Introduction
Mum, Dad and I walked another section of the London Loop between Enfield Lock and Chigwell.
Water
The first part of the walk was along the Turkey Brook to the Lee Navigation. We actually walked this last time too.
The Navigation is basically a canal built alongside the River Lea. We crossed the bridge by the lock, noting that nobody's done anything to repair the burned-out pub yet.
The route then led us a little way along the canal, ground we'd already covered when we did the Lea Valley Walk. Sadly we had to turn off just before reaching the power station, heading over to the river proper which we also crossed.
Reaching a road, we met our second boarded-up pub of the day, then crossed to a footpath which led steeply uphill.
Countryside
It got all countryside again. From the hill there were impressive views of the two reservoirs, which apparently supply a quarter of London's water. That makes them pretty wet. After that we passed by the Gilwell Park Scout camp (and headquarters of the organisation), which is well equipped with CCTV so that leaders can record footage of little boys.
Back to civilisation
The last bit of the walk was through suburbs, then across the Central Line, around a large lake where they'd dug up gravel to build the M11, past an enormous sports centre complex, across the aforesaid M11 on another busy road, and so to the station and home.
