Lea Valley Walk

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Lea Valley Walk Easy but fascinating waterside walking. The full distance may require up to a week to cover, but the Greater London section can provide one or two good full day walks, by starting just outside the boundary at Waltham Cross or Waltham Abbey and walking south to Bromley-by-Bow (20km/12.5ml), with many potential break points. The route uses the towpath of the Lee Navigation, once a busy commercial waterway and now much used by narrowboats and other recreational craft. Look out for cyclists, who are permitted to use the towpath with a licence. Let us now consider a mystery: the correct title of this route is Lea Valley Walk, yet the authority that promotes it is the Lee Valley Park, and the navigable waterway is the Lee Navigation. The official explanation is that, generally, Lea is applied to natural manifestations of the river, while Lee is used for those created by humans. Back to the walking! The Lea Valley Walk is a key route in the Strategic Network, crossed by some routes and giving others a piggy-back. The London Countryway makes its closest approach to Greater London along the Lea at Waltham Abbey, while Section 18 of the London Loop crosses at Enfield Lock. Picketts Lock is at one end of the Pymmes Brook Trail. Various sections of the towpath are used by Walk Back in Time, Section 13 of the Capital Ring, Ti

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