Hiking routes around London

London Outer Orbital Path passes through London: 24 sections with 244 km mapped in all, nearly all of it within 30 km. Capital Ring passes through London: 16 sections with 125 km mapped in all, nearly all of it within 30 km. Of the routes listed here, the longest is Greenwich Meridian Trail, 395 km from Peacehaven, East Sussex to Sand le Mere, East Yorkshire. At least 167 local routes here are under 10 km. TfL looks after 3 of the 12 routes listed here.

• London Outer Orbital PathRegional · LOOP · 24 sections240 km within 30 km · Erith to PurfleetTfL Transport for London
• Capital RingRegional · 16 sections124 km within 30 kmTfL
• Thames PathNational · TP · 2 sections95 km within 30 km · 318 km in allNational Trails
• Green Chain WalkRegional · G-C · 37 sections91 km within 30 km · Nunhead to ThamesmeadTfL
• Greenwich Meridian TrailRegional · GMT85 km within 30 km · 395 km in all · Peacehaven, East Sussex to Sand le Mere, East YorkshireGraham & Hilda Heap
• Hertfordshire WayRegional74 km within 30 km · 311 km in all
• Grand Union Canal WalkRegional · 7 sections66 km within 30 km · 273 km in all
• Jubilee GreenwayRegional · JG · 11 sections62 km within 30 km · Buckingham Palace to Woolwich Foot TunnelTfL
• European long distance path E2 westInternational · E2 · 56 sections55 km within 30 km · 4,093 km in allEuropean Ramblers Association
• Thames Path - northern bankRegional · TPnth46 km within 30 km · Teddington Lock Footbridge to Greenwich Foot Tunnel
• London to WalsinghamRegional · LW · 10 sections43 km within 30 km · 269 km in all · S Magnus the Martyr, Lower Thames Street, London to Walsingham Abbey
• Hertfordshire Chain WalkRegional · 17 sections43 km within 30 km · 143 km in all

Each name opens the route on Waymarked Trails.

• Routes from Waymarked Trails, which draws the hiking routes mapped on OpenStreetMap (data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); counted on Oct 19, 2026.
• Only routes someone has mapped as a route on OpenStreetMap are counted. Signposted paths no one has mapped, and walks without waymarks, are not.
• Waymarked Trails lists at most 100 routes for an area at once, and parts of this one hold more, so local routes late in the alphabet are missing from the counts and the list.
• Lengths within 30 km are measured on Waymarked Trails’ simplified lines and take in a route’s branches and variants; a path two routes share counts for each. A route’s length in all follows its main line along the mapped ways, and those marked “about” come from the simplified lines.

How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Hiking routes