SEnine public park with its own Friends group.
Cross Rochester Way at the pelican crossing, turn right into Old Rochester Way and, after the shops, left along Brook Drive to Kidbrooke Park Road.
Sir John Morden Walk
Use the zebra crossing over Kidbrooke Park Road and into Sir John Morden Walk
The walk passes Morden College, a long-standing charity which has been providing residential care for over 300 years.
1806, it was intended for the upper middle class, the linked pairs of houses provided room for carriages, stables, servants’ quarters and large gardens. After 1914 several became hotels or boarding houses.
Severely damaged during World War II, they were restored between 1949 and 1958 and converted into flats.
After The Paragon, take the diagonal footpath for 800 yards across the Heath, passed the pond.
Blackheath
Crossed by the A2 which was originally created by the Romans and known
taken this magnificent Royal park to their hearts.
In the early 1600s, it was laid out in the French style with many trees planted, some of which remain today. James I gave the palace and the park to his wife, Queen Anne, who commissioned Inigo Jones to design her a special home which became known as the Queen's House.
Sir Christopher Wren was commissioned by Charles II to build The Royal Observatory in the 17th century.
For walkers not wishing to make the return journey on foot, the 286 provides
Founded by philanthropist Sir John Morden in 1695 as a home for 'poor Merchants, Morden College was built to a design sometimes attributed to Sir Christopher Wren, but largely carried out by Edward Strong, his master mason.
Follow the narrow path across Kidbrooke Grove and passed the college for 800 yards until it emerges onto Blackheath
The Paragon
Go straight on passed The Paragon on your left.
Designed by Michael Searles for John Cator, and built between 1795 and
as Watling Street. It was the home of the earliest golf club in the world and earliest rugby club. It has been the scene of demonstration, including the Peasants’ Revolt under Watt Tyler in 1381 and the suffragettes. Until 1866 it was mined for gravel. It is severed by the Prime Meridian line.
On the heath, turn right along Duke Humphrey Road, across Shooters Hill Road and through the gates into Greenwich Park
Greenwich Park
Since the land was inherited in 1427 by the Duke of Gloucester, brother of Henry V, generations of monarchs have
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a regular service and can be caught outside Greenwich University’s riverside campus.
For cyclists, either re-trace your tracks or head back across the heath into Blackheath Village and catch a train, two stops back to Eltham. .
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