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ldnloop-capring.bsky.social
Ramblers volunteers improving & promoting the London Loop, Capital Ring & Green Chain Walk, keeping route guidance & maps updated & making the routes more enjoyable for all to walk.
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The new issue of @ramblers.org.uk volunteers-produced South East Walker magazine is out now including our quarterly project update and successes such as getting some new posts installed on the #LondonLoop and #CapitalRing. We also publish it in the Ramblers Inner London Area website.

Thanks to the New River Renewal Campaign for sharing that the New River Path between Green Lanes & Seven Sisters Rd is closed for '5 weeks' from Mon 10th Feb. Alternative routes on map via Seven Sisters Rd/Green Lanes (noisy) or Eade Road & Hermitage Rd (quiet) www.thameswater.co.uk/about-us/pro...

Grey day in Crystal Palace and a lovely #CapitalRing and #GreenChainWalk signpost.

"Brrr!" says little #kestrel, sitting on a lampost "ROAAARRRGH!" says huge plane, landing at #Heathrow "Shhhh…" says #mist, blanketing everything "Looplooplooplooploop" says #LondonLoop, showing me it all #NaturePhotography #BirdsOfPrey #LoveLondonWalkLondon #Poem @ldnloop-capring.bsky.social

We’ve updated the route guidance & maps for the #LondonLoop, which we do every couple of years. Huge thanks to all the volunteers involved in this mammoth project & to @transportforlondon.bsky.social for linking to the guidance from your walking pages. innerlondonramblers.org.uk/images/Ringa...

For #FingerpostFriday I'll return to last weeks wander where we joined the @ldnloop-capring.bsky.social (VERY LOOP!) near Petts Wood, and followed it to High Elms, rambling past #birds large and small #LoveLondonWalkLondon #NaturePhotography #BirdsOfPrey #WildlifePhotography

Sometimes we have to improvise! Thanks to our volunteer who came up with this ingenious solution on Section 22 of the #LondonLoop - no post to add a disc to, but that can be solved with some scrap wood, four drill holes and a couple of plastic ties. & no damage to anyone else's property!

Thanks to the Cranford Park Project Officer & the site team who have added more signs and stickers (from our supplies I think) to make the #LondonLoop easier to follow in the middle section of the park - & thank you too for sharing your photos with us!

Always depressing when waymarks get vandalised even when they are so bleached out as to be barely legible. We’ve been able to add #LondonLoop stickers to these for now but hope to get them properly replaced (they’re supposed to also sign the Thames Down Link & Hogsmill River Walk) in Kingston.

Out and about on the #LondonLoop @ldnloop-capring.bsky.social on this last morning of the year with @walking-class-hero.bsky.social - we took the 213 to Malden Manor and walked back to Kingston and then up @thamespathnt.bsky.social to home.

Our brilliant volunteers were able to get new posts installed on the #CapitalRing in Abney Park Cemetery recently after the previous waymarkers were removed during renovations. Our section volunteers & coordinator worked with the park manager, to whom huge thanks, to have the new posts installed.

Our team of Capital Ring Rangers have updated our #CapitalRing walks guidance & the new updated PDFs are free for download innerlondonramblers.org.uk/index.php?op... All sections except 13 required some revision, which goes to show the degree of change on the ground. Thanks to all the volunteers!

#LoveLondonWalkLondon me & @clarewadd.bsky.social closed out 2024 with a wander along our local sections of the LOOP & spotted this plaque commemorating the 1st geocache location

Greatly impressed by London's largest nature restoration project at Enfield Chase, by Enfield Council and @thames21.bsky.social. 60 hectares of new woodland along the valley of Salmon's Brook, helping biodiversity and natural flood management, and a massively improved stretch of the London Loop.

Woodland restoration underway in Enfield Chase, London 📷 #LondonLoop #LoveLondonWalkLondon

❓Have you ever walked the London Loop? Split into 25 sections, it might just be the thing for your walking bucket list in 2025. Check out the walks below or save for later! https://walks.gojauntly.com/collections/love-the-london-loop-85?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=user-share&utm_source=in-app

Waymarking improvements to Section 2 of the #LondonLoop have recently been completed. These include adding new posts and discs to make the route easier to follow, but also amending the route uphill a little onto slightly higher ground to avoid the worst of the mud.

So, on a cold, windy and wet Sunday, I thought I'd actually finish posting about the fabulous #LondonLoop @ldnloop-capring.bsky.social It's an (at least) 150 mile series of paths around the edges of London. It took me exactly a year, from August last year, starting in #Erith and heading to #Bexley

Love that the #LondonLoop made this list! #walklondon @ldnloop-capring.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/travel/2024/...

Introducing a brand new waymark post on the #LondonLoop - plus an old post with new discs as we re-route slightly through Petts Wood to slightly higher drier ground and incorporating the memorials. More to come!