Just a short walk from our flat and it felt like we were in the middle of the countryside. How refreshing to have trees and water and green space in the middle of London.
Although there was still an industrial estate to our right. This bakery smelled delicious, though, and had wind turbines generating some power.
You can't really see it properly but through these trees is our lovely City Farm which grows vegetables, has lots of farmyard animals and gives riding lessons.
This is Morden Hall Park. I expected it to be immaculately preened, but actually most of it is wetlands which was lovely.
In the wetlands the river splits into several different streams, this being the main one.
More wetlands.
You can just about see Morden Hall itself through the trees.
Does anyone know what these arches might be for? They're very pretty but I can't really see what their purpose might be as the stone is far too thin to be a bridge.
Once you pass Morden Hall the park does become much more managed, but it's still very pretty , with lots of white bridges as you can see in the background.
Out of Morden Hall Park and into the next park which might possibly be called Ravenscroft Park, I can't quite remember. It was full of mill streams ...
... and mill stones.
There were little people feeding ducks and swans and geese.
This lovely white wooden house had water on several sides. I'd like to live there.
Further along, the opposite side of the river became increasingly industrial and less beautiful.
But even when we'd left teh river, we could still see trees and fields and grass and other un-London-y things. We'll gradually complete the whole thing, watch this space.
Sunday, February 22, 2009 | |
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lovely photos!
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