Leigh Hatts

Biography

Leigh Hatts has been walking the Thames towpath and exploring the river and Docklands since 1981 when he worked on the Thames Walk Feasibility Study which resulted the Countryside Commission persuading the government to designate the 180 mile route as a national trail.

In addition to writing three Thames books, Leigh Hatts was for a decade the author of the London Transport Walks Book series. He also devised the 20 mile Bournemouth Coast Path which now links the South West Coast Path to the Solent Way to create a 652 mile coast route from Minehead to Emsworth. In addition to a guide to this route he has written walks books featuring Dorset's coast and countryside and the New Forest.

The author worked as a reporter with the walkers' magazine TGO and as arts correspondent of the Catholic Herald. He is co-founder of Bankside Press and London's in SE1 listings magazine.

Titles by Leigh Hatts

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The Lea Valley Walk

Split into 20 stages this 50 mile walk is one of the finest and most varied walking routes around the capital, tracing the route of the River Lea from Leagrave, near Luton to Island Gardens at Greenwich where it joins the Thames Path. More >>

£10.00

The Thames Path

This guide leads the walker from the Thames Barrier in London to the source of the Thames 180 miles away. Opened as a national trail in 1996, the ‘towpath’ route leads past a string of London’s historic buildings and through tranquil countryside to the river’s source in Gloucestershire. More >>

£12.00

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