Welcome to interactive London Microguides site. Over the next four weeks, we will take the ingredients that make our capital so sensational, and incorporate them within an interactive map that details the best of the city.

Each week, we celebrate a different aspect of our unique capital, beginning with a London-wide guide to the city’s finest green spaces. From the best parks, riverbanks and canal-sides, to hidden gardens, birdwatching, cycling, horse-riding and untamed greenery.

If you like to plan things online, then return to this section each week for more interactive content, tips and advice. Alternatively, alternatively, buy The Times each Saturday over the next month for free copies of the four indispensable microguide maps that will give you an unbeatable, portable way to get the most out of London.

You may find our choices quirky or disagree with us completely. If so, then please give us your advice or corrections by email: wildlondon@thetimes.co.uk.

Next week we move into Central London for a credit crunch-defying round-up of London¹s best bargains, from cultural days out to glamour shopping on a shoestring.