On 30/6/04 10:31 pm, in article
[email protected], "Dr
Curious" <
[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 20:50:28 +0100, David Martin
> <
[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 30/6/04 5:56 pm, in article 2kg9nlF24h1tU1@uni-
>> berlin.de, "Dr Curious" <
[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Going anti-clockwise you go up the hill just past the
>>> Kingston Gate turn along at the top past the car park
>>> and at the crossroads there's a turn to your left that
>>> used to go up a hill past a building of some sorts and
>>> bring you back onto the road back up to the Main gate.
>> That'll be left at the Robin Hood gate road and up to Pen
>> Ponds, across past the White Lodge (Royal Ballet School)
>> and down to the junction by sheen gate.
>> If you go left just before teh pen ponds car park then
>> you come out by the road to Ham gate.
> ...
> No. If you enter at the Star and Garter at the top of the
> hill and turn right, then its downhill all the way to the
> Kingston Gate. On your right you immediately pass the car
> park with the tearoom and Lodge and further down the road
> to the Ham Gate. Before you reach the Kingston Gate you do
> a sharp left and climb the steepest hill in the park, it
> winds left and then right through trees and you emerge at
> the top.
Lets get this straight. You are talking about coming in at
Richmond gate and heading towards kingston gate. Immediately
before kingston gate you turn left and go up Dark Hill. At
the top you pass Ladderstile gate (no vehicular access, foot
access only), pass the car park and the track that leads to
the Isabella plantation and then go down Test Hill to Robin
Hood gate (used to be vehicular access, went ingress only
during the early eighties IIRC and now appears to be no
vehicular access.). The crossroads here leads to Roehampton
gate (straight on) or to Pen Ponds car park (left.)
If you go left then you can either bear left which takes you
to the junction leading to Ham gate, if you go right you go
past the Royal Ballet School and end up on the main road at
the junction leading to Sheen gate between Roehampton gate
and Richmond gate. The main vehicular access to the royal
ballet school is typically from the Sheen Gate side. The
building is fairly nondescript from the road side and a lot
better from the garden side.
> It's then pretty flat and you pass another car park on
> your right, and then you meet a crossroads - I assume the
> right hand road leads to another Gate - I have an A t Z in
> the other room and anyway it would be on Streetfinder -
> the straight ahead continues the cicuit of the Park and
> the left turn takes you through trees past a bulding on
> the right maybe a lodge but seemed nondescript IIRR.
> Through trees and the road or track then leads in a slight
> climb to the road on the far side which turning left
> [A]leads back to the Star and Garter. So the shortened
> circuit has the Star and Garter and the Kindgston Gate as
> the legitimate parts and the circuit cuts across the park
> half way
RO '. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ' ' ' ' ' ' ' '
SH..[A]..< RBS ....<.PP..<.....<.........RH ' | ^ V
| ' ' | ^--LS V | hill
SG....>......>..........>.......Kingston Gate HG
*SG (Star and Garter), HG (Ham Gate), *Kingston Gate LS
Ladderstile Gate *RH Robin Hood gate PP Pen Ponds RBS Royal
ballet school *RO Roehampton Gate *SH Sheen gate
* indicates a roundabout.
I grew up within walking distance of the park during the
70's and 80's so know it fairly well. I even worked during
one college vacation at the Royal Ballet School so I do know
it fairly well..
..d
