In medieval times Clerkenwell was an area of fields on the outskirts of the City of London, dominated by monastic institutions. The monasteries were all closed in the 1530s when ... Read more
De Beauvoir lies in today's London Borough of Hackney and is still sometimes called 'Kingsland' because Henry VIII hunted here. It is distinct from but nestled up close to Dalston, ... Read more
De Beauvoir lies in today's London Borough of Hackney and is still sometimes called 'Kingsland' because Henry VIII hunted here. It is distinct from but nestled up close to Dalston, ... Read more
De Beauvoir lies in today's London Borough of Hackney and is still sometimes called 'Kingsland' because Henry VIII hunted here. It is distinct from but nestled up close to Dalston, ... Read more
A 'Walk Hackney' event Bounded betwixt Clapton, Dalston and Shacklewell, Hackney Downs, the highest piece of open ground within 4 miles of central London, has, like other parts of Hackney, ... Read more
Hoxton and Shoreditch today are often known as fashionable parts of east London, areas to eat out in and go clubbing. It's also an area of astonishing contrasts from post ... Read more
Hoxton and Shoreditch today are often known as fashionable parts of east London, areas to eat out in and go clubbing. It's also an area of astonishing contrasts from post ... Read more
A 'Walk Hackney' event This walk investigates how the Rhodes family developed their Dalston estate, west of London Fields, into Hackney suburbia from 1807 into the 1870s. The walk focuses on ... Read more
A 'Walk Hackney' event, led by Sean Gubbins. This longer walk will tell you about the westernmost part of today’s Hackney, where, from the beginning of the 19th century, open ... Read more
A circular walk from Angel tube, exploring the influences of water sources. Islington and Clerkenwell developed around a hilly area with an abundance of water from natural springs, wells and ... Read more
Turbulent centuries of monasteries, vengeance, courthouses, prisons, murder, social reformers, a bomb plot and more…. Clerkenwell lies just outside the old City, originally the location of the monastic houses from ... Read more
A 'Walk Hackney' event, led by Sean Gubbins. This walk takes you through the area east of Mare Street to trace where Conrad Loddiges and Sons’ Hackney Botanical Nursery was with ... Read more