‘Beating the Bounds’ from King’s Cross to Farringdon

** CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS, APOLOGIES FOR SHORT NOTICE **

A historic walk winding either side of the border between Camden and Islington boroughs – also the route of the now-buried River Fleet

‘Beating the Bounds’ around the borders between parishes, land ownerships and similar is an ancient tradition, where the boundary was literally paced out and marked with stones each year. This walk traces today’s border between Camden and Islington, with detours to explore nearby signs of previous boundaries of parishes, vestries, water conduits and historic landowners.

Along the way, we’ll see varied architecture from pretty Georgian and Victorian terraces to old burial grounds, narrow passages that were once slums and restored industrial buildings; see if we can spot historic boundary markers; meet mediaeval monks, Tudor and Victorian philanthropists, a dynasty of 19C architects and builders; and hear of lost wells and pleasure gardens.

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