The walk around Highgate features many characters including Adolf Hitler, Peter Sellers, Charles Dickens, John Betjeman, Coleridge, Francis Bacon, Dick Turpin, Karl Marx and Kate Moss. It being Highgate there are some slopes to walk up and down but they are not steep. We start on the platform at Blackheath station in time to catch the 0935 train to London Bridge from where we will take the Northern line to Highgate, probably changing at Camden Town. There is a coffee stop about one third of the way round  the 3-1/2 mile walk, which is based on London's Hidden Walks Volume 3 by Stephen Millar. We will take lunch at St John's Tavern, 91 Junction Road, N19 at 1pm near Archway tube station from where you can return to Blackheath. 

Tickets £10, booking details to be announced.