Clabri two

Verified Slow Way

Verified by 100.00% of reviewers

I walked this route from Clapham Junction to Brixton.

Outside Clapham junction itself it’s quite busy, yet you soon leave the bustle and take residential side streets that are both quiet and pleasant.

Before too long, you’re into Clapham common , a surprisingly large open green patch, albeit mostly grass, in London.

Then, after the vibrant Clapham North the walk continues along sleepy Victorian terrace residential streets until Brixton Road.

From Clapham Junction, you cross the road and turn right into Severus Row beside the Clapham Grand. Suddenly, you are in a quiet street lined with E-bikes for hire. Across St John Road’s you go into Beauchamp Road.
At a right hand bend, opposite a beautiful red-brick brick Welsh Chapel, there’s a tiny alleyway that looks very tempting (maybe less so after dark but you can take a longer route around it. Down it, you emerge into a curving road called Lavender Sweep. It’s just as Victorian lovely as it sounds, lined on both sides with tidy terrace houses. The ones on the left look slightly more affluent, with unusual Coadstone decorations over the doors.
You come out to busy Battersea Rise, with rows of shops, pharmacies, and restaurants. It’s certainly a place to pick up anything you might need. A short distance down here, you cross into Clapham Common.
I took a small diversion to look at the Holy Trinity Church with its lovely cupola rising through some mature trees. Then I walked on to the Temperance Fountain of 1884 with a life-size Victoria bronze statue of a pretty woman tenderly giving a tired, seated man a seemingly much-needed flask of water.
It’s then into Bromwell’s Road between a set of shops denoting you’ve arrived at a much more upmarket area. You follow a set of quiet terraced streets, with plenty of interesting Victorian detailing on houses.
You pass some beautiful city of London Almhouses on three sides of Gresham Green. It looks like a lovely place to live, and there’s the Duke of Edinburgh just opposite. A restored old sign reads “If it’s not Truman, it’s not beer."
You emerge in Brixton beside Bon Marché, opened in 1877 as London’s first supermarket and first steel framed building. World War II hero Violette Szabo worked here before becoming an SOE agent in France.
Interesting route, quiet and with lots to see.

A route for live music lovers from the Clapham Grand to the Brixton Academy via The Academy of Contemporary Music. There's Clapham Common to enjoy, shopping and street life to see. It stays away from the heavy traffic and keeps off the busiest pavements without being overly complicated or missing the local atmosphere. The parts I enjoyed least were when it briefly joined the busiest roads used by ClaBri 1. If Clapham Common had a little bit more shelter from the encircling A-roads then I might give it 5 stars.

Share your views about this route, give it a star rating, indicate whether it should be verified or not.

Include information that will be useful to others considering to walk or wheel it.

You can add up to 15 photos.