Royal Victoria Dock to East India Dock Towpath Walk

Royal Victoria DLR Station (Emirates Air Line/Seagull Lane exit)

Guided by Canal Guides

Walk Times

Day	Walk Type	Start Time	End Time
5 November 2023	Tour du Jour	2.30 pm	4.30 pm	Winter	Reserve Online
21 April 2024	Tour du Jour	2.30 pm	4.30 pm	Winter	Reserve Online

And as long as we’re at it: here are our other Regent’s Canal & Inland Waterways Walks in late May, June and early July (and a bonus, a couple of additional “reasons why”).

On Sunday, May 28th at 2.30 pm: the Royal Victoria Dock to East India Dock Towpath Walk

“walking is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things” Elizabeth von Arnim

On Sunday, June 18th at 2.30 pm: Limehouse – Thames – Docklands

“walking is man’s best medicine” Hippocrates

On Sunday, July 2nd at 2.30 pm: The Regent’s Canal – King’s Cross, Granary Square, St. Pancras

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NOW, AS FOR THIS WALK

They’ve done it again! Here’s a new towpath walk created by the London Walks Regent’s Canal Walks team of guides.

When built, the big new Victoria Dock made all the earlier up-river docks look out-of-date.

Now, the Excel Centre and the Cable-car and a watersports centre make up the view from the new GLA Assembly building.

Next, a view of where HMS Warrior was built. The world’s first all-iron warship, it is preserved at Portsmouth.

Across the river, a total change in style – the O2 Arena is a popular music concert venue, as well as a Basketball stadium.

And watching over the Thames is London’s only lighthouse.

Virginia Quay speaks for itself: the Settlers Monument commemorates the men on their three ships, the “Susan Constant”, the “Godspeed”, and the “Discovery”, who set sail for America, to found the first permanent English colony at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607. Navigating across the ocean with an astrolabe would have seemed like space travel today.

Next, a walk along a timeline  –  along the Greenwich Prime Meridian.

Then on to East India Dock, once home to the famous East India Company, and remembered for all kinds of exotic spices.

PRACTICALS

The Royal Victoria Dock – Thames – East India Docks Walk takes place at 2.30 pm on Sunday, November 5 and at 2.30 pm on Sunday, April 21.

The meeting point is outside the Royal Victoria DLR station, Emirates Airline / Seagull Lane exit.

The walk finishes at East India DLR station.