Regent's Canal from Little Venice

The walk starts at Browning’s Pool in Little Venice, where colourful houseboats are moored and small cafés float on the water. The canal then passes villas with gardens, runs along the northern edge of Regent’s Park and past the zoo’s aviary. At one tunnel you briefly have to detour onto the street, but the route is well signposted. The towpath is narrow and also used by cyclists, so stay alert.

Background

Little Venice is an affluent residential district in North West London, England, around the junction of the Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal, the Regent's Canal, and the entrance to Paddington Basin. The junction, also known as Little Venice and Browning's Pool, forms a triangular shape basin designed to allow long canal boats to turn around. Many of the buildings in the vicinity are Regency white painted stucco terraced town houses and taller blocks (mansions) in the same style. The area is 2.5 miles (4.0 km) west-north-west of Charing Cross and immediately north-west of Paddington. The Little Venice ward of the City of Westminster had 11,040 residents in 2015. Warwick Avenue runs through the area, which is also served by a tube station of the same name.

From Wikipedia: “Little Venice”, licence CC BY-SA 4.0