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This Rough Guide is one of a new generation of informative and easy-to-use travel-guide ebooks that guarantees you make the most of your trip. An essential tool for pre-trip planning, it also makes a great travel companion when youre on the road.
From the chapters offer comprehensive accounts of each walk, region by region, alongside full-colour maps to highlight routes. All accounts include practical information on public transport, tips on where to eat, drink and on the two-day walks stay, plus interesting facts and beautiful photography.
Detailed area maps feature in the guide chapters and are also listed in the , accessible from the table of contents. Depending on your hardware, you can double-tap on the maps to see larger-scale versions, or select different scales. There are also thumbnails below more detailed maps in these cases, you can opt to zoom left/top or zoom right/bottom or view the full map. The screen-lock function on your device is recommended when viewing enlarged maps. Make sure you have the latest software updates, too.
Throughout the guide, weve flagged up our favourite places - a perfectly sited hotel, an atmospheric caf, a special restaurant - with the author pick icon . You can select your own favourites and create a personalized itinerary by bookmarking the sights, venues and activities that are of interest, giving you the quickest possible access to everything youll need for your time away.
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This ebook contains material published in print in July 2016 in the third edition of Walks in London & the Southeast by
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Helena Smith, 2016
ISBN: 9780241248614
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Contains Ordnance Survey data Crown copyright and database rights 2016
CREATIVE TEAM Author: Helena Smith Editor: Ann-Marie Shaw Layout: Nikhil Agarwal Cartography: Katie Bennett, Ashutosh Bharti, Rajesh Mishra Picture Editor: Michelle Bhatia Proofreader: Jan McCann Overseeing editor: Rebecca Hallett Managing Editor: Mani Ramaswamy Assistant Editor: Payal Sharotri Production: Jimmy Lao Cover Photo Research: Michelle Bhatia Editorial Assistant: Freya Godfrey Senior Pre-press Designer: Dan May Programme Manager: Gareth Lowe Publishing Director: Georgina Dee
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ISBN: 9780241284926
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Helena Smith was brought up in Scotland and Malawi and now lives in Hackney, east London. She wrote the first guide to Hackney and blogs about food and her community at eathackney.com .
Acknowledgements
Helena Smith Thank you to everyone who came walking with me, for making the research such a happy experience: Andrew Gray, Angela Smith, Art Terry, Basi and Federico, Benedict Mann, Claire Boobbyer, Clare OConnell, Coralie Burke, Dan Smith, Fran Booth, Kate Flint, Laura Donaldson, Markie Rogers, Richard Bee, Sarah Dallas and my goddaughter Juliette, Sue Batten, Suzy Bennett and Taryn Holman.
Sincere thanks to Ann-Marie Shaw who made the editing process a pleasure; to Becca Hallett for route checking and cheerleading; to Michelle Bhatia for sourcing lovely images; to readers Angus Rodger and Gail Deacon for their feedback; and to Andrew Stronghill and Lucy McLeod for amending Penshurst details.
Special thanks to my mother Angela, for sharing her love of walking and nature, and for keeping me company. And to the Ordnance Survey, whose beautiful maps inspired these routes.
Photo credits
All photos Rough Guides except the following:
Alamy Images/Andrew Holt
Alamy Images/DavidCC
Alamy Images/eye35
Alamy Images/Helen Dixon
Alamy Images/Homer Sykes
Alamy Images/Londonstills.com
Alamy Images/nobleIMAGES
Alamy Images/Peter Lane
Alamy Images/Simon Tranter Photography
Alamy Images/Slawek Staszczuk
courtesy of Blenheim Palace/Pete Seaward
courtesy of Miltons Cottage/J.D. Bradley
courtesy of Watts Gallery Artists Village
Dreamstime.com/Afagundes
Dreamstime.com/Anizza
Dreamstime.com/Chestert
Dreamstime.com/Chris Dorney
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Dreamstime.com/Irstone
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