16.7 mile South-east London circuit

Interesting circular London walk route

Camberwell - Dulwich - Peckham - Lewisham - Deptford - Surrey Quays - Bermondsey - Camberwell

In preparation for our 250-mile walk we're doing a series of training walks to get our fitness levels up.

The aim of this walk route was to pass through as many of south-east London's parks as we could find whilst walking a circuit heading anti-clockwise from our starting point in Camberwell.

With this rough plan in mind, we set off and headed through Ruskin Park.  Next, we went via East Dulwich to Peckham Rye Park. We then wove our way towards Brockley where we climbed up to Hilly Fields Park to find the Stone Circle.

Stone circle in Hilly Fields Park

From here, we dropped down to Lewisham and followed the creek up to Deptford where we joined the Thames Path, heading west.

View where Deptford Creek joins the Thames

Passing through two small parks, Sayes Court Park and Pepys Park, we reached Greenland Quay and spotted Russia Dock Woodland so we diverted from following the quayside to keep up the theme of walking through as much greenery as possible.

After Canada Water, we reached Southwark Park and followed Jamaica Road to Tower Bridge. Pit stop for lunch in the Bridge House, then south via Burgess Park back to Camberwell. The idea here was to roughly follow the route of the former Grand Surrey Canal.

The final park of the day was Myatt's Fields Park, which we skirted the edge of, back to our starting point and completing the 16.7 mile round-trip.

Our walk route

It was a very chilly January day when we completed this walk so this kept us moving at quite a pace. I would happily retrace a similar walk in Spring or Autumn and allow time for exploring the parks in more detail.