk)	Approximately 9	Approximately 6
2 (The Eastern Loop walk)	Approximately 8	Approximately 5
3 (The City Loop)	Approximately 3	Approximately 2
4 (The Camden Loop)	Approximately 5	Approximately 3
5 (The Jubilee Loop walk)	Approximately 3	Approximately 2

Boroughs which the route passes through:

Camden
City of London
City of Westminster
Lambeth
Southwark
Tower Hamlets

Interesting places on or near the route:

Lambeth Bridge
Leicester Square
Museum of London and surrounding area
Sir John Soane's Museum

Signage:

Directional discs are set in the footway at every junction, the cross of the crown pointing in the direction of travel. Panels, generously sponsored by organisations close to the path, interpret the views from the Walkway across London.

In addition there are gold discs on the Walkway, these mark special events in the history of the Walkway.

Further information:

For more information about the Jubilee Walkway Trust click here.

Max Nicholson was the originator of the Jubilee Walkway.

Further information on the Chairman of the Jubilee Walkway Trust
http://www.hugovickers.co.uk/

For free audio guides that cover sections of the Jubilee Walkway or some of the attractions along the route have a look at the following websites:

iaudioguide.com - from this website you can download a free 6 track audio guide that covers Kensington Palace, Hyde Park, Buckingham Palace, 10 Downing Street, Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben.

London Walks - from this website you can download free audio guides of walks around London many of which cover parts of the Jubilee Walkway.

Visit the Dorling Kindersley website for a free audio guide of a walk which starts at Westminster station and follows the south bank for about 1¾ miles to London Bridge. Read by Radio 2's Richard Allinson it tells you where to look, where to stop and where to eat and drink along the way.

Take a look at the Visit London website for free podcasts and video guides

 

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