Month: May 2016

Travelodge has opened Richmond-upon-Thames. The budget hotel,  9 Paradise Road TW9 1RX in the town centre, is handy for the river.

Christina Hardyment grew up in Richmond where she played by the lock and went upstream to Hampton for school. She danced on Eel Pie Island. Later she lived at Ashton Keynes in Wiltshire where you can almost jump across the river. Now the author lives in Oxford where she knows Port Meadow in summer and […]

“The Ramblers of London oppose the Garden Bridge.” said Inner London Ramblers chair Phil Marson speaking at St John’s Waterloo on Monday. He was addressing a packed meeting called to rally opposition to the proposed Garden Bridge and press new London Mayor Sadiq Khan to cancel it. After suggesting that the money involved could be […]

Thames Central Open Spaces is hosting a public meeting to ask new London Mayor Sadiq Khan to reconsider the funding for the proposed Garden Bridge. The meeting is on Monday 16 May at 7pm at St John’s Church Waterloo, opposite the IMAX and near the Garden Bridge site. Local MP Kate Hoey has agreed to […]

A surprise plan has been announced to reopen the Kemble to Cirencester railway line. One of the pleasures on reaching the source of the Thames in a remote Gloucestershire meadow is that there is a railway station nearby. However, many walkers would like to pause at the end rather than catch a train from Kemble […]