Colliers Wood to Putney Bridge (Wandle Trail) Short Walk

Colliers Wood to Earlsfield

1. Exit Colliers Wood tube station, cross the main road, and follow the pedestrian road with the Charles Holden pub on your left. You are now on the Wandle Tail, which you more or less follow to the Thames. NB: The Wandle Trail has just been re-routed here, so isn't as shown on older maps.
2. Enter Wandle Park NT. Continue ahead. Cross a railed wooden bridge, where the path curves to the left, and a little later, cross a second small wooden bridge.
3. Easy Option Turn right and head towards the children's play area. Exit the park, and turn right on Byegrove Road, then, in 50m, at a road junction, turn left on a walk/cycle path. Follow it north for 500m, with houses on your right, and soon, a nature park on your left. Continue ahead, crossing North Road. Eventually, you come to a railway bridge.
4. Complex Option (Map or GPS advised) Continue ahead, and leave the park, crossing the Wandle. Turn right, following the river. In 25m, a road crosses the Wandle by an old Mill building. Continue ahead to follow the riverside path. Cross a footbridge to the right bank. Cross a road (North Street), head north, then north east (veering right, away from the river bank), eventually joining a tarmac walk/cycle path. NB: Do not follow the riverside path - it peters out soon after a footbridge, becomes overgrown, and is eventually blocked by a railway line.
5. The tarmac path goes under a railway bridge. In 50m you rejoin the river bank.
6. In 300m, at the next bridge (Plough Lane, a main road), cross to the left bank
7. In 1km, at the next bridge (Trewint Street), there is a new development with the Louis Earlsfield restaurant, and beyond a few picnic tables. There are plans to build a riverside bridge under the railway line, but for now, you have to detour away from the river.

Earlsfield

1. Turn right along Trewint Street (a lane) and cross the bridge over the Wandle.
2. Leaving the river path, turn left on Summerley Street.
3. In 200m, you reach Garett Lane and Earlsfield town centre (shops, cafes, pubs). Just to your right is St Andrew's Church which has the nice Home Community Cafe. (weekdays only)
4. Turn left on Garett Lane. Pass Earlsfield station.
5. In 75m turn left on Penwith Road. This road crosses over the Wandle.
6. This section is new. In 50m, take the first right on to Strathville Road. Continue straight on to cross the river again (now Duntshill Road). At the right hand bend, turn left on Flock Mill Place, and in 5m, continue straight on (leaving the road) on a footpath passing under a building overhanging the river.
7. After crossing the river, turn right along the riverside path (Riverdale Drive) on the other side. You have new apartment blocks on your left, and soon enter King George's Park.

Earlsfield to the Thames

1. Follow the path through the park, with the Wandle on your right. Cross Kimber road, and continue through the park. The path leaves the Wandle and veers left.
2. Turn right at a three-way junction and then pass a fenced lake to its left. The back of the Southside Shopping centre is to your right (Waitrose, Decathlon, cafes).
3. At the north end of the park, turn right on Buckhold Road. You soon reach the busy Wandsworth 1-way system.
4. This section is new. Cross the busy road, and then cross the Wandle on a footbridge. Turn left to follow the river past the Young's Brewery redevelopment. [Mar-19] This section is likely to change. Currently you have to walk around some boarded up old Mews houses (i.e., 3 sides of a square). Turn right, and follow the hoarding. Turn left, and cross the busy road (the other side of the 1-way system) at the lights. Turn left again, and walk back to the Wandle.
5. Turn right on to a lane (The Causeway), alongside the Wandle. Follow the river past an industrial area (one of the Tideway building sites, London's 'Supersewer'), and under a railway line.
6. You meet the Thames Path (you can continue on for 25m to the very end of the Wandle Trail, but it's a dead end).

The Thames Path to Putney

1. Turn left (west) on the Thames Path to cross a bridge over a dock.
2. When the residential development is finished, you will turn right here to meet the Thames, but for now skirt around the outside of the building site. Join Enterprise Way. First right on Osiers Road. Continue ahead through the residential area (past the strategically placed planters that make it appear to be private) to the Thames. Turn left (west) along the riverside path.
3. Enter Wandsworth park. At its far end, the Thames path leaves the river. Go through a wide pedestrian gate about 40m inland to enter Blade Mews. At its end, continue in the same direction along Deodar Road. Pass under a railway bridge (with a footbridge - it leads to Putney Bridge tube station). At the end, the road curves right towards the river. Continue along a lane for 20m to rejoin the Thames
4. In 75m, you come to a slipway down to the riverbed, The Boathouse pub/restaurant, and The Rocket pub (a Wetherspoon's).
5. Just past the pubs is St Mary's Church, Putney Pantry cafe, and Putney Bridge.
6. To return to Colliers Wood : turn left on Putney Bridge Road, then left again to a bus stop. Catch a bus to Tooting Broadway. Alight by the tube station. From there, either walk 1km along the A24 (passing Sainsburys at the start), or go 1 stop on the tube, or catch a frequent bus from outside Sainsburys, back to Colliers Wood.
7. To continue walking : follow the Thames Path along the south bank for 2.5 km to Hammersmith Bridge. Cross the bridge. From there it's 500m to Hammersmith tube.

Putney Bridge, Bishop's Park and Fulham Palace

1. Cross the bridge. Turn right on Gonville Garden for Putney Bridge tube station.
2. Or, to explore the Palace and Park, cross the road to All Saints Church.
3. Walk through the churchyard, and visit the church (free entry). Exit on the far side of the churchyard, through a pedestrian gate into Fulham Palace park.
4. Pass the walled garden to reach the main Palace building. Enter the palace via its cafe, and walk through it (free entry).
5. Exit into Bishops Palace Park (cafe by the children's play area).
6. After looking around the park, return along the riverbank to Putney Bridge, passing a mock Tudor building.