Month: March 2015

  This spring is a best time to walk the Thames Path on Runnymede near Egham for this summer there will be a growing focus on Magna Carta 800. The document was agreed by King John and his discontented barons at Runnymede in 1215. It is taken as the start of the rule of law […]

After forty years Putney Sea Scouts are in danger of losing their riverside site. Landlord Wandsworth Council is not renewing the lease as it wants the Scout building to be shared with a learning disability project. Scout leaders deem the building to be too small for sharing following an attempt at using the same facilities […]

A sundial has been placed on the Thames Path across the water from the Tower of London. The timepiece has been designed by Piers Nicholson, the son of conservationist Max Nicholson who died in 2003. This stretch of the Thames Path in front of Potters Fields is also part of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee Walkway […]

There is a temporary diversion in Oxford from Monday 9 March. Just upstream of Folly Bridge there will be work on the footbridge carrying the towpath over the main Bulstake Stream channel. DIVERSION DIRECTIONS: Go over the Gas Bridges to follow Castle Mill Stream. At Oxpends Road go left to walk as far as Park […]