GOC London has visited Wimbledon Common and Richmond Park in Southwest London on several occasions.  These urban green spaces are amongst the largest in the world; Richmond Park is 3 times the size of New York City's Central Park. They offer a variety of long walk options of an almost continuous rural nature, although lying entirely within London. Both spaces are important for nature, including insect life and rare bogland.

Today's walk will be a variant starting at New Malden rather than Wimbledon and making several detours within the wide-open spaces to visit particular points of interest, including 'Caesar's Camp' - one of many such named, actually an Iron Age hill fort. In Richmond Park we will follow a different route from the one we have taken before, via the southwestern part of the park and visiting the Isabella plantation This is an area of the park fenced off from deer and therefore with more a greater variety of plant life.