LONDON TREE WALKS

Arboreal Ambles Around the Green Metropolis

Paul Wood

The first walking guide to reveal the full, amazing variety of London’s urban arboretum

Paul Wood’s brilliant and acclaimed London’s Street Trees has sold 5,000 copies in three printings, is a fixture in London’s bookshops and museum and gallery gift shops, and was republished in April 2020 in a new, revised and expanded edition.

One of its most popular features is the handful of ‘tree walks’ at the back, while the author is still leading his own guided ‘street tree walks’ every weekend somewhere in the capital.

So now here is a whole book of tree walks around the capital – some for an hour or two, several to while away a whole day. They take you to ancient woodlands in North London, on a tour of rock music landmarks in Fulham and Chelsea, to celebrate the work of a pioneering female mayor in beautifying her impoverished borough - not least by some determined tree planting - and on the trail of a circus elephant buried beneath an oak tree in Ealing. How better to appreciate this gloriously green capital?

Paul Wood writes the popular blog www.thestreettree.com. He is the author of London’s Street Trees, also published by Safe Haven, and London Is a Forest, appears regularly in the media, is a regular speaker on arboreal subjects, and lives in north London.

ISBN 978 1 9160453 4 7
224pp
198 x 129 mm
paperback
£14.99

‘London Tree Walks by Paul Wood takes you on a series of wonderful adventures through the capital. Wood has written a great deal about the forest of trees that grow on our streets, and this book points out quite how many different ones you can see even on relatively short trips.’ Isabel Hardman, Spectator

‘A lovely book for anyone who enjoys exploring London on foot, but is looking for new routes and a new focus for their wanderings.’ Clare Wadd, Caught by the River

‘An interesting way of adding a layer of information to a journey — my own walks around Docklands and central London now come with an added level of interest about what I may have once walked past without really knowing what that tree was, or why it’s there.’ IanVisits