1
Leave Clapham Junction Station by the exit by platforms 1&2 (Grant Road exit). Turn right and cross the road at the crossing.
2
Fork right on the footpath and continue, crossing Bramlands Close, until you reach Falcon Road. Be careful crossing the cycle path adjacent to the Falcon Road footpath. Turn left and continue until you reach the junction of Battersea Park Road and York Road. at the traffic lights.
3
Cross this busy road and continue ahead down Battersea High Street. Follow the High Street round to the right under the railway bridge, eventually reaching Battersea Square, the original heart of old Battersea. This is now a pleasant pedestrian area with a number of restaurants.
4
Keep to the right and cross the road into Battersea Church Road (ignoring Westbridge Road). When the road bends to the right, turn left down Vicarage Walk to the river. Turn right along the river, noting the houseboats moored to the left. Enter St Mary's church yard, passing in front of the church and carrying on beside the river. Note the old houses and houseboats on the Chelsea side of the river. Again watch out for cyclists on this broad stretch of what is now the Thames Path.
5
Cross Battersea Bridge Road and turn left across the bridge.
6
Cross the embankment /Cheyne Walk and turn right. (There are no pedestrian lights at this junction: look out for traffic turning right from Battersea Bridge). Cross Danvers Street and go down the steps into Ropers Garden. (For those unable to use the steps, the garden is accessible from the other side). Emerge from the garden on the far side, having admired the Epstein sculpture at the far end of the garden. Cross Old Church Street and, keeping the church on your left, continue along Cheyne Walk past the church. Note the statue to Sir Thomas More. The church has a pretty garden, which surrounds the surviving part of the original church. The garden has a memorial to Sir Hans Sloane and to Philip Miller, curator of the Chelsea Botanick Garden, now known as the Chelsea Physic Garden. Cross the street and turn left to walk through Chelsea Embankment Gardens, to reach Oakley Street, noting the statue of Thomas Carlyle. Cross over Oakley Street, noting Albert Bridge to the right, one of the nicest bridges in London. Bearing left and keeping the gardens on your right, continue along Cheyne Walk , noting on the left Cheyne Mews, the site of Henry VIII's manor house. Continue on, noting Blue Plaques to Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Swinburne, Ford Madox Brown and George Elliot.
7
Where Cheyne Walk meets Royal hospital Road, continue round to the left along Royal Hospital Road, passing first the back wall of Chelsea Physic Garden, and then the National Army Museum. Continue on and past the Royal Hospital to reach Lower Sloane Street.at the traffic lights Turn left to reach Sloane Square.
(Alternatively, take the left turn down Flood Street, then turn right into Robinson Street towards Christ Church. At the church, turn left, and follow the road round to the right into Christchurch Street, a pretty road of early Victorian cottages on the left. Cross over and turn down Tite Street to Royal Hospital Road and turn left to rejoin the walk).
8
Cross to the island to reach Sloane Street. Walk up the right hand side of Sloane Street past two pretty private gardens which form Cadogan Place Gardens to reach Knightsbridge Station.
