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New Years Eve Walk

Sudbury to Brentford, London. Sat 31 Dec 2016


 We crossed the Brent then took a footpath parallel with it to the west, which led past a sports centre - which had

 previously been the site of a sewage works - to a viaduct taking the Greenford Branch of the GWR over the Brent

 There were no trains today, though there is normally a half-hourly service on weekdays. We walked through a council estate

 to a long and rather boring footpath south to Drayton Bridge Rd, then on to Cuckoo Lane and

 Church Rd

 

 

 which does eventually lead to Hanworth Church, an early church designed by George Gilbert Scott , who later called it 'a mass of horrors'

 

 We walked on through Brent Lodge Park, where I ignored the pull of the tea room and headed towards the

 River Brent and the Wharncliffe Viaduct

 which we walked under, keeping by the Brent

 which eventually joined the Grand Union Canal at the Hanwell flight of locks

 We kept on by the canal, walking towards Brentford as the light faded away

 

 under the M4

 

 and the Piccadilly line

 and across the canal as we approached Brentford. It was by now much darker than this picture suggests

 

 

 

and pretty well pitch black by the time we reached the Great West Rd, just in time
to walk along and miss the train home by a few seconds. Half an hour's wait for the next.

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