Capital Ring Walk Section 5 - Streatham to Wimbledon

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 We took on London’s Capital Ring Walk Section 5 on a sweltering hot day (34 degrees celcius) in the capital. This 9km walk from Streatham Common to Wimbledon Park is a great city walk featuring some beautiful and quiet residential streets, some cool little alleyways and 3 really large public parks:

  • Tooting Bec Common

  • Wandsworth Common

  • Wimbledon Park



The Capital Ring is a 176km (78mile) circular walking route across London. It is divided into 15 sections but it can be started at almost any point. The route stretches from Woolwich in the South East borough of Greenwich, to Becton District Park, in East London borough of Newham.


Check out our virtual walking tour of London's Capital Ring Walk Section 5 from Streatham to Wimbledon video on our Skint Adventure YouTube channel.



We used the Go Jauntly Walking app for this walk, which worked quite well for directions, but had a few shortcomings, the main two being that the sign up/ login page didn't work so you're unable to save routes and progress; and the integrated map is mostly static and doesn't update your location in real-time.


We hope to work our way through all the different sections of the Captial Ring until we've eventually completed the full ring and we'll keep you up to date on our progress here on the blog, so make sure you subscribe to the blog and our Skint Adventure YouTube channel for regular updates.



Location: Streatham, London, UK

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