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That's the route I run but I've never gone right towards barking, I normally go flats, roding valley, up round hollow ponds and back. Can i nick a strava route from you?
Tenderloin-
I haven't gone to Barking for years, but I ended up on King Alfred Way once. I'll see if I can find it.
If you have a look on a map, you go down that alleyway, cross Romford Road, and then follow Grantham Rd. do a left down Gainsborough, left at the end, under the railway, then Stevenage Rd, Southend Road, Northfield, Wall End Rd. straight on to the bottom of Park Ave, left up Flanders, then onto the footpath. left at the end, then follow that to King Alfred way. Hopefully that makes sense!
Here's a GPX I just created. Back up through Barking, west of Ilford, then back over the A406. I might do this on Sunday morning, it's been years since I went that way
doubleodavey
My routes from the past couple of weeks have taken me right past the new morgue being built on Wanstead Flats - I haven't been past it since they started building it though.
There's a footpath round the back of the cemetery over the road that has very few people that ever use it, you can turn left to go to the Roding Valley Way (pretty deserted) or right to go under the train tracks towards Barking (deserted and desolate).
I love those sorts of surroundings for some reason.