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Colliers Wood to Putney Bridge (Wandle Trail) walk

River Wandle Trail and the Thames Path

Easy London Short

History

This is a list of previous times this walk has been done by the club (since Jan 2010). For more recent events (since April 2015), full details are shown.

Date Option Post # Weather
Thu, 20-Jul-23 Evening Walk - The Wandle Trail and the Thames Path (Colliers Wood to Putney or Hammersmith) 8
Thu, 18-Aug-22 Evening Walk - The Wandle Trail (Colliers Wood to Putney or Hammersmith) 10 pleasantly warm
Wed, 02-Dec-20 Colliers Wood to Putney
Sat, 01-Sep-18 [New!] [Weekend Short Walk] Colliers Wood to Putney : Wandle Trail, Thames Path, Bishops Palace 3 Sunny
Thu, 09-Aug-18 Evening Walk - The Wandle Trail: Colliers Wood to Putney Bridge, Putney or Hammersmith 10 overcast but dry
Thomas G
Length: 8.8 km (5.5 mi) [longer to Hammersmith]
Net Walking Time: 2 hrs
Meet: Colliers Wood Station at 18.45 hours. Colliers Wood is on the Northern line in Zone 3, and a 26-minute journey from Bank.
Finish: either at Putney Bridge station (District Line) or at Putney Mainline (trains to Waterloo). You can also walk on to Hammersmith (Piccadilly, District and Hammersmith & City lines).
Drop-Outs: Haydens Road station, Earlsfield station, Wandsworth station.

This walk follows the last 6 km of the River Wandle Trail in south west London to the River Thames, then follows a pretty stretch of the Thames Path through Wandsworth Park to Putney. The walk finishes at a large riverside pub, with options to continue along the Thames Path or explore 2 more riverside parks. The Wandle Trail section is a mix of paths alongside a narrow river, small urban parks and open spaces (some nice, some unkempt) passing back gardens and some industrial areas. The Trail is waymarked, but mainly for cyclists (blue signs with a water wheel for cyclists, green signs with a water wheel for walkers). The route is being improved over time as former industrial areas are gentrified. The river has an interesting industrial heritage, it has a very steep gradient, so it was channelled to drive water wheels, now the route's symbol.


Eat/Drink: By Putney Bridge there are two riverside pubs, with a terrace - a Wetherspoon’s and a Young’s.

For walk directions, map, photos, and gpx/kml files click here. T=short.25

  • 10-Aug-23

    8 walkers on this one apparently. as told on today's evening walk by one who was there.

Thomas G

Length: 8.8 km (5.5 mi) [longer to H’smith]

Net Walking Time: 2 hrs

Meet: Colliers Wood Station at 18.30 hours. Colliers Wood is on the Northern line in Zone 3, and a 26-minute journey from Bank.
Finish: either at Putney Bridge station (District Line) or at Putney Mainline (trains to Waterloo). You can also walk on to Hammersmith (Piccadilly, District and Hammersmith & City lines).
Drop-Outs: Haydens Road station, Earlsfield station, Wandsworth station.
This walk follows the last 6 km of the River Wandle Trail in south west London to the River Thames, then follows a pretty stretch of the Thames Path through Wandsworth Park to Putney. The walk finishes at a large riverside pub, with options to continue along the Thames Path or explore 2 more riverside parks. The Wandle Trail section is a mix of paths alongside a narrow river, small urban parks and open spaces (some nice, some unkempt) passing back gardens and some industrial areas. The Trail is waymarked, but mainly for cyclists (blue signs with a water wheel for cyclists, green signs with a water wheel for walkers).


Eat/Drink: By Putney Bridge - a Wetherspoon’s and a Young’s.

For walk directions, map, photos, and gpx/kml files click here. T=short.25

  • 15-Aug-22

    I'm working til 7.15 pm, so although I live nr Coll Wood, I'll try and find you. The Bricklayers Arms in Putney is the key pub selling pizzas i understand.

    https://www.google.com/search?q=putney+bricklayers+arms&oq=putney+brick&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0i22i30i457j0i22i30j0i10i22i30j0i390l3.5859j0j7&client=ms-android-huawei-rev1&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#wptab=si:AC1wQDDDdL41DEgjGyPOBigrwOqEtAfVPK6SpxezkPo4ljNSZnHfV2tOCFDoPiqbbG6fI61wrTN1ytSQ5ND2_fweIVRohVn9fqWYVc5fanS9A7pzgOaBX4aL2_RIx19DcXN18QWPSy_gHWtXSxupZM-SCzvZw6DaNw%3D%3D

  • 18-Aug-22

    About 10 after some late comers caught up on a pleasantly warm evening. Most enjoyed the end of the Wandle trail then a short stretch of Thames Path which was new to many . The riverside Wethies was very crowded with teenagers comemmerating A level results day. Most left soon after eating as nearby Putney Bridge tube was closed due to the strike. The late evening bus rides were surprisingly quick. No route changes, but new riverside developments look promising

Wed, 02-Dec-20 : Colliers Wood to Putney ?
Andrew
Andrew

Easy, about 5 miles
Meet outside Colliers Wood tube @11am
Drivers: park near Dean City Farm, there is a bus back to nearby Tooting Walk along the Wandle Trail to the Thames, then follow it to Putney Bridge
Lunch or a coffee at the Rocket (Wethies). You MUST sit (or stand) outside. Alcohol can only be served with food (bring a hip flask to fortify that coffee)
Cross the bridge with churches at either end to Bishops Park
Finish there, or optionally, continue along the Thames to Hammersmith, Richmond, Kingston or Oxford
L=short.25
Andrew
Meet at Colliers Wood tube station (zone 3) at 12:00

5.5 miles, no ascent

This is an easy short walk along the Wandle Trail to the Thames, then along the Thames Path to Putney, with a choice of riverside pubs (Wetherspoons, and Youngs), churches (at either end of the bridge) and Bishop's Palace (tea room, free entry).

For a longer walk, you could carry on along the Thames Path to Hammersmith

This is an experiment to see if there is a demand for short walks on a weekend

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  • 01-Sep-18

    3 walkers enjoyed this rather urban walk. Enhanced by a stop at Earlsfield for iced chocolate frappé, croissant and pastéis de Nata.

    Consensus was that it's not a real replacement for a proper country walk but a reasonable alternative if you had a pint too many on Friday Eve.

  • Anonymous
    01-Sep-18

    3 Sunny

Thomas G
Length: 8.8 km (5.5 mi) [longer to H’smith]
Net Walking Time: 2 hrs
Meet: Colliers Wood Station at 18.45 hours. Colliers Wood is on the Northern line in Zone 3, and a 26 minute journey from Bank.
Finish: either at Putney Bridge station (District Line) or at Putney Mainline (trains to Waterloo). You can also walk on to Hammersmith (Piccadilly, District and Hammersmith & City lines).
Drop-Outs: Haydens Road station, Earlsfield station, Wandsworth station.
This walk follows the last 6 km of the River Wandle Trail in south west London to the River Thames, then follows a pretty stretch of the Thames Path through Wandsworth Park to Putney. The walk finishes at a large riverside pub, with options to continue along the Thames Path or explore 2 more riverside parks. The Wandle Trail section is a mix of paths alongside a narrow river, small urban parks and open spaces (some nice, some unkempt) passing back gardens and some industrial areas. The Trail is waymarked, but mainly for cyclists (blue signs with a water wheel for cyclists, green signs with a water wheel for walkers).

Eat/Drink: The Rocket, by Putney Bridge (Wetherspoon’s).
For walk directions, map, photos, and gpx/kml files click here. T=short.25
  • 09-Aug-18

    10 walkers (incl. one arriving a little late) in overcast but dry weather, something of a result, as it had been raining all day. Mixed bag of a walk, as the writeup promised: a bit of everything from pretty parks to industrial backlands. Entirely on tarmac as well. Quite interesting though we thought.

    Having had some problems finding our way through the first park, for the remainder route finding was relatively straight forward, although - due to plenty of house building - one has to keep on top of directions and map at all times.

    One left the walk at Earlsfield station, the rest reached Putney Bridge at 1/4 to 9, just as some rain set in. We eschewed the Wetherspoon's and the neighbouring Boathouse, and made our way to the Duke's Head, a wise choice it turned out. Most had a meal. Everyone (I think) left from Putney mainline station towards Clapham J./Waterloo.