Walking Tour – Clerkenwell’s Monastic Quarter
Farringdon Station , United KingdomMedieval 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
Walking the Hackney/Islington border from Dalston to the Regent’s Canal
De Beauvoir Square De Beauvoir Square, London, United Kingdom‘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
London Local Guiding Day
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
Haggerston
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
Walking the Hackney/Islington border from the Rosemary Branch to Old St
The Rosemary Branch 2 Shepperton Road N1, London, United Kingdom‘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
Upper Clapton
A ‘Walk Hackney’ event Climb to Hackney’s highest point. Along the way we will take in Stoke Newington Common, Clapton Common, Hackney’s oldest surviving Church, see inside the former Agapemonite ... Read more
Hackney Downs
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
Historic Finsbury
Barbican Tube Aldersgate Street, LondonA fascinating walking exploration of an area immediately bordering the old City of London to the north. Now part of the borough of Islington, this area and adjacent Clerkenwell formed ... Read more
Kingsland to Newington Green
A 'Walk Hackney' event Along the western fringes of Hackney, this walk takes you from Kingsland to Newington Green, going through four ancient parishes. Once the hunting ground of kings, ... Read more
Clerkenwell’s Mediaeval Monasteries
Farringdon Station , United KingdomIn 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
Shacklewell
A 'Walk Hackney' event This walk starts off in Dalston and takes you through Shacklewell to end at West Hackney Church on Stoke Newington Road. Shacklewell, with its village green, ... Read more