CoolTan Arts Largactyl Shuffle – Garden Walk

Join CoolTan Arts Largactyl Shuffle for our Garden Walk, a fun guided cultural walk for mental and physical wellbeing. Setting off from outside the Maudsley Hospital, we will explore the delights of Camberwell’s best loved green spaces, see the community greenhouses, enjoy the summer blooms and have a picnic lunch together.

Start: Outside the main entrance of Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, SE5 8AZ
Ends: Myatt’s Fields, Camberwell, SE5 9LP

Our walk leaders will give talks on the fascinating social history of Ruskin Park and Myatt’s Fields Park, which we will visit along the way. Myatt’s Fields was designed by Fanny Wilkinson, one of Britain’s first professional landscape gardeners and a campaigner for women’s suffrage. It is also famous for being a military hospital during the First World War, where the writer Vera Brittain worked as a nurse.
There will also be talks on edible flowers, urban farms and art therapy. Everyone is welcome, so please bring your family and friends, as well as some food for the picnic.

Please meet outside the entrance of Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, SE5 8AZ, at 11.45am. The walk leaders wear orange high-viz vests and rucksacks. The full walk is about 3 miles and will last approximately 4 hours. Please wear comfortable shoes and bring your own water.

Largactyl Shuffle walks are suitable for all levels of walking and are accessible to wheelchair users and people with disabilities. You can join us for whatever tickles your fancy feet, whether it is half a mile, one mile or the full distance!!

Call CoolTan Arts on 07985 658443 if you cannot find the walking group on the day.