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It comes in at slightly more than 26.2 miles as drawn, and the actual length of the paths through tree covered areas like Isabella Plantation & the Woodland Gardens in Bushy Park have not yet been measured accurately. So I anticipate a bit more tweaking to try to get the distance a bit closer to the official length of 26 miles and 385 yards. But it’s going to be pretty much what I have drawn. The route starts at the car park at Kingston Gate in Richmond Park, and goes first to Isabella Plantation, then Pen Ponds, then down to Ham Gate and out through Ham to the river. It turns left and up the river to Kingston, across the bridge and into Bushy Park. It crosses Bushy Park diagonally to the Heron Pond, through the car park by the Diana Fountain, and follows the path across the little footbridge, over the road and into the eastern Woodland Garden. It comes out at the other end of that Woodland Garden and into the western Woodland Garden. It exits at the northern tip of that garden through the 2 sets of gates, turns left and follows the fence line north until it reaches the new Water Gardens. It goes through the Water Gardens and out the other side then turns right and follows the path until it reaches the main path known as Cobbler's Walk. It then follows Cobbler's Walk until it comes to the broad area of cut grass which flanks Chestnut Avenue. It takes a path to the right down past the Diana Fountain and out the southern end of Bushy Park. It crosses the road and into Hampton Court, past the Maze on the right, through a gateway in the wall and turns left past the rose garden. It crosses the front of Hampton Court and out of the pedestrian gate onto the river again, turns left and round the side of Hampton Court and the formal gardens. It goes in through Jubilee Gate and then a second gate and into Home Park. It crosses the golf course and stays on an obvious path past a pond, until it reaches the Long Water. It turns right and follows the Long Water to its end, then crosses the golf course road, goes past the Overflow Pond and continues on the path until it exits Home Park. On leaving Home Park the route turns hard right, back to Kingston Bridge, across the bridge and down the steps onto the river again, through the tunnel under Kingston Bridge, and along the river, through Canbury Gardens and turns right into Kings Passage a few metres before the Bandstand. It keeps going all the way up Lower Kings Road, then Kings Road, back to Richmond Park. On re-entering Richmond Park, the route then climbs the hill and along the eastern stretch of the perimeter track of the park round to Robin Hood Gate. It goes out of the gate, over the A3 using the bridge, round the edge of a sports ground, into a ring of hedges and trees with a large war memorial in the centre, and into Wimbledon Common. It follows a track up to the golf course, across 2 fairways and down to Queensmere pond, then turns right up another track to the Windmill. From the Windmill it takes the path up to the northern tip of the Common, loops round to the left and follows a track to Kingsmere pond. It goes through some woods, then over some other paths, past the East Surrey Regiment monument, and back to the Windmill. It then follows Windmill Road and turns left on a main path and continues on a couple of fairly straight paths round the southern half of the Common and back to the Windmill. It then takes the same route back out of the Common to Richmond Park (except for looping round the other 2 sides of the sports field). It includes a loop round Queensmere, but this may be taken out if some distance needs to be shaved off. When back in Richmond Park the route runs alongside the road which heads to the centre of the park, but where the road curves right to head uphill to the car park, the route carries on straight on a bridle path until it reaches the road that leads back to Ham Gate. At Ham Gate it turns left and follows the path straight back to Kingston Gate car park and the finish.
