I think this video shows again how great the concept of public footpaths is, at least to my foreign eyes. The little paths between houses or across fields (or over the grounds of astronomical observatories) are all so nice.
At long last, John, you have returned to the Loop and completed section 5, which in my view is the best section of all. We walked it in early Spring with leafless woods and the drumming of woodpeckers, so it is good to see it so luxuriant, the meadows teeming with flowers. Sections 2 and 3 come fairly close in quality also, so keep going. We would like to see them in Summer too.
London Loop walks? Spread 'em out. One of the great things about your videos is that you never know what to expect (in a good way) from week to week. And it's nice when the London Loop pops up now and again.
Hi John, really enjoyed the video. I used to live in this area and have many happy memories of spending my teenage years with my mates in Happy Valley, Kenley and Riddlesdown. That was 30 years ago, but I often dream and look back with a wistful nostalgia for days gone by, seemingly endless sunny days and the exuberance of youth. Love the London Loop walks, I think the next one will also be very scenic. Many thanks - David in Essex.
Thanks for sharing. Makes me want to return to London! I've walked those paths many times over the years. My heart is now aching to return! One of my blessings is have had a friendship with 2, late, Spitfire pilots who flew out of RAF Kenley during the war. Also a dear, late, cousin whose home was damaged during the Dornier attack on 18 Aug 40. Thankfully she, and the rest of the family, were unscathed!
I love the London Loop so much, mostly because it takes you to places you'd never go otherwise and they are usually really nice. I finished it two weeks ago. I think you'll love sections 2 and 3 just as much as this one, John, when you get around to them. I'd recommend doing them both together and making sure the walk goes into the evening. I felt a bit bereft after finishing so I started the Capital Ring the next day lol
Always makes me laugh seeing someone unlike a video as if there a paid RUclips critic 😂 this is actually my first time watching your footage & im loving it! I’m almost 29 & live a train ride away from kings cross, never in my life did I know London had so much nature, really interesting video & so relaxing to watch :)
Lovely walk! (Tho' I would have caved in and stopped at the Fox for a pint of real ale!). Btw, we have stinging nettle in the U.S. also, alas! Glad to say it seems you are healing up well.
So good to see you getting Loopy again John . What a great walk in a truly beautiful location enhanced by the gorgeous weather. You wouldn’t believe it’s in London . 😊👍
Excellent walk, John. I loved the beginning by Farthing Downs. I've walked here. Somewhere close by an information board tells you that DH Lawrence walked here with a friend apparently. This was when he was a teacher in Croydon
Cheers John for another great video. It really made my day. It is great to relax and wind down in the evening with a beer and watching your video. We are indeed blessed to have such a beautiful amount of green space around London. Bob.
Thank you so much for this beautiful walk, having grown up in London I must say I have not heard of some of the places you walked through today. I did enjoy seeing this as I now live in Australia.
Yes your right John Rogers what a stunning walk indeed did you find out what observatory it was amazing chalk cliffs fantastic video thanks for sharing John .
The LL is easily one of my fav walks, and when you head out SE towards Bromley/Kent area I promise it gets better and it’s really rural around the Keston/Farnborough area. I used a TFL guide to navigate the loop and it’s doable. But a OS/AZ map is recommended. You can do the LL walk continuously or you normally like to mix it up a bit. All the best, see you on the next one.
Amazing views - and so close to London. The wisdom of our ancestors to set aside a green belt around London. And as for the Roman Legions marching around Coulsden, it doesn't matter if it's true, but it ought to be true - so I'll believe it.
More of London Loop please John. I’d love to do it one day but doubt I’d be able to sniff out my way without signage. Be great to see you and Feargal Sharkey teamed up exchanging knowledge and stories. Thank you
John, I just happened to come across your videos about the London loop today, and I really have enjoyed them. I did not know about the London loop, but will definitely learn more about it before returning to England. I have friends in Cockfosters and we’ve taken lovely walks in Trent Park but I don’t think any of us knew about the loop even though it goes through the park. The thought of enjoying the great city by journeying it’s green belt is very intriguing to me. My last trip in early 2020 I enjoyed walks in the Carlisle area and am hoping to get back to the Ribblehead viaduct. But now I have more London walks to do as well. Thanks so much for sharing. I look forward to more. And yes, I agree the romance of the journey is what truly inspires…. No matter the path or it’s adherence to someone else’s notion of direction. Keep up the great work.
Good to to see you in my manor John! 😃 I look out through my window to Kenley Common whilst watching your videos, very hilly here and keeps us fit. Really good connections to London where I also do a lot of walking. Cheers Nigel
Hey John. I wonder if Tithepit is a shortening of 'To the Pit', the the road taking you to the pit. Or some agricultural meaning in Tithe. I find this fascinating - how history is embedded in the language we use but forgotten. Dan and Jessie
Very enjoyable and informative ,just love the Sunday walks sets me up for the next week on my own 1.5 mile walk to work in Colchester through the Roman gate.Thanks John as always .
Great Video John. Spent 8 years there and my family still live in Old Coulsdon, and most of those paths you trod I've ran many miles up and down them! Can feel like another world while still being in London!
Well thank you John. I just sat down and made the wife watch one of your walks for the first time . As she always says to me on a Sunday. Is it time for John yet” And it has inspired us both to walk the London loop next yr . Thanks for taking us on yet another walk 👍🏻
Great company as ever - certainly inspires me to take up the London Loop ( once I have finished doing the Thames Path) - such wonderful unspoilt countryside - amazing. More Loop walks please.
Ditto. Did the Thames Walk some years back - fabulous. Now need to do this. The video is defo a revelation. So much more green space than one would think even when you live in London or Greater London.
I was going to suggest a Spike Milligan character of the permanently lost hiker: "Where are you?" "I'm not entirely sure..." "Where are you going?" "Over there somewhere..." I see Gary in the comments beat me to it :-) Glorious as ever, put a smile on my face!
That is such a beautiful trail! I love the London Loop! Our Bay Area Ridge Trail (San Francisco) is near completion, but there are a few sections that are not done. Following you on the different sections is such a fun journey. We have stinging nettles in No America as well. "Fun"! LOL
A new walk for you John, it goes through Waltham Abbey... The Greenwich Meridian Trail is a long-distance walk that follows the line of the Prime Meridian.
Great Walk John , hopefully I'm starting the London loop with my son in the School holidays, you looked and sounded very tired around the 25min mark of the video and a well deserved pint after I trust, keep up the good work
Fantastic John, I was looking forward to this section of your loop walk. I live about 200 yards away from where you ended your walk in Hamsey Green (in Warlingham), and it was great fun walking the entire section "with you" so to speak. I think that you did miss Devil's Den because you were a bit misled by those missing signs, it's a small section of woods which you can enter closer to the motor gate at the other end of the road that goes through Farthing Downs. No matter though, that whole section including Happy Valley is simply sublime. Next time you are in the area, take some time to visit the Chaldon Church - it contains some well-preserved murals from the Viking era. I also have a vague recollection of it being mentioned obliquely in a Ben Aaronovitch "Rivers" novel as being part of a mystic triangle of some sort, which is neat (even if I am misremembering it). What a cracking video this one is, even if I am super-biased being from the area. Thank you very much indeed!
Just what I needed just a beautiful day and vista... Oh and the question you put at the end of the walk, Answer: intermittently, at your leisure, all in goode time. when you have completed that, then may I suggest the Australian Bicentennial Trail (bicentennial national trail map pdf) May take you a couple of weeks but would give your good wife a chance to catchup with the Rellies..! thanks again John
This took me right back to doing this section of the LOOP the other way round, the observatory and RAF base stick in my memory. John, you are so right that there is a lot of open countryside close to London and people really need to get out there and enjoy it. I've told anyone who's asked me about the LOOP and the Capital Ring that walking either of the walks will change the way they feel about London. There are perceptions about what Croydon and Essex are like, which change when you do this section and go through Epping Forest. Final thought - why do people steal the disks marking walks?
Loved this walk! I’d love to see more soon. I’m with you on the romance of the Roman Road. That particular track looked very “Roman road-ish” to my eye. 😉 thank you for all the great walks!
If you want to get to maldon your better off getting off at Witham station and getting the bus a lot closer. Or if over a weekend just give me shout and I’ll give you a lift as I live between the both of them.
John, please continue your London Loop perambulations. I know the great city is your primary focus. And I love those, mate! But it is so wonderful to see the green and the blue sky. The world needs more meditative and "earthy things".
HELLO JOHN WHAT A MAJESTIC WALK ON THE LONDON LOOP WITH SOME INCREDIBLE SIGHTS INCLUDING CROYDON TOO. . ALSO JUST TO LET YOU KNOW THAT I SPOKE TO MY SAX PLAYER ADRIAN NORTHOVER HE KNEW OF YOUR GOOD FRIEND IAN SIN CLAIRE WHOM I UNDERSTAND YOU DID A WALK WITH. SO ONCE AGAIN I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU ON YOUR NEXT WALK WHEREVER THAT MAYBE.
those beautiful words you read out from the sign John, reminded me very much of H E Bate’s writing. Perhaps you should check it out. I have read most of H E Bates’s works and one of the most famous is of course Love for Lydia also he wrote The Darling Buds of May. Would be good to know if it was indeed H E Bates who penned the worda on that sign ? regards Sue (swansea)
That’s not much help when you find the Pointers are missing from the posts. Lovely woodland though. Would never believe you were so close to London. Great walk. Full of interest John
John, your videos are amazing, calming and interesting. I like walking too and you've inspired me to go further afield and to explore new areas of London. Do you do group walks?
I think this video shows again how great the concept of public footpaths is, at least to my foreign eyes. The little paths between houses or across fields (or over the grounds of astronomical observatories) are all so nice.
That’s a great sentiment Harry
in memory of my dad who took me on many a walk on riddles down and the north downs many years ago
More London Loop please. I just loved this walk. Thanks so much John.
I did this walk many times when I lived in London. Ended up at The Fox in Old Coulsdon for a meal and a couple of pints of ale. Happy Days!
At long last, John, you have returned to the Loop and completed section 5, which in my view is the best section of all. We walked it in early Spring with leafless woods and the drumming of woodpeckers, so it is good to see it so luxuriant, the meadows teeming with flowers. Sections 2 and 3 come fairly close in quality also, so keep going. We would like to see them in Summer too.
London Loop walks? Spread 'em out. One of the great things about your videos is that you never know what to expect (in a good way) from week to week. And it's nice when the London Loop pops up now and again.
Sunday is now complete. Will look forward to watching this later.
Really lovely walk, I was so surprised to see such countryside Within London. I'd really love to see more of this walk please 🙏🏻😊
yup.. see you on the next walk...lovely walk out in the country. thanks a lot John
Hi John, really enjoyed the video. I used to live in this area and have many happy memories of spending my teenage years with my mates in Happy Valley, Kenley and Riddlesdown. That was 30 years ago, but I often dream and look back with a wistful nostalgia for days gone by, seemingly endless sunny days and the exuberance of youth. Love the London Loop walks, I think the next one will also be very scenic. Many thanks - David in Essex.
Fantastic walk. Can't wait for the next installment of the London Loop.
Thank you John what a lovely walk xxx
Thanks for sharing. Makes me want to return to London! I've walked those paths many times over the years. My heart is now aching to return! One of my blessings is have had a friendship with 2, late, Spitfire pilots who flew out of RAF Kenley during the war. Also a dear, late, cousin whose home was damaged during the Dornier attack on 18 Aug 40. Thankfully she, and the rest of the family, were unscathed!
I love the London Loop so much, mostly because it takes you to places you'd never go otherwise and they are usually really nice. I finished it two weeks ago. I think you'll love sections 2 and 3 just as much as this one, John, when you get around to them. I'd recommend doing them both together and making sure the walk goes into the evening. I felt a bit bereft after finishing so I started the Capital Ring the next day lol
I've done this walk myself and it's beautiful! Section 5 and 2 were by far my favourites
Always makes me laugh seeing someone unlike a video as if there a paid RUclips critic 😂 this is actually my first time watching your footage & im loving it! I’m almost 29 & live a train ride away from kings cross, never in my life did I know London had so much nature, really interesting video & so relaxing to watch :)
Lovely walk! (Tho' I would have caved in and stopped at the Fox for a pint of real ale!). Btw, we have stinging nettle in the U.S. also, alas! Glad to say it seems you are healing up well.
Another discovery for me thanks John. Your descriptive language you say is second to none.
Love the videos and reading the comments. Thank you for bringing the wide open spaces to our lounge this evening.
The 'loop' in London loop stands for 'london outer orbital path'
London London Outer Orbital Path?
or it stands for, loop, because, it's a loop.
Delightful, bucolic countryside, I can't believe it's London! I look forward to more in future.
So good to see you getting Loopy again John . What a great walk in a truly beautiful location enhanced by the gorgeous weather. You wouldn’t believe it’s in London . 😊👍
The scenery was breath-taking, like watching an episode of The Detectorists! Thanks John.
Excellent walk, John. I loved the beginning by Farthing Downs. I've walked here. Somewhere close by an information board tells you that DH Lawrence walked here with a friend apparently. This was when he was a teacher in Croydon
What a great walk, beautiful scenery & I heard the Roman sandals too !!
Thanks for sharing the beautiful countryside .
My pleasure
Cheers John for another great video. It really made my day. It is great to relax and wind down in the evening with a beer and watching your video. We are indeed blessed to have such a beautiful amount of green space around London. Bob.
We have stinging nettles in Australia - along with several hundred other invasive plant species.
Thank you so much for this beautiful walk, having grown up in London I must say I have not heard of some of the places you walked through today. I did enjoy seeing this as I now live in Australia.
Great walk again,thankyou. Nice to see the fast disappearing token on the post box !
Another great walk thank you, this was my first view of the London Loop, please keep them coming.
I enjoyed it so much that I watched it again.
So enjoy your walks, and look forward to Sunday posts. Thanks for taking us along!
Fantastic John ,beautiful London beautiful nature .....
Yes your right John Rogers what a stunning walk indeed did you find out what observatory it was amazing chalk cliffs fantastic video thanks for sharing John .
The LL is easily one of my fav walks, and when you head out SE towards Bromley/Kent area I promise it gets better and it’s really rural around the Keston/Farnborough area.
I used a TFL guide to navigate the loop and it’s doable. But a OS/AZ map is recommended.
You can do the LL walk continuously or you normally like to mix it up a bit. All the best, see you on the next one.
Amazing views - and so close to London. The wisdom of our ancestors to set aside a green belt around London. And as for the Roman Legions marching around Coulsden, it doesn't matter if it's true, but it ought to be true - so I'll believe it.
A super video John. (I think that you might be right about Italy!).
More of London Loop please John. I’d love to do it one day but doubt I’d be able to sniff out my way without signage. Be great to see you and Feargal Sharkey teamed up exchanging knowledge and stories. Thank you
Thanks yet again John. I walked around this area some years ago so it is a delight to revisit it with you.
Cheers John. You recommended walking the London loop a couple of weeks ago so I've made a start. Walked section 2 today!
John, I just happened to come across your videos about the London loop today, and I really have enjoyed them. I did not know about the London loop, but will definitely learn more about it before returning to England. I have friends in Cockfosters and we’ve taken lovely walks in Trent Park but I don’t think any of us knew about the loop even though it goes through the park. The thought of enjoying the great city by journeying it’s green belt is very intriguing to me. My last trip in early 2020 I enjoyed walks in the Carlisle area and am hoping to get back to the Ribblehead viaduct. But now I have more London walks to do as well. Thanks so much for sharing. I look forward to more. And yes, I agree the romance of the journey is what truly inspires…. No matter the path or it’s adherence to someone else’s notion of direction. Keep up the great work.
Good to to see you in my manor John! 😃
I look out through my window to Kenley Common whilst watching your videos, very hilly here and keeps us fit. Really good connections to London where I also do a lot of walking.
Cheers Nigel
Had a bit of a bad week but time to relax and chill watching another great video thanks John 👍 I hope you are doing well
Thank you John, doing the loop backwards, you rebel!
Great to see you back on the ‘Loop,’ John. Damn fine walk! ❤️
Hey John. I wonder if Tithepit is a shortening of 'To the Pit', the the road taking you to the pit. Or some agricultural meaning in Tithe. I find this fascinating - how history is embedded in the language we use but forgotten. Dan and Jessie
I really like your vidoes, John, many thanks. Nice weather btw!
More peripatetic revelations. These London hinterlands are fascinating, John. Ankle injury? Pah! Loved it, as usual.🇯🇪
Looked a beautiful day for it John.
Another great walk, thanks John, do hope you didn't have too much hassle getting back home 🤗💙
Many thanks- it was actually not a bad journey home in the end
Very enjoyable and informative ,just love the Sunday walks sets me up for the next week on my own 1.5 mile walk to work in Colchester through the Roman gate.Thanks John as always .
Great Video John. Spent 8 years there and my family still live in Old Coulsdon, and most of those paths you trod I've ran many miles up and down them! Can feel like another world while still being in London!
I have never seen such a green episode. So dreamy. Unknown territory for me.
I miss the chalk land of my childhood..
It was a real surprise Rob - I wonder what the next section holds
Well thank you John. I just sat down and made the wife watch one of your walks for the first time . As she always says to me on a Sunday. Is it time for John yet”
And it has inspired us both to walk the London loop next yr . Thanks for taking us on yet another walk 👍🏻
That’s brilliant Ian thanks for passing that on
@@JohnRogersWalks always a pleasure. Your an inspiration.
Great company as ever - certainly inspires me to take up the London Loop ( once I have finished doing the Thames Path) - such wonderful unspoilt countryside - amazing. More Loop walks please.
Ditto.
Did the Thames Walk some years back - fabulous. Now need to do this. The video is defo a revelation. So much more green space than one would think even when you live in London or Greater London.
This is a lovely walk John. Thanks for sharing, I’m inspired to do it myself.
Thanks Simon - you really won’t regret it if you can get out on the Loop
keep the the romance, John. We need it. Thanks.
More my neck of the woods (excuse the pun) and where my dad came from. I absolutely have to do this part of the loop, will be ideal with the dogs 👍🏻
I was going to suggest a Spike Milligan character of the permanently lost hiker:
"Where are you?"
"I'm not entirely sure..."
"Where are you going?"
"Over there somewhere..."
I see Gary in the comments beat me to it :-) Glorious as ever, put a smile on my face!
That is such a beautiful trail! I love the London Loop! Our Bay Area Ridge Trail (San Francisco) is near completion, but there are a few sections that are not done. Following you on the different sections is such a fun journey. We have stinging nettles in No America as well. "Fun"! LOL
Tea and hobnob at the ready. Bring it on.
A splendid bucolic prologue to my week, sir! Good stuff as ever...
A new walk for you John, it goes through Waltham Abbey...
The Greenwich Meridian Trail is a long-distance walk that follows the line of the Prime Meridian.
Thankyou John!
Gauranga
Great Walk John , hopefully I'm starting the London loop with my son in the School holidays, you looked and sounded very tired around the 25min mark of the video and a well deserved pint after I trust, keep up the good work
Excellent vid john
I did Harmonthsworth last weekend.
Carshalton yesterday and on routemaster london Vents tour today
Fantastic Stephen
Great way to spend a Sunday evening, another great episode.
Cheers S-Walking
another brilliant video,,you are the best public information service regarding "what people can dicover for them selves".thank you.
Many thanks Stuart - very kind of you
Fantastic John, I was looking forward to this section of your loop walk. I live about 200 yards away from where you ended your walk in Hamsey Green (in Warlingham), and it was great fun walking the entire section "with you" so to speak. I think that you did miss Devil's Den because you were a bit misled by those missing signs, it's a small section of woods which you can enter closer to the motor gate at the other end of the road that goes through Farthing Downs. No matter though, that whole section including Happy Valley is simply sublime. Next time you are in the area, take some time to visit the Chaldon Church - it contains some well-preserved murals from the Viking era. I also have a vague recollection of it being mentioned obliquely in a Ben Aaronovitch "Rivers" novel as being part of a mystic triangle of some sort, which is neat (even if I am misremembering it). What a cracking video this one is, even if I am super-biased being from the area. Thank you very much indeed!
The Roman Road was the track with the bridge over the railway
And the Victorian railway viaduct you filmed a train going over!
Hi John- As usual very enjoyable and I was not aware of the London Loop and maybe an idea for when I finish the saxon Sore Way.
Cheers Kev
Great walk. More loop please
Brilliant. John at his best.
Thanks John !!!
Many thanks Little Acorns
Absolutely beautiful. Thank you for sharing John.
Cheers Edgar
I thoroughly enjoyed that, personally I would like you to carry on with that sequence but with breaks every now and again
Just what I needed just a beautiful day and vista... Oh and the question you put at the end of the walk, Answer: intermittently, at your leisure, all in goode time.
when you have completed that, then may I suggest the Australian Bicentennial Trail (bicentennial national trail map pdf) May take you a couple of weeks but would give your good wife a chance to catchup with the Rellies..! thanks again John
Brilliant John, 👍
This took me right back to doing this section of the LOOP the other way round, the observatory and RAF base stick in my memory. John, you are so right that there is a lot of open countryside close to London and people really need to get out there and enjoy it. I've told anyone who's asked me about the LOOP and the Capital Ring that walking either of the walks will change the way they feel about London. There are perceptions about what Croydon and Essex are like, which change when you do this section and go through Epping Forest. Final thought - why do people steal the disks marking walks?
Loved this walk! I’d love to see more soon. I’m with you on the romance of the Roman Road. That particular track looked very “Roman road-ish” to my eye. 😉 thank you for all the great walks!
Thanks April- I think this is one of those walks that will stay with me for a while
A great video I expected Croydon to be just masses of houses but it too has decent green spaces
If you want to get to maldon your better off getting off at Witham station and getting the bus a lot closer.
Or if over a weekend just give me shout and I’ll give you a lift as I live between the both of them.
London is very interesting city.
I love your walks john, nice to have the info that goes with them so i will see you on the next one, wherever it may be .
Thanks Chris
Some glorious English countryside you captured there.
skylarks alive and well in Suffolk. First time I have ever heard or seen since moving across the border into Suffolk in April
Amazing walk, very inspiring. Glad the ankle looks much improved! All the best.
Thanks Michael
Great to see you back on the London loop John,great walk as always, looked very hilly.
See you on the next one👍🏼
Cheers James
Quite bizarre … cycling home thinking it would be cool to see you back on the London loop and here it is ! Fabulous section and lovely film …. Nice 👍😊
Very glad you enjoyed it
John under a glorious sun!
John, please continue your London Loop perambulations.
I know the great city is your primary focus. And I love those, mate!
But it is so wonderful to see the green and the blue sky.
The world needs more meditative and "earthy
things".
Thanks William I will indeed aim to get back out on the Loop as soon as possible
That was beautiful John. Thanks.
Many thanks
Love those words don’t have a map lol how many times will he have scenic detour,thanks for another cracking ramble round
London
Thanks David
You sound like that Spike Milligan song " I'm Walking Backwards for Christmas", are you filming backwards, and then playing it forward as well?
Love a bit of Spike Milligan (a South London man)
HELLO JOHN WHAT A MAJESTIC WALK ON THE LONDON LOOP WITH SOME INCREDIBLE SIGHTS INCLUDING CROYDON TOO. . ALSO JUST TO LET YOU KNOW THAT I SPOKE TO MY SAX PLAYER ADRIAN NORTHOVER HE KNEW OF YOUR GOOD FRIEND IAN SIN CLAIRE WHOM I UNDERSTAND YOU DID A WALK WITH. SO ONCE AGAIN I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU ON YOUR NEXT WALK WHEREVER THAT MAYBE.
those beautiful words you read out from the sign John, reminded me very much of H E Bate’s writing. Perhaps you should check it out. I have read most of H E Bates’s works and one of the most famous is of course Love for Lydia also he wrote The Darling Buds of May. Would be good to know if it was indeed H E Bates who penned the worda on that sign ? regards Sue (swansea)
That’s not much help when you find the Pointers are missing from the posts. Lovely woodland though. Would never believe you were so close to London. Great walk. Full of interest John
Thanks, John! A beautiful walk. Richard from Reno
Thanks Richard
John, your videos are amazing, calming and interesting. I like walking too and you've inspired me to go further afield and to explore new areas of London. Do you do group walks?
Thanks John, enjoyed the walk.. Cheers mate.
Cheers Ralph