The Grand Union Canal – Kensal Green to Little Venice

Kensal Green tube station, London

Guided by Canal Guides

Walk Times

Day Walk Type Start Time End Time
29 July 2023 Tour du Jour 2.30 pm 4.30 pm Summer

And as long as we’re at it, here are our other forthcoming (in August) Regent’s Canal & Inland Waterways Walks (and a bonus, in italics, a couple of additional “reasons why”).

On Sunday, August 6th at 2.30 pm The Regent’s Canal – River Tyburn to Little Venice

“walking is man’s best medicine” Hippocrates

On Sunday, August 20th at 2.30 pm: Limehouse – Thames  – Docklands

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

On Sunday, August 27th at 2.30 pm: The Regent’s Canal – Islington to Kingsland Road

AND NOW OUR MAIN COURSE – THIS GRAND UNION CANAL WALK

Short read: Exactly what it says on the tin.

Long read: One of the 25 different canal walks we conduct in partnership with the Inland Waterways Association. That partnership should be music to your ears. It means you’ll be guided by an expert. All of our canal walks guides are members of the IWA.  Boat owners, they know the canals, their history, their particulars, their curiosities, their secrets. And since it all comes down to the guiding and local knowledge, well, you’ll get my drift. This canal walk is bookended by Kensal Rise cemetery and Little Venice. In short, two of the most extraordinary “bookends” in the entire repertory of some 500 different London Walks. And along the way, the Grand Union Canal – the Cinderella of London’s canal network.

Also discover our top 10 suggestions of things to do in and around Little Venice which you can fit in before or after your walk!

PRACTICALS

The Grand Union Canal  – Kensal Green to Little Venice walk takes place at 2.30 pm on Saturday, July 29. Meet Roger or one of his Canal Guides colleagues just outside the exit of Kensal Green  Tube

LONDON WALKS PRIVATE WALKS

If you can’t make one of the regularly scheduled, just-turn-up, The Grand Union Canal – Kensal Green to Little Venice it can always be booked as a private tour. If you go private you can have the The Grand Union Canal – Kensal Green to Little Venice walk – or any other London Walk – on a day and at a time that suits your convenience. We’ll tailor it to your requirements. Ring Fiona or Mary on 020 7624 3978 or email us at [email protected] and we’ll set it up and make it happen for you. A private London Walk – they’re good value for an individual or couple and sensational value for a group – makes an ideal group or educational or birthday party or office (team-building) or club outing.

GIVE THE GIFT OF LONDON WALKS

A private London Walk makes a fab gift – be it a birthday or anniversary or Christmas present or whatever. Merchandise schmerchandise (gift wrapped or not) – but giving someone an experience, now that’s special. Memories make us rich.

LONDON WALKS – STREETS AHEAD!

Don’t just take it from us.

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