Nettles slowly getting higher! Whippendell Circular Walk for #FingerpostFriday

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Perfect day for the monthly litter picking organised by Friends of the Welsh Harp. All along the reservoir, a SSSI, and on the Capital Ring. @ldnloop-capring.bsky.social

New fingerpost for #FingerpostFriday. Pointing to a new bridge over the A3, the first land bridge for wildlife in the UK. Human wildlife can use it too.

Wokcob3 #SlowWays between Woking and Cobham can be done more easily now. Yes, huzzahuzza. Fantastic bridge.

New #SlowWays route between Charing Cross and Monument. Using the Bazalgette Embankment, the first new embankment in London for 150 years, which is now open after years of works. Improves the ThamesPath @thamespathnt.bsky.social here too. Great walk, so much history to see.

##FingerpostFriday in Cassiobury park. Hot today.

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Orpswa2, Swanley to Orpington ##SlowWays Quite a varied walk, so interesting. Views of the city. Views of crops wading through rapeseed. Refreshing. Thunder clouds threatened impotently.

Wow - 😍 The Slow Ways walking network as of May 2026 ✨ 🐌 A massive congratulations to everyone who's contributed so far. 10,000+ routes stretching for 150,000km. All the purple routes you can see are triple-checked and volunteer verified. All green routes have been rated ⭐⭐⭐⭐ or ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐.

Chislehurst to Orpington #SlowWays Chiorp3 a lovely walk through ancient woodland. Follows the #LondonLoop for a while. Memorial to William Willett, builder & BST advocate, who gave Petts Wood to the nation.

#PostboxSaturday in Royal Parade, Chislehurst.

Love little alleyways,especially if there's a #FingerpostFriday to show where it goes.

Friday #SlowWays path between Erith and Dartford. Parks, mudflats, rivers Cray and Darent. Hoary Cress and stranded barges (bad huffler?). So many flowers this time of year.

Poppy #Wildflowerhour

Whitetop #wildflowerhour

Deep woodland shade then open downland on Netcou2 #SlowWays Nethern-on-the-Hill to Coulsdon. Views of the city from Farthing Downs 25km away.

#FingerpostFriday In 1907 this was the Northern Line terminus.

Sculptural #ThickTrunkTuesday The feel of it.

Rednet4 #SlowWays. Redhill to Nethern-on-the-Hill. Hard work in places, steep, but the views! Spring green woodland provided shade. Rivers, lakes, hills, woods, and a village shop bigger on the inside than the outside.

High enough? #FingerpostFriday

A hiking round of applause for Colonel D’Arcy Dalton please! A man that until now I didn’t know existed but to whom I owe so much (many thanks to u/purpleypinkwitch for introducing me to him) www.reddit.com/r/UKhiking/s...

Quick #SlowWays walk yesterday between Blackheath and Eltham yesterday. There's real value in getting from A to B reliably in a city. No traffic disruptions, well chosen green routes.

Wonderful morning discovering a hidden world in plain sight - lichens. Thanks to Gemma and Ella @theroyalparks.bsky.social for learning about ID- ing and uses of lichens. Found bubblegum lichens (and bubblegum) on the way home.

Greenwich Park, MazeHill, this morning. #FingerpostFriday

#ThickTrunkTuesday Giant pussy willow in Hiroshima. It was 740m from the hypocenter of the A-bomb and survived. It's Spring, it looks bare but there are buds full to bursting on the branches.

That blue. Never quite captured on camera. #Bluebells

Pre-WWII Japanese post box in Busan, South Korea. The 'T' with a line over it is the 'post' symbol in Japan. #PostboxSaturday

A selection of South Korean fingerposts for #FingerpostFriday

Windsor Great Park #FingerpostFriday

##FingerpostFriday in Miyajima, Japan.

Handy fingerpost. ##FingerpostFriday

Good news! Benson Weir Walkway is due to open on 1st April. The weir has been rebuilt with new radial gates, new fishpass and wider walkway between Preston Crowmarsh and Benson Lock for the #ThamesPath National Trail. #fingerpostfriday @ramblers.org.uk

Towards Colley Hill, Reigate. ##FingerpostFriday

Hearei1 #SlowWays between Headley and Reigate. Wonderful walk, challenging underfoot in places but views and variety. Greensand and chalk landscapes in Surrey.

#SlowWays Ashhea1, Ashstead to Headley. Lovely 5km walk through Surrey chalkland. Woods, Farmland and a Roman road. Signs of Spring everywhere.

#FingerpostFriday on the old Roman Road Stane Street. Still in use today.

#SlowWays route Godoxt2 between Godstone and Oxted. Warm sunny midweek day through Surrey countryside. Some mud but the greensand ridge was dryish.

Beautiful #SlowWays walk between Redhill and Godstone, Redgod3. Started misty then the sun shone. Spring greenery just about showing.

ER VII postbox in Hendon for #postboxsaturday

Almost ghost-like #FingerpostFriday on the Wandle Trail. Mitcham.

The Tandridge Yew for #ThickTrunkThursday. Over 2000 years old. On #SlowWays route Godoxt2

The Sunshine yesterday really made the daffodils and primrose standout #Spring

Olive trees, London. With olives! #ThickTrunkTuesday

Another new #UKCanals version of a @slowwaysuk.bsky.social route, walked with @rehctubynotna.bsky.social , this time from Paddington to Camden along the Regents Canal, through the zoo!