Into the Northern Heights – Bowes Park to Southgate

In the footsteps on Thomas Burke’s Outer Circle – Rambles in Remote London (1921) It was good to finally complete the walk I’d set out on in February which I had to abandon just past Wood Green due to the heavy rain. I picked up the route from the War memorial at Bowes Park and headed for Broomfield Park – the original destination following a comment on YouTube that Broomfield House was being demolished. Parts of the house dated from the 1550s but it’d been extensively rebuilt over the centuries then ravaged by a number of fires since 1984. It was now beyond restoration. A few of the walls were still visible through the scaffolding that surrounded the ruins.I’d brought some notes on Southgate so headed up Cannon Hill past one of London’s oldest surviving thatched houses. Thomas Burke had mentioned The Cherry Tree pub in his account of the journey through Southgate in The Outer Circle published in 1921. I logged the old coaching inn but foolishly missed the 800-year old oak tree in the…

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