Walking The London Loop: Stanmore Common to South Oxhey

View to West London and the Wembley arch from Bentley Priory Open space

Start: Stanmore Common Car Park, HA7 3HQ
Finish: Oxhey Woods Car Park, Oxhey Drive South, Watford, HA6 3EX
Distance: 9.2 km (5.7 miles)
Elevation change: + 103m / - 120m. Net -17m
GPX File: get via Buy Me a Coffee
Other routes touched (walk): Bentley Priory Circular Walk
Other routes touched (cycle): N/A
London Coal Duty Posts: 50, plus 49 and 51 are just off the route
OS Trig Pillar: TP6393 - The Kiln
Pubs / Cafes on route: The Case is Altered, Old Redding, Harrow, HA3 6SE
Map: OS Explorer Map (173) London North, The City, West End, Enfield, Ealing, Harrow & Watford
Guidebook: The London Loop: Recreational Path Guide
Links: Cycling The London Loop, London Loop - Transport for London, London Loop - Wikipedia, London Loop - Long Distance Walkers Association
- Stanmore Common, Bentley Priory Museum, Harrow Weald Common, Grim’s Dyke, South Oxhey, Oxhey Woods

The latest of our short walks along the London Loop took us from Stanmore Common to South Oxhey. As with any trip on the London Loop, Colin Saunders’ book is the definitive guide so I’ll leave it to that book to provide the route description.

Of particular interest to us (well me, the wife comes for the walk) were the additional things to bag along the way:

The WW2 Pill Box on Bentley Priory Open Space
The Kiln OS Trig Pillar on Harrow Weald Common
The summit of Harrow Weald Common (150m)
Coal Duty Post 50: sometimes visible from the path but obscured by bushes when we were there.
Coal Duty Post 49 and 51: Just off the route, but we did them as a drive-by on route to the start.
The London Borough High Point of Hillingdon: Just off the route, but we did it as a drive-by on route to the start.