Walking London's Waterways: Great Routes for Walking, Running and Cycling Along Docks, Rivers and Canals PDF - ePUB »New routes where paths have opened up along the Thames, the Bow Back Rivers and the Lee Valley Vital revisions, additions and updates, plus link to interactive online blog with latest news, comments and photos New photos that reveal surprising perspectives of hidden London Walking London s Waterways is a guide to more than 100 miles of off-road routes along river-banks, canal towpaths and docks. A combination of detailed route directions and travel narrative, it works as well for cyclists and runners as it does for walkers, revealing parts of London you never knew existed. The new edition is extensively updated, with more than 20 new photos that are informative in their focus on interesting aspects of waterway architecture or history. If you have an earlier edition, it needs replacing! Chapters explore rivers great and small - from the Thames and its role in London s development as a port, commercial centre and cultural capital, to tributaries of almost-rural green; ever-expanding docks to accommodate whalers and windjammers, Cunard liners and container ships; canals that evolved from polluted transport links to corridors for wildlife and pleasure boats. Gilly Cameron Cooper s engaging text provides the ideal companion for your exploration of London s waterways, peeling back layers of trading and cultural history. Discover how a canal lock works, trade, transport and invasion through the ages, and the sometimes exotic wildlife of London s waterways. Practical information includes route maps for each chapter, distances, public transport, and a gazetteer of places of interest with website links for opening times. Contents: Introduction Themed chapters on dock, river and canals include: The Ebb & Flow of London s History; A Flight of Locks, Wharves & Warehouses, Sporting Thames (the boat race course), Rural Brooks (Folly, Dollis & Mutton), Reinventing the Landscape (of Greenwich), Old Rivers for New (and the Olympic legacy) Gazetteer of places of interest, with website links Bibliography Websites Index