The Lea Valley Walk - A London 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.

'This is an updated edition of the book that first appeared in 2001. It has an additional section that provides you with an opportunity to take a 3 mile tour around the area where the Olympic Park is being developed ready for the Olympic Games in 2012. Are they going to be ready in time? Why not find out how the site is progressing.

The author describes the route in a north to south direction. At the end of each of the 17 chapters the author provides the reader with information about access and facilities on that particular route.'

(Strider / August 2007)

Starting from its source at Leagrave, this book covers the River Lee through until it joins the River Thames, offering alternative finishes at Bow Creek and Limehouse Basin. As usual with Cicerone, it has plenty of coloured photographs and the relevant sections of OS 1:50,000 map are included. Much of what is of interest to walkers can be of equal interest to touring canoeists.

The 2012 Olympic sites are covered, including at Broxbourne where the book reveals an £11,000,000 slalom site will be located between
the station and the river and it will be able to seat 12,000 spectators. A final chapter makes a circuit of the Olympic events which will be held
on land, in the process giving a tour of east London back rivers. ‘Go and see the area now so that you can compare it later’ said Ken
Livingstone. That would seem to apply as much to the waterways as to
the Olympic park.

(Canoeist, May 2008)