Nunhead to Crystal Palace going through 3 cemeteries with Walker Paul

We will meet at Nunhead Station at 10.45am, and at 11.00 am will go to a local café for a hot drink.

At 11.30 am we will then follow the Green chain to Crystal Palace walking distance 5.5 miles.

Meet up fee £5 payable on the day.

This walk is a very interesting walk with lots of history in each of the cemeteries we walk through. Our walk will take us through Nunhead Cemetery as shown below Perhaps the least known, but most attractive, of the great Victorian Cemeteries of London. Consecrated in 1840, it is one of the seven great Victorian cemeteries established in a ring around the outskirts of London.

It contains examples of the magnificent monuments erected in memory of the most eminent citizens of the day, which contrast sharply with the small, simple headstones marking common, or public, burials. It's formal avenue of towering limes and the Gothic gloom of the original Victorian planting gives way to paths which recall the country lanes of a bygone era We will then walk through Camberwell New Cemetery. Camberwell New Cemetery contains 198 Second World War burials, almost 80 of them forming a war graves plot in Squares 91 and 92, the rest scattered throughout the cemetery.

A screen wall commemorates almost 120 of these casualties (including those buried in the plot) whose graves could not be marked with individual headstones, together with a further 56 Second World War casualties whose remains were cremated in Camberwell (Honor Oak) Crematorium. The cemetery also contains one First World War burial, and two non-war service graves From there we will make our way over One Tree Hill where the views are amazing, From there we will make our way in to Camberwell Old Cemetery.

This cemetery contains 291 First World War burials. The war graves plot is in the north-east corner of the cemetery and contains two screen walls. One commemorates almost 160 casualties buried in the plot, the other bears the names of those buried in the remaining war graves scattered throughout the cemetery that could not be individually marked. The war graves plot also contains a group of special memorials to the 14 casualties of the Second World War buried in the cemetery. We will then make our way to Horniman Gardens, where we will have lunch or bring our own

After lunch we will carry on walking the Green Chain, through Wells Park, and end up at the Cafe in Crystal Palace Park where we will end our walk.. With Crystal Palace Station about 5 min walk away.

If you have a knee problem or walk slow this walk is definitely not for you.

COV'D 19 regulations will apply so please bring along a mask, and hand sanitiser with you.

Due to the small numbers I am allowed, please advise me at least 48 hrs before, so some one else can take your place.

Failure to do so may result in when you sign up for another of my walks, that you will be moved to not going.