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Sources for history and walks in London

• books
• maps
• web sites

I have come across many sources while researching background notes for walks, the most frequently consulted are below. If you think I have used your sources and inadequately acknowledged them please inform me so I can correct that. Equally, please email me if you discover a link is out of date so I can correct it. I am always interested in new sources. The links in blue have access to maps with walking.

• WikiPedia
• London Gardens on Line
• London Parks & Gardens Trust
• British History on Line
• Isle of Dogs — Past Life, Past Lives
• Trinity Buoy Wharf
• Vestry House Museum
• National Trust Sutton House
• Whitechapel Bell Foundry
• Wilton's Music Hall
• Vauxhall Gardens
• Camden History Society publications
• Princes Coverts
• The History of London
• Surrey Docks
• Camden Interchange Building
• A history of Balham
• Hawkwood and Petts Wood
• Docks on Isle of Dogs
• Inner Temple
• Woolwich Dockyard history
• Royal Arsenal Woolwich
• Royal Gunpowder Mills
• Lee Valley Park maps etc.
• Berkhamsted Castle
• Ashridge House
• Severndroog Castle
• Beckenham Place Friends
• Wandle Trail
• Victoria County History Middlesex
• Royal Parks Bushy Park
• Leighton House Museum
• Fulham Palace
• Crosby Hall
• Horton Country Park
• City of London Green Spaces
• Camden Ice Wells
• Grosvenor Walk in Belgravia
• Tooting Common Heritage Project
• Scadbury Park
• Hawkwood & Petts Wood
• HGS Trust
• Chelsea Physic Garden
• Bedford Park Society
• Fullers Brewery
• Friends of Wanstead Park
• St Mary the Virgin Bexley
• Foots Cray Meadows
• BHO Survey of London
• Spitalfields History
• East London History
• Exploring East London
• Henry Raine
• Museum of London
• Epsom Common
• Camden Railway Heritage Trust
• Crouch End appraisal
• Richmond history
• Between the Commons EH Survey London
• History of Chislehurst
• Shuttle Riverway
• Hampstead Garden Suburb
• City of London Green Spaces
• Happy Valley history
• Chelsea Harbour

Historical Maps/Directories of London

You may have to persevere with some of these links to get what you want. Some of the maps may have an imprecise date.

For developing walks, Ordnance Survey Explorer series (2½ ins to 1 mile) is ideal as it includes rights of way. An online version without gaps is available in Bing Maps (Seamless transition between OS style, AZ style and satellite images). Openstreetmap is invaluable for showing all the footpaths whereas Google maps is useful for when you get lost!

Leaflets of walk maps are available from libraries or web sites, including Wandle Trail, Pymmes Brook Trail, Dollis Valley Green Walk etc. And noticeboards with maps and historical information in areas of interest can be photographed and used at home.

• National Library of Scotland maps
• University of Leicester directories
• Historic England searchable listed buildings
• Roque environs of London 1741-45
• Roque London Map 1746
• Horwood Map 1799 / Faden 1819
• Greenwood Map 1827
• Crutchley Map 1849
• Cross's New Plan 1850
• Stanfords London map 1862
• Weller London map 1868
• Stanfords London map 1872
• 6 inch OS maps London 1896
• Street Directories Univ Leicester
• Layers of London
• Bing Maps OS
• Open Street map
• Google maps

See transport page for London rail and freedom pass networks

Books

The following books have been a source of inspiration.

• Andrew Duncan's Favourite Walks
  • very well presented - 50 London walks
• Walking across London, Patrick Hamilton
  • 15 walks across London; an inspiration for my own cross London walks
• The London Loop, David Sharp, Aurum Press
  • The authoritative version of this 140 mile walk around London
• The Capital Ring, Colin Saunders, Aurum Press
  • The authoritative version of this 75 mile walk around London
• Country Walks Around London, Geoff Garvey & Leigh Hatts
  • Mainstream Publishing/London Transport
  • Following on from LT's Country walks series; well thought out walks from PT
• Secret London, An Unusual Guide, Rachel Howard & Bill Nash, Jonglez
  • Not specifically a book of walks; all sorts of lesser known facts described & mapped

Walk web sites

• London Footprints http://www.london-footprints.co.uk/walkslist.htm
  • A wealth of London walk instructions in minute detail
• Fancy Free Walks http://fancyfreewalks.org/index.html
  • 350 accurately detailed walks in south east England
• Footways map https://footways.london/digital-map
  • A map of pedestrian routes in central London