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Barnet Healthy Heritage Walks

Barnet Council, Public Health

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Barnet Council presents a suite of audio guided heritage walks with support from the British Guild of Tourist Guides. These walks are designed to provide a gentle stroll of about 5 to 10 kilometres or 3 to 6 miles, approximately 5000 to 10,000 steps, taking in a few buildings and sites of interest, and where possible using green spaces and footpaths. To give us your feedback on the walks, please contact us at publichealth@barnet.gov.uk
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Barnet Council presents this walk, in association with British Guild of Tourist Guides. This walk takes you on a tour of the rich heritage of Golders Green and Hampstead Garden Suburb. The route has 20 points of heritage to note, starting and ending at Golders Green Tube Station. Please note that this is mainly an urban trail, however there are som…
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Barnet Council presents this walk, in association with British Guild of Tourist Guides. This linear walk is from East Finchley and ends at St. Mary’s-at-Finchley Church, in Finchley Church End. Can you find the key stone? See if you can spot Spike Milligan sitting on a bench! Please note that this is mainly a paved, urban trail. The walk is approxi…
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Barnet Council presents this walk, in association with British Guild of Tourist Guides. This walk takes you through interesting sites of Mill Hill and includes the original Mill Hill Village along The Ridgeway, where some notable large houses and quaint cottages survive. Please note that this is mainly an urban trail, however there are some grassy …
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Barnet Council Presents this walk in association with the British Guild of Tourist Guides. This walk starts in East Finchley and finishes New Southgate, passing through St Pancras and Islington Cemetery, Coppetts Wood, and eventually arriving in Friern Park and the building which was previously Colney Hatch Asylum. This is not a circular walk. The …
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Barnet Council presents this walk in association with the British Guild of Tourist Guides. This walk through High Barnet and Hadley is filled with history; it has over 10 heritage points to note. From how "Chipping Barnet" got its name, to the Battle of Barnet in Hadley Green, this walk really gives a sense of the boroughs past. It is mainly an urb…
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Barnet Council presents this walk in association with British Guild of Tourist Guides. This is an additional loop in the Totteridge Walk, around Darland's Lake Nature Reserve. Please note that the walk goes through areas that can become muddy when wet and may not be suitable for pushchairs or other wheeled vehicles. Music: Canada by Pictures of the…
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Barnet Council Presents this walk in association with British Guild of Tourist Guides. This walk is a circuit through the fields that straddle the boundary between Mill Hill and Totteridge, and has four stops. The walk takes in part of Totteridge Valley, one of the most rural areas within the borough of Barnet and is approximately 7 kilometres, 4.3…
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What's your vision of the world? Removed of politics, people, and logistics, if there was one specific thing you could do to change the world as we know it, what would it be? Join me, Hayden Cohen (www.haydencohen.co.uk) as I hear from special guests creating an imagined utopian vision of the future.Episode 1 -The Right Honourable Ann Widdecombe - …
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Kid When I saw that kid with the red t-shirt and blue shorts onStill as rock and face down in the sandMy heart missed a beat.I couldn’t believe that it’d come to this.A pissed off dictator fighting some pissed off extremistsAnd here this kid in the sand with no life ahead of him.I know I’m not on my own.Millions of people donating time and clothes …
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