London

London is the capital of the United Kingdom.

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• Hitchbase has some information about hitchhiking out of London

Hitchhiking out of London is pretty tricky, but not impossible - the big problem is getting onto a motorway is a bit of a challenge, once you're on the motorway, stick to the petrol stations, hitching entrance ramp to entrance ramp is quite difficult, especially in the big cities.

Hitching West or to the South West (Bristol, Devon, Cornwall)

Get the Underground to the station Chiswick Park - from there you can find the entrance to the motorways M4 - its about 5 miles to the actual entrance to the M4, but you can walk along the main road for a mile and theres an Esso petrol station that is on the corner next to a bridge with the main london traffic running above you, and you can stand in a layby nearby with a sign saying M4 west, and someone will pick you up.

Heading for Cornwall, its much faster hitching the M4 and changing to the M5 than trying to hitch the M3.

Hitching South East (Dover Docks, Channel Tunnel to France)

Get the Underground to London Bridge Station and get the commuter train to a station called Mottingham (ticket should cost around 3 UKP) - this is very close to the entrance to the M2 to Dover, head for Great Sidcup road and around 800 yards farther down the road is a set of traffic lights (theres some car showrooms just to the left), and you can hold a sign saying Dover here and try to get the cars stopped at the lights to let you jump in.