The Walk to School Week event began in Waltham Forest in 1993 and has since been taken up in most parts of the UK and also internationally. In Waltham Forest all primary schools take part – about 70 schools with 23,000 children
And who would not want to let their child walk to school in the London Borough of Waltham Forest? This dedicated route for pedestrians leads to Mission Grove Primary School (it's just across the road once you get to these steps) and is just the kind of attractive, safe, off-road facility which children and their parents need to wean them off car travel. (Mission Grove E17)
