Talk:Parkland Walk

Ruth Rendell used Parkland Walk as the setting for one of her scariest London murder mysteries—I don't recall the title but it stayed with me. Read it several years before moving to London and was taken aback to realize it was about a half-mile away fro

...used Parkland Walk as the setting for one of her scariest London murder mysteries—I don't recall the title but it stayed with me. Read it several years before moving to London and was taken aback to realize Stroud Green was (a) a real place and (b) right next to where I was living. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.81.74.242 (talk) 03:41, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

The route description is incomplete

The route description in the article omits an entire section of the Parkland Walk south of Finsbury Park, which I walked a number of times when I was working in the area between 2010 and 2020. This is pedestrian-only and starts at the western end of Gillespie Road, close to Arsenal station and a short distance north of the Emirates Stadium, and then runs close to the eastern side of the railway lines out of Kings Cross towards Finsbury Park station until it descends down a steep flight of steps to Seven Sisters Road immediately south of Finsbury Park station. This then connects to the rest of the Parkland Walk as described in the article by crossing Seven Sisters Road, walking past the eestern entrances to Finsbury Park station, then into Finsbury Park and close to its western edge until one reaches the railway footbridge at which the article currently says that the Parkland Walk starts. The 4.5 mile length for the Parkland Walk which the article describes as "mistaken" is in fact correct when this section is included.

I am noting this here for now rather than in the article, until I can find official descriptions of the route that can be regarded as a reliable source (at least for verification purposes). PWilkinson (talk) 19:21, 27 June 2021 (UTC)

The pedestrian route you describe, which I know quite well, is the path through Gillespie Park. It is not part of the Parkland Walk. Dubmill (talk) 19:38, 27 June 2021 (UTC)

Road plans of the 80s

As far as I can tell the only reference to the fact that a road might have been planned on the line of the walk and that it was successfully stopped by the Friends of the Parkland Walk is the Friends of the Parkland Walk website itself. Is there any other reference that covers this? 77.103.186.79 (talk) 20:10, 28 February 2023 (UTC)