Hmm, where else can we see historic ships? I was going to say Chatham, but it's quite a walk from the station to the Dockyard. M Shed (Bristol Harbour Railway) will do.
I was thinking to go there on the previous move. But seeing as we're there now...Maida Vale (which, btw, I thought was Maid Of Ale until I saw it written down when I moved to London in my late 20s)
Wivenhoe - on the same line, very pretty little riverside settlement with folklore that the name derived from the wyvern. It didn't, it relates to Saxon etymology.
Have you been to Island Gardens? It's fun because it's the nearest entrance on the north side of the Thames to the Greenwich foot tunnel, which is an experience everyone should have at least once, but not a lot of use for secateurs. Before the DLR went south of the Thames we used to use that route to get to Greenwich.
If it's tunnels we're after, then a much more uncommon walk underneath the Thames is to go through the tunnel that shares its name with another station: Rotherhithe
n.b. It's really rather an unpleasant walk. The pavement is narrow, the air is foul and drivers like to honk their horns at you just as they are passing.
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Wemyss Bay
Next season they'll be playing Colchester ...
No. But sticking with the same watercourse…
Sloane Square
Covent Garden
MORNINGTON CRESCENT!
Now that that's out of the way, I think we'll head slightly North:
Doncaster
Thurso
Bergen
Kelvedon
Sorry about that ...
Peckham Rye
Ealing Common
Pimlico
And talking of secateurs, how about Island Gardens
While we're playing DLR, how about Gallions Reach
n.b. It's really rather an unpleasant walk. The pavement is narrow, the air is foul and drivers like to honk their horns at you just as they are passing.