{"id":2452,"date":"2010-10-05T10:44:50","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T09:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=2452"},"modified":"2010-10-05T10:44:50","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T09:44:50","slug":"walking-the-london-loop-hatton-cross-to-kingston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/walking-the-london-loop-hatton-cross-to-kingston\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking the London Loop &#8211; Hatton Cross to Kingston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/walks\/images\/hatton-cross-bushey-park-07.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Walking the London Loop, Section 9 Hatton Cross to Kingston Bridge via Hounslow and Bushey Park, west London, England, 3rd October, 2010\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This was one for the &#8216;ardcore walkers, with the rain belting down at the start, deeply flooded footpaths to traverse and a fairly ambitious 12 miles to cover in fading light.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/walks\/images\/hatton-cross-bushey-park-02.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Walking the London Loop, Section 9 Hatton Cross to Kingston Bridge via Hounslow and Bushey Park, west London, England, 3rd October, 2010\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The walk started at Hatton Cross, where the ground shook to the roar of planes taking off overhead.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/walks\/images\/hatton-cross-bushey-park-09.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Walking the London Loop, Section 9 Hatton Cross to Kingston Bridge via Hounslow and Bushey Park, west London, England, 3rd October, 2010\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the footpath on the right!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/walks\/images\/hatton-cross-bushey-park-11.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Walking the London Loop, Section 9 Hatton Cross to Kingston Bridge via Hounslow and Bushey Park, west London, England, 3rd October, 2010\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/walks\/images\/hatton-cross-bushey-park-12.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Walking the London Loop, Section 9 Hatton Cross to Kingston Bridge via Hounslow and Bushey Park, west London, England, 3rd October, 2010\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A necessary diversion took us through this delightful industrial park.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/walks\/images\/hatton-cross-bushey-park-18.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Walking the London Loop, Section 9 Hatton Cross to Kingston Bridge via Hounslow and Bushey Park, west London, England, 3rd October, 2010\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Flooded path. My boots weren&#8217;t up to knee deep water!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/walks\/images\/hatton-cross-bushey-park-22.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Walking the London Loop, Section 9 Hatton Cross to Kingston Bridge via Hounslow and Bushey Park, west London, England, 3rd October, 2010\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Onto the (dry!) heathland.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/walks\/images\/hatton-cross-bushey-park-27.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Walking the London Loop, Section 9 Hatton Cross to Kingston Bridge via Hounslow and Bushey Park, west London, England, 3rd October, 2010\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/walks\/images\/hatton-cross-bushey-park-31.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Walking the London Loop, Section 9 Hatton Cross to Kingston Bridge via Hounslow and Bushey Park, west London, England, 3rd October, 2010\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n<p>1828 Shot Tower.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/walks\/images\/hatton-cross-bushey-park-40.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Walking the London Loop, Section 9 Hatton Cross to Kingston Bridge via Hounslow and Bushey Park, west London, England, 3rd October, 2010\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/walks\/images\/hatton-cross-bushey-park-45.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Walking the London Loop, Section 9 Hatton Cross to Kingston Bridge via Hounslow and Bushey Park, west London, England, 3rd October, 2010\" width=\"580\" height=\"393\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Deer in Bushey Park.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/walks\/images\/hatton-cross-bushey-park-52.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Walking the London Loop, Section 9 Hatton Cross to Kingston Bridge via Hounslow and Bushey Park, west London, England, 3rd October, 2010\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/walks\/hatton-cross-bushey-park-walk.html\" target=\"_blank\">Loads more pics here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was one for the &#8216;ardcore walkers, with the rain belting down at the start, deeply flooded footpaths to traverse and a fairly ambitious 12 miles to cover in fading &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194,193],"tags":[22,21],"class_list":["post-2452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-places","tag-parks","tag-walks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/hatton-cross-bushey-park-07.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-Dy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2454,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions\/2454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}