Walk notes: Housman’s bookshop, Caledonian Road, to Dalston. 30/12/08

Caledonian Road, north , over the canal, right at Carnegie Street, left up Charlotte Terrace (ie round the Barnsbury Estate, right up Copenhagen Street passing Barnard Park on the left, across traffic lights, up Cloudesley Place, then left up Cloudesley Street, across Cloudesley Square, turn right at Richmond Avenue (away from Tony Blair’s old house in Richmond Crescent, turn left up Liverpool Road (would have been more interesting to continue north at Richmond Avenue into Lonsdale Square and then…) then right at Barnsbury Street, across Upper Street (passing the Islington Town Hall on my left), down Braes Street, across New North Road, into Canonbury Grove, then straight on into Douglas Road South, picking up the footpath (ie no cars, but called Douglas Road North) along the line of the New River Walk, emerging onto St Pauls Road opposite the Bastille pub; cross St P’s road passing the Bastille on my right, into Northampton Park, turn left at end up Newington Green Road, over North London line railway and turn right into Mildmay Grove North, straight on across Mildmay Park, and down to St Jude’s on the junction with King Henry’s Walk.