Kingston Bridge/Donkey Wood

At last the sun was shining and the skies were a brilliant blue to welcome 17 of us as we set out from Kingston on this changed walk Spirits were high if only from the relief of escaping from the prospect of the mud slides that seemed inevitable on the Haslemere walk
The changed proved very successful with the lovely experience of Bushey Park and later the Crane River Valley and Hounslow Heath all unknown to me. Some of the walk invoked the spirit of exploring distant jungles under attack as we negotiated swamp boards under the Heathrow flight path
And we still have the prospect of a walk in Haslemere Great

Date: 
Sunday, 16 February 2014 - 9:45am
Walk Leaders: 
David Broad and Margaret Miles
Meeting Point: 
Kingston Station by ticket barrier
Distance: 
10 miles linear
Maps: 
Explorer 161
Travel: 

Outward: there are trains from Clapham Junction, and from Richmond Station bus 65 from stop D.
Return: Hatton Cross Piccadilly Line

Route: 

m: Bushy Park Fulwell Park
pm: Crane Park and Hounslow Heath

Lunch: 

Beefeater Pub (sorry)
Premier Inn Twickenham East , Corner Sixth Cross/Staines RoadTwickenham, Middlesex TW2 5PE ‎

Notes: 

Changed walk details
Walk Sunday 16 Feb 2012 – Haslemere CANCELLED
Replaced by London LOOP Kingston to Donkey Wood

David Broad and I did a reccy in Haslemere today and concluded that in the current weather conditions the proposed walk is too muddy, too steep and slippery and there is a risk of road flooding. We have sadly decided that a London walk would be preferable and so we propose a section of the London LOOP which although not reccied we did do in 2008, and remember as being one of the good sections of the LOOP.
This walk is flat, mostly tracks though the Crane Park section could be muddy. As far as I can see there is no serious flooding on this route.