Courses of Walks
From September 2023 to June 2024 WLWU are offering the following three short courses of eight walks, on a Tuesday or Thursday morning with a midway break to coincide with the half term school holidays.
All walks start at 11 am and last between 90 minutes and 2 hours, starting and finishing close to a public transport hub.
All courses cost a flat rate of £140 per person.
If you would like to attend just one or two of the walks, or would like to bring a friend, please do contact us as we may be able fit you in. There will be a charge of £20 for any individual walk.
To check on availability and enrol on any of these courses please click on this link ENROL HERE
Disrupting London
Tuesdays - January 16, 2024 - 12th March, 2024 - (Half term 13 Feb)
Thursdays - January 18 to March 14, 2024 - (Half term 15 Feb)
London is full of statues and memorials to our monarchs, governors the rich and the powerful. But many ordinary citizens from London and further afield, protested, marched, and sometimes rioted in the capital to bring about change or to vent their anger and opposition to the status quo. They have few monuments. This series of walks in January and February 2024 includes visits to Hyde Park, Brixton and the City and will trace the stories of the Peasants Revolt, demands for equal voting rights, and marches against fascism. The actions of Extinction Rebellion are not new, people have always been disrupting London.
TUESDAY SCHEDULE
January 16, 2024 East of the City
January 23, 2024 Cato Street
January 30, 2024 The Gordon Riots
February 6, 2024 Westminster
February 20, 2024 Hyde Park
February 27, 2024 Clerkenwell
March 5, 2024 City of London
March 12, 2024 Herne Hill to Brixton
THURSDAY SCHEDULE
January 18, 2024 East of the City
January 25, 2024 Cato Street
February 1, 2024 The Gordon Riots
February 8 2024 Westminster
February 22, 2024 Hyde Park
February 29, 2024 Clerkenwell
March 7, 2024 City of London
March 14, 2024 Herne Hill to Brixton
Parks and Gardens - Series Three
Tuesdays - April 30, 2024 - June 25, 2024 - (Half term 23 May)
Thursdays - May 2 to June 27, 2024 - (Half Term 20 May)
London today has 35,000 acres of public green space equivalent to 40 per cent of it surface area. Much of this open space consists of more than 3,000 parks and gardens. Offering grass to walk on, trees to identify and wildlife to observe. London Parks are also memorials to the people who created them, worked in them, and wrote about them: to kings and queens; landscape gardeners and plant hunters; diary -writers and dualists.
In this third series of walks in parks and gardens to take place in April to June 2024, WLWU have selected eight very different open spaces including four parks in north London and four in south London. Some are in suburban locations such as Ilford and others are in congested urban areas like Paddington. Bearing in mind that that there are thousands of open spaces in London to be enjoyed, WLWU walkers can look forward to many more future series of Parks and Gardens!
Walks include: Valentine's Park - Ilford, Paddington Recreation Ground, Gunnersbury Park, Vauxhall Park, Ruskin Park, Hornimans Gardens, Holland Park, Highgate Wood/Queens Wood