Brentford
We started at Brentford Gauging Lock, and followed the canal as far as Thames Lock.
At Thames Lock, we climbed to the bridge and followed the road back to the high street.
Thames
We made our way to the path by the Thames (more accurately at this point, muddy side-streams of the Thames) and followed it eastward.
Past Kew Bridge we continued on the riverside of Strand on the Green, until we ran out of path.
Chiswick House
Having left the river, we passed some rather posh residential streets until we reached the grounds of Chiswick House. We walked through the gardens and looked at the outside of the house, but didn’t visit it - although we did stop at their café.
Thames
After a short walk past a church we joined the Thames Path again at Chiswick Mall, which is an even posher stretch of waterside.
We passed Furnivall Gardens, a park in the location where Hammersmith Creek once joined the river (it has since been filled in, although there is a large drainage outfall).
Hammersmith
On reaching the bridge we left the river and crossed under the best-known local beauty spot, the Hammersmith Flyover, to reach the shopping centre and bus station.
The bus station part seems unnecessarily complicated; there are actually two separate bus stations, one either side of the shopping centre. We went to the wrong one first, but we did get home in the end!
(My dad also posted photos of this walk.)
Bonus: A tree
On the next day we visited my brother in Matlock, Derbyshire. He took us on a rather muddy walk up Oker Hill to see a well-known local sycamore tree which was, apparently, once sonnetized by Wordsworth. (Does that make it poet-tree?)
