Monastic Past to Victorian Residential: For a built-up urban area, Clerkenwell has a perhaps surprising number of green spaces, many of them named as ‘squares’, but not always square in ... Read more
Part of the Clerkenwell and Islington Guides June 2021 Festival of Walks We will walk the borough border along Balls Pond Road and Southgate Road, passing the areas of Mildmay, ... Read more
Part of the Clerkenwell and Islington Guides June 2021 Festival of Walks A team of volunteers has researched the lives of the people who were buried in the crypt of ... Read more
How a natural river, wells and springs, plus both a manmade 'river' and a canal shaped this area. A circular walk from Angel tube, exploring the influences of water sources. ... Read more
A 'Walk Hackney' event. This longer walk will tell you about the westernmost part of today’s Hackney, where, from the beginning of the 19th century, open fields used by Londoners ... Read more
A 'Walk Hackney' event. This walk takes you through the area east of Mare Street to trace where Conrad Loddiges and Sons’ Hackney Botanical Nursery was with its Grand Palm House, ... Read more
A 'Walk Hackney' event. Discover the history of Clapton, one of Hackney’s hamlets; visited by revolutionaries and royalty; home to writers; where Garrick performed; refuge for orphans. Led by Sean ... Read more
Medieval to modern - the monasteries of Clerkenwell and their legacy today. In medieval times Clerkenwell was an area of fields on the outskirts of the City of London, dominated ... Read more
‘Beating the Bounds’ to mark and confirm the borders between parishes is an ancient tradition, where the border was literally paced out, agreed and marked with stones each year. This ... Read more
Free shorter 'taster' walks all day in Islington, Camden, the City and Westminster This event is usually run annually by the four London borough guiding associations. In 2020 it was ... Read more
A ‘Walk Hackney’ event This walk tells the history of Haggerston, the northern-most and once the most rural, undeveloped, part of the ancient parish of Shoreditch. The walk will also go ... Read more