Self Guided Walks
There are FREE audio guides for many of the Walk London walk routes, which are available to download from the various walk route pages.
If you would like to explore more of London, this page provides links to websites that provide other ‘self guided walks’ – walks you can follow on your own without a leader but which give you a route and describe the features on the way.
If you know of any walks we should include please contact us or send details to info@walklondon.org.uk
Charles Darwin Audio Trails in Bromley
Visit audiotrails.co.uk to download a series of free audio trails featuring walks around Bromley that promote the work of Charles Darwin.
In general the walks are about 2 miles in length and will take approximately 2 hours to complete. Most routes are suitable for pushchairs and wheelchairs, but please familiarise yourself with the route before setting off.
Visit:
http://www.audiotrails.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25&Itemid=11 for more information and to download the trails.
Talk the Walk
Visit the Free London Events website for free podcast walks. Every week John the cabby, records a walk around London which you can download on to your MP3 player and then you can learn about all the interesting features of a specific area of London.
http://www.freelondonevents.co.uk/talkthewalk.htm
Explore Golders Green – one of the first metro-suburbs
To coincide with a major exhibition on Suburbia at the London Transport Museum in Covent Garden, the Community Curator has been working with local people to develop a series of walks round Golders Green suburb. Check out their interactive maps at www.ltmuseum.org/learning where you can add your own highlights as well as downloading the walk map. Look out for free guided walks on these routes in March 2010.
Walk Talk Tours
Go walk about in London with five audio tour guides. Available in English, French, German and Spanish. Download and away you go.
Visit http://www.walktalktour.com/londontourfull.html for more information.
The Dog Rose Trust
You can listen to or download free mp3 downloads for all the strategic walks on the Dog Rose Sound website. For more information on The Dog Rose Trust - an innovative charity working to make all environments accessible to people with visual and other sensory impairments visit their website.
MP3 Towpath Tour
Walk the canal from Camden Locks to the London Canal Museum with a free audio towpath tour for your Ipod or MP3 player. The tour points out all the sights to see and explains the fascinating history of this stretch of canal as you walk along it. The walk includes a visit to Islington Tunnel, just off the route.
The tour starts at Camden Locks - nearest Tube Camden Town. There is about 35 minutes of audio commentary but you will be asked to pause the tour every now and again. The time required for the tour will be around 60 - 80 minutes. The route is accessible to wheelchair users and the distance is about two miles. The tour is suitable for adults and older children.
You can also access the "WAPwalk", which covers the same route as the MP3 tour using the mobile Internet on your mobile phone. The walk is available from:
www.canalmuseum.org.uk/mobile
(Mobile phones only, does not work on Microsoft Internet Explorer. but works with all the main mobile phone browsers)
Walks around Chesham
Chesham Community Vision has launched 6 new walking routes which all start from Chesham Station on the Metropolitan Line. Each route has its own leaflet containing a map and further details to guide you on your way.
The routes are between 2 miles and 8 ½ miles long and include highlights such as a heritage trail around Chesham town centre, a stroll through the rolling countryside to the east of the town taking in the newly regenerated Meades Water Gardens and a walk through history which takes you to Bovingdon airfield, where Clark Gable, James Stewart and William Holden were based during World War Two!
You can pick up free copies of the walk leaflets from Chesham Town Hall and Chesham Library, or download the PDFs from
www.chesham.gov.uk/Walks/Chesham_Walks.aspx
London Challenges
There are six self-guided walks for you to download on the urbaneer website. You can choose from the city east and city west, clerkenwell, whitechapel, canary wharf or bayswater.
Discover Newham
There are 4 new walks to enjoy in Newham that are between 1-2 hours long. Each walk has a FREE downloadable audio guide and easy to read, colourful map. Try these walks and discover the sights and sounds of an amazing part of London.
Visit the newham.com website to find out more.
Footnotes Audio Walks
After being recommended a walk including climbing a steep hill and over a wall Marie Holden resolved to make it easier for people with pushchairs and wheelchairs to find places to go. So, being a determined person Marie set up 2 new websites providing searchable information for anyone walking with wheels, or simply looking for barrier-free walks.
These walks are guides available as MP3 downloads and CDs which allow you to explore places at your own pace. Some of the walks cover well known areas, others take you to locations ignored in conventional guide books.
The guides draw on history, architecture, science, literature, even gossip and reflect the interests of the different compilers. Walks take between one and two hours, and you can do them when you wish. There are currently twenty four walks to choose from: twenty in London, four outside London.
The audio walk guides cost £6.00 each.
www.footnotesaudiowalks.co.uk
Battle of Britain Heritage Walk
Taking approximately 45 minutes, the walk takes you past key sites and monuments relating to the Battle of Britain. The leaflet is downloadable as 4 separate pdf files.
www.raf.mod.uk/events/bobheritagewalk.cfm
Walks with …
Walks from London's Tube
Follow the link to find a series of walks and places to visit that you can do straight from the tube in the greater London area.
www.londontuberambles.co.uk
Walk Your Way to Better Health in Islington
Follow this link to find a number of self guided walking routes around the borough of Islington
www.islington.gov.uk/Transport/GreenTravel/walking.asp
Walkwell Routes in Hammersmith & Fulham
Download maps of self guided walkwell routes from the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham council website.
Bushy Park Heritage Trials
There are five Bushy Park Heritage Trails. These are self-guided walks with maps, stopping points, images and audio guides
www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/bushy_park/heritage_trails/index.cfm
Walking For Leisure in Camden
Camden is definitely best seen on foot. Get out and about and enjoy a diverse mix of places from the heart of the city in Bloomsbury and Covent Garden to bustling shopping centres in Camden Town and Kilburn to the old villages of Hampstead and Highgate to the great open spaces of Regent’s Park and Hampstead Heath
www.camden.gov.uk/ccm/navigation/leisure/outdoor-camden/walking-for-leisure/
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