About us
Metropolitan Walkers is the London walking community aimed at people of working age, and the largest Ramblers group in London.
All our planned walks can be found at https://www.metropolitan-walkers.org.uk/walks/. We publish to MeetUp to showcase our activities to a wider audience!
If you've not walked with us before, you’re welcome to come along on three free walks before becoming a member, to see if Met Walkers is for you! Membership is around £43 per year, or £30 concessionary rate.
We’re a very active group. Our volunteers lead walks every weekend, ranging from short, leisurely walks to strenuous hikes of 17+ miles across hilly terrain. We also lead one evening stroll during the week, discovering different parts of the capital.
We explore the beautiful areas near London such as the North Downs, south coast and Chilterns, all of which are accessible by public transport.
A lot of our members walk regularly, which is a great way to form friendships. As well as walking, we have a regular social programme.
We regularly run weekends away to explore the other great walking areas the UK has to offer, such as the Lake District, Snowdonia and Scotland, and have also put on several trips abroad.
We’re part of the Ramblers – the charity that helps everyone, everywhere, enjoy walking; and protects the places we all love to walk.
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Registered charity 1093577. Metropolitan Walkers is a part of the Ramblers - Britain's walking charity.
Upcoming events
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Seven Sisters and The Tiger (17 miles/Strenuous)
Eastbourne rail station, Terminus Road, BN21 3QJ, Eastbourne, GBBrisk hilly walk over chalk clifftop path and pasture lands, some steep climbs 1050m total ascent, bring packed lunch, afternoon pub or café stop, pub at end of walk.
Travel- Take 9:24 London Victoria,
(9:31 CLJ, 9:40 ECR), arrive Eastbourne 10:51.Grading: Strenuous.
For an explanation of the gradings, please see the FAQ - please consider both the length and grade when choosing a walk.Walk Leader: Matt 07976 603076
Finish point: Eastbourne Station.
More info: https://www.ramblers.org.uk/go-walking/group-walks/seven-sisters-and-tiger-4
Members do not need to sign up, we usually get 10-15 people out.
Metropolitan Walkers is part of the Ramblers, Britain's walking charity. All welcome for 3 'taster' walks, after which please join the Ramblers - info on the Met Walkers website1 attendee
Rambling in Metroland (13 miles/Moderate)
Great Missenden, Off A413 roundabout, Great Missenden. HP16 9AE, GBMetropolitan Walkers is part of the Ramblers, Britain's walking charity. All welcome for 3 'taster' walks, after which please join the Ramblers - info on the Met Walkers website
Loosely recreating a route from the cover of a 1920s Metropolitan Railways leaflet 'Rambles in Metroland', which is now available as a poster in the London Underground Museum shop, this walk explores part of the Chiltern AONB taking in some of the South Bucks Way and passing through typical Metroland villages.
We will have a lunch stop on the common at Hyde Heath with optional pub, heading through the village we go through woodland, re-cross the railway, and re-join the South Bucks Way through Amersham Old Town then on to the tube station.
The walk will end with a visit to the Mad Squirrel Tap.
Please bring a packed lunch.
Travel: Take the 10:27 from London Marylebone (10:39 Harrow-on-the-Hill, 11:03 Amersham), arr. 11:10 Great Missenden.
Buy return to Great Missenden (or single + use Oyster/contactless).
Meet outside of the main entrance to Great Missenden Station.
Grading: Moderate.
For an explanation of the gradings, please see the FAQ - please consider both the length and grade when choosing a walk.Finish point: Amersham Station
More info: https://www.ramblers.org.uk/go-walking/group-walks/rambling-metroland-08 attendeesI Long to Cross Chobham on the way to Bagshot (15 miles/Moderate)
Longcross Station, KT16 0EX, Longcross, GBMetropolitan Walkers is part of the Ramblers, Britain's walking charity. All welcome for 3 'taster' walks, after which please join the Ramblers - info on the Met Walkers website
Beginning in Longcross, we explore Chobham Common, one of the largest National Nature Reserves in the South East and thought to be amongst the finest remaining examples of lowland heath in the world.
We stop for lunch in the pretty village of Chobham where there will be an optional pub stop (drinks only), before traversing more Surrey countryside and finishing in Bagshot.
Bring a packed lunch. Optional pub stop at the end of the walk.
Please note that Longcross has a small station with no toilets - it is recommended to use the facilities on the train.
Travel: Take 09:39 from London Waterloo (09:43 Vauxhall; 09:49 Clapham Junction; 09:53 Putney; 09:59 Richmond), arrive in Longcross at 10:28.
Buy a return to Bagshot.
Please note the return journey from Bagshot will require you to change trains in either Ascot or Ash Vale, depending on which departure you get.
Grading: Moderate.
For an explanation of the gradings, please see the FAQ - please consider both the length and grade when choosing a walk.Finish point: Bagshot Station
More info: https://www.ramblers.org.uk/go-walking/group-walks/i-long-cross-chobham-way-bagshot7 attendeesIn search of Bohemia: Augustas, Gewn, The Bride, The Marchesa and The Queen.
Euston Square Tube Station (outside the station), Euston, London, GBMetropolitan Walkers is part of the Ramblers, Britain's walking charity. All welcome for 3 'taster' walks, after which please join the Ramblers - info on the Met Walkers website
From the end of the c19 until the outbreak of WW2 what we now think of as Fitzrovia was known as the heart of Bohemia. Not the Bohemia that was the birthplace of Little Red Riding Hood, but a mythical land of freedom and high living, of good art and lost nights.
This walk will expire some of the key places of that lost enclave, along the way meeting some of the surprising characters that resided there. Before finishing at a pub that that has seen all of them and more through its doors.Easy | 4 miles / 6.4 km | Ascent: 10m / 33ft
Start: Euston Square Underground station, Gower Street Exit (Turn Left on exiting barriers) @ 07:00 pm
Postcode: NW1 2LUEnd: Tottenham Court Road Station.
Postcode: W1D 1AW12 attendees
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