Saturday, January 11, 2025
The fine folk at Footways, the walk-friendly social enterprise, have just produced another of their gorgeous free walking maps, This time it's for Clerkenwell, the historic Islington neighbourhood, and depicts all sorts of places to visit as well as the best ways to thread quietly and picturesquely inbetween. One side focuses on places to eat, drink and discover, including Finsbury Health Centre, Saffron Hill, New River Head and the St John restaurant, plus a potted history of the area. The other side features a fluorescent map ideal for exploring on foot with the newly-launched Green Link Way as a spine down the centre, plus an impresive list of 14 local museums and cultural destinations. I picked up my free copy at The Charterhouse near Barbican station, then used the map to walk round to three other places that also had copies available - the very ancient St Bartholomew The Great, the crusading Museum of the Order of St John and the underrated Islington Museum. All were well worth a repeat visit. Other pick-up sites are available.
Footways maps often start off free then disappear or you end up paying for them, so if you want a copy best move sooner rather than later. Their substantial Central London walkways map now sells for £6 in Stanfords, for example, and I've still never found their Camden Green Loop map despite checking at seven so-called distribution points. If you prefer gadgets to paper then a digital version of the Clerkenwell map is available on the Footways website, but not the map leaflet itself because the good stuff is only grabbable if you go walking. Which may well be the idea.
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