If you have extra time a small diversion into Loxford park is a nice thing to do - looks unprepossessing from the road but has some nice specimen trees and a lake with cafe....

Elle

This walk included a short section along the Thames path at North Woolwich through Beckton and on to Barking....

Dominic Dragonetti

The route description suggests it’s to avoid steps, but there were plenty of steps in the Gardens....

Jane Taylor

There is a possible alternative which would go through central Barking and the Abbey grounds, with a short stretch along the Roding; but this option is serviceable and short....

Jane Taylor

It's not likely I'll walk it again but it's a solid 3/5 and it'll get you from A to B. But adding the riverside path also adds bigger nastier roads, and once I was there I could see the constant traffic on one of those roads from the Roding footbridge....

Daisy C

And as I was crossing the docks (on the Sir Steve Redgrave Bridge) a plane came in to land overhead at London City Airport, which is so close that the plane was very low indeed, quite a thrill!...

Daisy C

This route is disappointing in a few ways but primarily because it's unsafe at the Gallions Roundabout, it sends you around the south eastern sides which appears to have dropped kerbs and be usable and then up the Royal Docks Road, the pavement, then verge both peter out and there's no way out but back....

Daisy C

Like any possible route connecting East Ham and Barking this has to deal with a few big roads including crossing the North Circular so it is not the quietest but it is short and is has a small segment where it crosses the River Roding. It might be possible to re-route this and extend it slightly with more of a walk along the Roding to make a nicer walk. To cross the North Circular you take a bridge with sloping steps going up either side, the East Ham side is steeper....

Dan Barron