Category: District Line

District Line

Ealing Broadway to Upminster Ealing Broadway to Ealing Common walk Ealing Common to Acton Town walk Acton Town to Chiswick Park walk Chiswick Park to Turnham Green walk Turnham Green to Stamford Brook walk Stamford Brook to Ravenscourt Park walk Ravenscourt Park to Hammersmith walk Hammersmith to Barons Court walk Barons Court to West Kensington …

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South Kensington to Sloane Square walk

We starting outside South Kensington station at the Exhibition Road entrance. This area has a very French atmosphere mainly due to the proliferation of French organisations around these parts… We start off on the very non-descript Thurloe Place – named after John Thurloe, a secretary to the council of state during the Oliver Cromwell period …

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East Putney

East Putney is a London Underground station on the Wimbledon branch of the District line.

Ravenscourt Park

Ravenscourt Park is served by the District line and is located between Hammersmith and Stamford Brook stations.

Hammersmith

Hammersmith is a district in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, approximately eight kilometres west of Charing Cross on the north bank of the River Thames.

Acton Town

Acton Town station was opened as Mill Hill Park on 1 July 1879 by the District Railway (now the District line).

Aldgate East

In a land east of Aldgate, lies the land of Aldgate East…

Upminster Bridge to Hornchurch walk

The walk between Upminster Bridge and Hornchurch sees us walk right out of the station, under the railway bridge, immediately right (Norfolk Road) and immediately right again into Aldborough Road. Full of interwar house, this arrives at a T Junction with Granton Avenue. Take a right and over Hacton Lane via a short footpath access. …

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High Street Kensington

High Street Kensington is a London Underground station on Kensington High Street.

Ealing Common

Ealing Common is an area of open space which became prominent at the time of the enclosures of the late eighteenth century.