Description
Hounslow to Ealing Broadway via Osterley. A mix of shops, residential, and green walking, including a surprisingly rural landscape at Osterley Park. Quite direct and with reasonable refreshment opportunities. No long flights of steps, but there are some tight paths and gates, and a railway footpath crossing with a couple of wooden steps each side.
You'll have at least one moment on this walk when you forget you are in London!
Hounslow to Ealing Broadway via Osterley. A mix of shops, residential, and green walking, including a surprisingly rural landscape at Osterley Park. Quite direct and with reasonable refreshment opportunities. No long flights of steps, but there are some tight paths and gates, and a railway footpath crossing with a couple of wooden steps each side.
You'll have at least one moment on this walk when you forget you are in London!
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Geography information system (GIS) data
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Maximum elevation
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Start and end points
Hounslow
Grid Ref
TQ1351675951
Lat / Lon
51.47115° / -0.36702°
Easting / Northing
513,516E / 175,951N
What3Words
hint.moral.boil
Ealing Broadway
Grid Ref
TQ1790780911
Lat / Lon
51.51483° / -0.30218°
Easting / Northing
517,907E / 180,911N
What3Words
toned.excuse.steep
Hounslow | |
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Grid Ref | TQ1351675951 |
Lat / Lon | 51.47115° / -0.36702° |
Easting / Northing | 513,516E / 175,951N |
What3Words | hint.moral.boil |
Ealing Broadway | |
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Grid Ref | TQ1790780911 |
Lat / Lon | 51.51483° / -0.30218° |
Easting / Northing | 517,907E / 180,911N |
What3Words | toned.excuse.steep |
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reviews
Derick Rethans
17 Dec 2022I walked this on a freezy winter afternoon, from Hounslow to Ealing. The ground in parks was frozen.
It's a fairly residential route, but the sections through Osterley Park were lovely (and deserted). My least favourite section was along Windmill Lane, marking this route down to a 4 star. It is easy going, and otherwise a good route. It was safe, and fairly direct. Would walk again!.
Jamiekirk
23 Oct 2021Excellent route, with a good combination of rural and urban walking. Direct, easy to navigate, and plenty of food and drink options at either end of the walk. One slightly dull section of pavement walking along Windmill Lane in the middle, but either side of that a thoroughly enjoyable walk.
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Jane Taylor
30 Sep 2021Excellent route that passes through some of the best green spaces in west London: Osterley Park and Warren Farm Nature Reserve.
There's some pavement walking of course, mostly through residential streets, with a short stretch through an industrial estate (watch out for HGV drivers); but as well as Osterley Park and Warren Farm, there's Brent River Park, Elthorne Park and Walpole Park to ensure no shortage of greenery.
I set off from Ealing Broadway and walked through a mix of parks and residential streets as far as the River Brent.
I enjoyed a cup of tea at the Magic Cafe, on Trumpers Way, and also took a detour to look at the Long Wood nature reserve, which is tucked up by the M4.
Osterley Park is like a country estate, fields, cows, crops - it doesn't feel like London at all. But then here is the Piccadilly line and before long I'm arriving in Hounslow. I don't think I'd ever get tired of walking this route.
Accessibility
No flights of stairs, but there is a railway crossing that involves a step up to the track and down the other side (see pic), and some narrow gates.
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