Route: The Jubilee Walkway
Area: Central London
Date of walk: 8th November 2016
Walkers: Andrew and Gilly
Distance: 9.4 miles
Weather: Sunny at first, then light cloud
The Jubilee Walkway route was opened in 1977 and visits some of London’s most iconic landmarks. The walk is 15 miles long and is divided into five sections. Today we were following the first of those sections – ‘The Western Loop‘
With Paul Simon songs still echoing around in our heads after last night’s show we stepped off the tube at Leicester Square and walked past the National Gallery, which unfortunately hadn’t yet opened for the day. We then walked across Trafalgar Square, along The Mall, around Parliament Square and past the Houses of Parliament, crossing the River Thames via Lambeth Bridge. As with yesterday’s walk, navigation was made easy by discs in the pavement featuring the cross of a crown pointing in the direction of travel
On reaching the South Bank we followed the riverbank path past the brutalist architecture of the Southbank Centre and the National Theatre which I fail to appreciate, sorry to say. We arrived at the excellent Tate Modern and spent a very worthwhile couple of hours before crossing over the Millennium Bridge with its superb views of St Paul’s Cathedral along the way. From there we walked back to the start via Lincoln’s Inn and Covent Garden
It was a great walk, and I hope we’ll be back one day to complete the rest of the Jubilee Walkway
Click on the icon below for the route map (subscribers to OS Maps can view detailed maps of the route, visualise it in aerial 3D, and download the GPX file. Non-subscribers will see a base map)
Scroll down – or click on any photo to enlarge it and you can then view as a slideshow
![St Pancras Station St Pancras Station](https://www.andrewswalks.co.uk/wp-content/gallery/jubilee/Jubilee-1.jpg)
View of St Pancras Station from the 12th floor of the Pullman Hotel as we set off to catch the tube to Leicester Square
![Jubilee Walkway, Westminster Abbey Jubilee Walkway, Westminster Abbey](https://www.andrewswalks.co.uk/wp-content/gallery/jubilee/Jubilee-15.jpg)
The Field of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey is being prepared with countless thousands of memorials
![Jubilee Walkway, Tate modern Jubilee Walkway, Tate modern](https://www.andrewswalks.co.uk/wp-content/gallery/jubilee/Jubilee-38.jpg)
We visited the Louise Bourgeois exhibition - an interesting experience, though not for those of a sensitive disposition