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Boston Manor to Osterley Short Walk

Grand Union Canal and Osterley Park (NT)

Easy London Short

History

Club walks since April 2015, and a summary which goes back to Jan 2010.

Date Option Post # Weather
Thu, 13-Feb-25 Evening Walk - River Brent, Grand Union Canal and Osterley Park: Boston Manor to Osterley 5 cold but dry
Thu, 08-Aug-19 Evening Walk - River Brent, Grand Union Canal and Osterley Park: Boston Manor to Osterley 10 warm and sticky
Tue, 04-Sep-18 Evening walk - Boston Manor to Osterley 5
Wed, 29-Jun-16 Evening walk 4 mild with light breeze
Thomas G
Length: 6.2 km (3.8 mi)
Ascent: negligible
Net Walking Time: 1 ½ hrs
Meet: Boston Manor Station at 18.45 hours. Boston Manor is on the Piccadilly Line in Zone 4. Travel Time from Earl’s Court is 20 mins, from Leicester Square it is 34 mins.
Finish : Osterley station, which is one stop further to the west.
This walk takes you along the River Brent and the Grand Union Canal and through Osterley Park (along a public footpath). The grounds to Osterley Park & House themselves will be closed for the day.


Eat/Drink: The Hare and Hounds (Fuller’s) en route, plus Memories of India and Tiger Lily near Osterley Station.

For walk directions , map and gpx/kml files click here .

  • Thomas G
    Feb-25

    5 started quite a bit delayed due to some gremlins on the Piccadilly Line in cold but dry weather.

    There were quite a number of muddy stretches, all short in nature, but combined with our sparing use of head torches, a bit of awareness came in handy, especially as most were just wearing trainers.

    The fenced path after the crossing of the single track railway was a tad overgrown with brambles, so we walked parallel to it through the 'Nature Reserve' (which looks like an ex-landfill?), and at The Hare & Hounds, votes were cast whether we should stop here (20 minutes before the end) or at the end. In we went.

    Food delivery was a bit perplexing (i.e. 3 main courses, ordered at the same time, came about 20 minutes apart), but it is a nice pub with friendly staff, so all is forgiven.

    1 then walked to a bus stop for his long-ish journey back home, while 4 walked on to Osterley tube.

Thomas G
Length: 6.2 km (3.8 mi)
Net Walking Time: 1 ½ hrs
Meet: Boston Manor Station at 19.00 hours. Boston Manor is on the Piccadilly line in Zone 4. Travel Time from Earl’s Court is 20 mins, from Leicester Square it’s 34 mins.
Finish : Osterley station, which is on the Piccadilly line in Zone 4, one stop further to the west.
This walk takes you along the River Brent and the Grand Union Canal and through Osterley Park. The grounds to Osterley Park & House will be closed for the day.

Eat/Drink: The Hare and Hounds.
For walk directions , map and gpx/kml files click here .
  • DAC
    Aug-19

    Intend going

  • Thomas G
    Aug-19

    8 on time, 1 other delayed, 1 other more delayed (both due to an earlier Jubilee Line suspension), i.e. 10 in warm and sticky weather.

    Nice walking along the River Brent/Grand Union Canal (they are the same waterbody on this stretch) and across a lock, then there is a 3 minute stretch of rather claustrophobic path parallel to an indistrial single track railway line and a bit of M4 noise, and then some actually quite interesting semi-wilderness. The pub (Fuller's) is quite good, about half of people ordered a meal, eaten outside under the Heathrow flight path. 4 moved on after a drink to beat the darkness, the rest kind of achieved that as well.

    Oh, we saw a large herd of albino cows...

  • Sandy
    Aug-19

    Were they British Whites?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_White_cattle

DAC
Boston Manor to Osterley
Distance: 6km

Meet 18:45 prompt outside the entrance hall of Boston Manor underground station.

  • Anonymous
    Sep-18

    Aggressive marketing.

  • DAC
    Sep-18

    Intend going.

  • Thomas G
    Aug-19

    5 or 6 on this walk. 3 of those were on today's outing of this very walk, and they could name 2 others who had been as well, but couldn't agree on a 6th...

Wed, 29-Jun-16
Evening walk 4
DAC
DAC
Boston Manor to Osterley
Distance: 6km
Meet 19:15 outside the entrance hall of Boston Manor underground station. This is a self-led walk.
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  • DAC
    Jun-16

    Intend going.

  • PeteG
    Jun-16

    Hope to go on this. For future reference, doing the walk in reverse and having The Fox Hanwell as the pub would be better.

  • Anonymous
    Jun-16

    To encourage more people to go on these evening jaunts, could we get a brief report, perhaps,and numbers? Thanks.

  • Anonymous
    Jul-16

    No one turned up then?

  • Anonymous
    Jul-16

    4 walkers.

    Mild weather, light breeze.

  • Anonymous
    Jul-16

    mild with light breeze 4