This page shows details of walkers who support the pledge to 'put London on the map', including celebrities, decision-makers and general members of the public who live in London and/or walk in London. Some of them have also told us about their favourite London walk.
Janet Street-Porter, writer and broadcaster, is putting London on the map
Janet's Favourite walk in London:
Clerkenwell Historic Trail: a two-mile walk around Islington, taking in the medieval priory of St John and its northern neighbour, the nunnery of St Mary.
Farringdon Road lies above the Old Fleet River and the nearby St John Street was once the ancient drovers' route down to Smithfield Market, on Clerkenwell's southern border.
Tom Franklin, Ramblers' CEO, is putting London on the map
Tom's favourite walk in London:
"My favourite London walk is through Sydenham Hill Wood, just next to Forest Hill. It’s a thin remaining sliver of the ancient Great North Wood which used to stretch across south London from Selhurst to Deptford. To get to it, I have to walk along the car-choked South Circular, and go through almost hidden entrance, quite close to the busy Sainsbury’s.
"Immediately – almost tardis-like – I enter into this expanse of countryside where the only reminder that I’m in London is the distant noise of traffic. In fact, people change when they enter that wood – they start saying ‘hello’ to each other for a start, which isn’t what Londoners tend to do! I walk in the wood at least once every season – seeing the changes in nature is so uplifting!"
The Rt Hon Frank Dobson MP
is putting London on the map
Grayson Perry, artist, is putting London on the map
Grayson's favourite London walk:
"My favorite walk is from my house in Finsbury, South Islington to The Southbank of the Thames. I go via Clerkenwell Green through St John's great tower - the oldest building in Islington - towards Smithfield meat market. Passing St John's, the art-world's favorite eatery, I then go through Smithfield past St Bartholemew's Church along the back of St Barts Hospital.
"Then comes Postman's Park and it's plaques to everyday heroes set up by the painter GF Watts, the statue of Roland Hill who set up the Penny Post through Paternoster square, with it's sudo histocial Prince Charlesian archictecture and the Elizabeth Fink sculpture. Finally I pass through the re-located Old London Gate that was originally in Fleet Street and I believe rescued from a field in Essex, around the front of some building called St Paul's Cathedral, then over the millennium bridge."
Stephen Walter, artist, is putting London on the map
Stephen's favourite walk in London:
"I traversed a huge amount of passage ways as I grew up in the North London Suburbs, both on foot and on my bicycle. They will always add a sense of adventure to a city, they are so important! Like the veins of an inquisitive city dweller, they give a place character.
"Favourite - Green routes around Hackney Wick and Bow Creek. One is left open that goes over some of the Olympic sight."
Walking Class Hero, blogger, is putting London on the map
WCH's favourite walk:
"Hither Green to Greenwich via Blackheath. From the gritty terraces of Corbett houses in Hither Green through the georgian gentility of Blackheath village to the panoramic splendour of riverside Greenwich. A pocket park, the river Quaggy, alleyways, a pagoda, the bleak heath, a former royal hunting ground and the meridian. Journey through time and space in south east London."
Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, supports the campaign.
This is what he said: "As part of my commitment to more local accountability, all London boroughs now have much greater freedom in how they spend the transport funding they receive from Transport for London (TfL). The benefits of this new approach enable boroughs to focus on the local transport issues important to their residents, whilst continuing to deliver London-wide transport priorities. This enhanced freedom over transport spending is already being used to deliver measures that encourage more people to walk. To support this process further, through TfL, I will encourage the inner London boroughs to produce definitive maps of rights of way within their boundaries where they feel it appropriate, using this local transport funding."
They have all pledged to put London on the map. Will you? Click here to make the pledge
Return to the Put London on the Map main campaign page here
