Published: 02/10/2022
The walking options around Richmond are endless and as well as my regular walks on the grounds of Richmond Park, you could find me walking riverside most days.Walking to Isleworth was a pleasure and was probably the walk that I did the most as it was about one hour return: the perfect amount of time for an after-work stroll.
Passing Richmond Lock and walking along the towpath, only minutes away from the tourist hub of the Richmond waterfront near Richmond Bridge, I would hardly see anyone along this section of the river.
There is a section of the walk where you have to leave the riverfront and walk along a road for a bit, then it’s back to the river and past a beautiful pub, a houseboat community, and the shipbuilding yards (where our own houseboat was towed to be fixed after springing a leak).
The walk ends at the historic London Apprentice in Old Isleworth, a great pub with a balcony that extends over the river. It is said that Henry VIII and Oliver Cromwell both frequented the pub and Charles Dickens mentioned it in his weekly periodical, ‘All Year Round’.