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A route which misses the steep hills of DulCat 1 and 2 but still has a few views and green spaces along the way. Mostly road walking on quiet residential streets, but cutting across two large parks, Peckham Rye and Ladywell Fields, for extra greenery. The whole area is on quite high land and so, although it lacks the hilltop panoramic vistas of DulCat 1 and 2, there are many points with brief views of London's skyline. The slopes are pretty gentle.
Break points: Many bus stops and places to shop or eat along the way but The Ivy House on Stuart Rd, Nunhead, looks good and is right in the middle. Crofton Park and Honor Oak stations are pretty close to the route (on different lines). Public toilets in Dulwich Library, Peckham Rye and Honor Oak Crematorium
A route which misses the steep hills of DulCat 1 and 2 but still has a few views and green spaces along the way. Mostly road walking on quiet residential streets, but cutting across two large parks, Peckham Rye and Ladywell Fields, for extra greenery. The whole area is on quite high land and so, although it lacks the hilltop panoramic vistas of DulCat 1 and 2, there are many points with brief views of London's skyline. The slopes are pretty gentle.
Break points: Many bus stops and places to shop or eat along the way but The Ivy House on Stuart Rd, Nunhead, looks good and is right in the middle. Crofton Park and Honor Oak stations are pretty close to the route (on different lines). Public toilets in Dulwich Library, Peckham Rye and Honor Oak Crematorium
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The steepest uphill gradient walking East 5.0% (1)
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The steepest camber gradient across the path 2.0% (1)
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Dulwich
Grid Ref
TQ3313374165
Lat / Lon
51.45083° / -0.08541°
Easting / Northing
533,133E / 174,165N
What3Words
backup.linen.locked
Catford
Grid Ref
TQ3728073527
Lat / Lon
51.44410° / -0.02602°
Easting / Northing
537,280E / 173,527N
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seat.wire.stuff
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Grid Ref | TQ3313374165 |
Lat / Lon | 51.45083° / -0.08541° |
Easting / Northing | 533,133E / 174,165N |
What3Words | backup.linen.locked |
Catford | |
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Grid Ref | TQ3728073527 |
Lat / Lon | 51.44410° / -0.02602° |
Easting / Northing | 537,280E / 173,527N |
What3Words | seat.wire.stuff |
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Mary Oz
08 Aug 2023It was a bit tricky to find the start of the way leaving Catford Station but then the route through Ladywell Fields was nice. After this there were lots of pleasant housing streets and short alleys, including a cycle track bridge over the railway. The route generally seemed accessible, with ramped or low kerbs.
Crossing Peckham Rye Park was very pleasant. There was a café here, with toilets, although it was a bit of a detour from the plotted route.
The route successfully achieved its aim of avoiding hills, but perversely I took a diversion off the route, past where my grandmother had lived and went up a hill that I remember from childhood, with a good view over the city skyline. We came back to the same point on the route in order to complete it.
We soon passed the rather grand Dulwich Library, and arrived at the nice Dulwich Village centre. I enjoyed this route.
Hugh Hudson
07 Aug 2023 (edited 09 Aug 2023)Walked from Catford to Dulwich. Enjoyable, quiet and quick, mixing quiet streets, pedestrian and cycle shortcuts and parks, and entirely paved.
From Catford station, we take the road underneath and to the left of Catford Road across the river Ravensbourne then follow the road left between the two railways. A bridge left under the rallway takes us back over the river into Ladywell Fields, where our surfaced path heads gently uphill. From Manwood Road our route is almost dead straight for quite a long way, but mixes quiet streets with pedestrian alleyways and a cycletrack bridge over the London to Brighton railway. Eventually we pass a school on the left and turn left, crossing the first of two roads called Peckham Rye and entering Peckham Rye Park.
Midway through the park, I caught up with Mary and we detoured off route in search of toilets, which we found in the cafe north of Strakers Road (the public tollets on the near side of the road were closed). The detour gave us a better look at the uncut grassy wildlife refuge on the edge of the common. We cross another Peckham Rye and continue through residential streets to reach Lordship Lane, where Dulwich library dominates the scene. More easy pavement walking takes us past the gates of Dulwich Park and into Dulwich Village.
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Daisy C
18 Feb 2023Another enjoyable Slow Way, walking from Dulwich Village to Catford via East Dulwich, Nunhead and Crofton Park. All the roads on this route were low traffic wise, and the parks were busy with families enjoying a sunny half-term break. Peckham Rye Park was new for me, more varied than it looks from the bus.
The route was as easy to navigate as I hoped. The way through both parks is very obvious, no funny business with small side paths. There are overlaps with (and signage for) several bike and walking routes which presumably means it will be fairly quiet at other times too. Some overlap with PecCat 1 and CatLew 2 as well.
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