READ ABOUT HACKNEY'S PARKS AND OPEN SPACES

Hackney Environment Forum produced a number of leaflets about Hackney's parks and open spaces,
and some self-guided walks linking open spaces around the Borough.

The six walks leaflets (see WALKS CONNECTING HACKNEY'S PARKS & OPEN SPACES, below) have again been reprinted (December 2009)
and are now available at Libraries, Park Information Centres and other outlets in the borough:

Clissold Park
Springfield Park

Hackney Community Tree Nursery (Tuesdays 12-3; Fridays 9-12; first Saturday of each month 12-3)

Britannia Leisure Centre
Clissold Leisure Centre
Cllr James Library
Hackney Archives
Hackney Central Library
Hackney Museum
Homerton Library
Kings Hall Leisure Centre
London Fields Lido
Queensbridge Sports Centre
Shoreditch Library
Stamford Hill Library
Stoke Newington Library
Stoke Newington West Reservoir
Woodberry Down Community Library

Thanks to NHS Community Chest for funding the reprinting.

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WALKS CONNECTING HACKNEY'S PARKS & OPEN SPACES

A series of six self-guided walks through Hackney's Parks and Open Spaces.

The places along the route of each walk are given below – or,  if you'd like to choose a park or open space from which to start, check our
A to Z LIST OF PARKS AND OPEN SPACES to see which walk(s) include it in the route.

WALK 1WALK 2WALK 3WALK 4WALK 5WALK 6

WALK 1. River Lea to Stoke Newington – 7km / 4.5 miles
Marshgate Bridge (Homerton Road); Wick Woodland; Hackney Marsh; River Lea; Middlesex Filter Beds NR; South Millfields;
Lea Navigation; North Millfields; Springfield Park; Clapton Common; East and West Bank NR; Allens Gardens.

WALK 2. South Hackney’s Green & Open Spaces – 4.5km / 2.2 miles
Shoreditch Park; Hoxton Community Gardens; Geffrye Museum; St Mary's Garden; Fellows Courrt Estate; Haggerston Park;
Regent's Canal; London Fields; Town Hall Square. 

WALK 3. Hackney’s Canals & Southern Borders – 5km / 3  miles (circular walk: 5.8km / 3.5 miles)
Well Street Common; Victoria Park (Tower Hamlets); Hertford Union Canal; Lea Navigation; Olympic Park (once Arena Field);
Wick Woodland; Marshgate Bridge (Homerton Road).
Alternative, circular walk continues to Mabley Green; Victoria Park (Tower Hamlets); Well Street Common. 

WALK 4. Hackney’s Northern Parks & Nature Reserves – 5.2km / 3.2 miles (circular walk: 7.6km / 4.7 miles)
Clissold Park; Abney Park Cemetery NR; Stoke Newington Common; Springfield Park.
Alternative, circular walk continues to Abney Park Cemetery NR; Clissold Park. 

WALK 5. Green Chain & Open Spaces – Mare Street to Lea Valley – 5km / 3.2  miles (with detour: 5.6km / 3.9 miles)
St John's Churchyard; Clapton Square; Hackney Downs; South Millfields; Lea Navigation; North Millfields; River Lea;
Walthamstow Marshes (Waltham Forest); Springfield Park.

WALK 6. Circular – Hackney Marshes & Adjacent Green Spaces – 7.5km / 4.6 miles
Marshgate Bridge (Homerton Road); Wick Woodland; Olympic Park (once Arena Field); Mabley Green; Daubeney Green;
Hackney Marsh; East Marsh; Hackney Community Tree Nursery and Forest Garden; Marshgate Bridge (Homerton Road).

The walks are along tarmac and grass paths, mainly flat and easy walking. The leaflets provide information about steps
and alternative routes.

These leaflets were reprinted in 2010 under funding from NHS Hackney Community Chest.

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OPEN SPACES IN HACKNEY

Some leaflets are about a specific park or open space in the Borough. 
Each of these leaflets is in two parts on the website.

ABNEYEAST MARSHST. JOHN'S

ABNEY PARK CEMETERY AND NATURE RESERVE
Abney was one of seven garden cemeteries around London, which included Highgate, Tower Hamlets and Kensal Green.
The Cemetery was planted as an arboretum with a stock of over 2,000 trees and shrubs.

PART 1: Abney's Arboreteum and Trees.

PART 2: Abney's Habitats and Wildlife.

EAST MARSH, HACKNEY MARSHES

PART 1: East Marsh, History and Habitats

PART 2: East Marsh, Trees and Shrubs

ST. JOHN'S CHURCHYARD AND CLAPTON SQUARE

PART 1: St. John's Churchyard and Clapton Square

PART 2: St. John's Churchyard: it's trees and monuments

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TREES IN HACKNEY

The leaflets about trees in Hackney are of two types:

Trees of a specific open space;
Special trees, and where they can be found around the Borough.

TREES OF A SPECIFIC OPEN SPACE (see also Abney, East Marsh and St. John's, above)

HACKNEY MARSHESMABLEY GREENWICK WOODLAND

TREES OF HACKNEY MARSHES

TREES OF MABLEY GREEN

WICK WOODLAND: from Football to Foxes

SPECIAL TREES

These two leaflets go into details about the history of the species, how to identify them,
and where they can be found in Hackney.

BLACK POPLARSELMS

BLACK POPLARS
Britain's rarest native tree, Hackney holds a substantial number - particularly along the River Lea.

ELMS
Many of Britain's elm trees were destroyed as a result of Dutch Elm Disease.
Hackney is fortunate in having retained over 30 of the elms which were once so common in the parks.

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TREE ACTIVITIES

Many of the park user groups in the Borough are involved in some way with planting trees, and children
from local schools as well as volunteers from all parts of the community take part.

On Hackney Marshes, the Tree Nursery is used to propogate trees for planting out in Hackney's parks and open spaces.
The Nursery area also includes the recently established Edible Forest Garden.

The Tree Musketeers are volunteers who plant and care for trees around the Borough and raise public awareness
of the benefits of trees to the quality of life. They have their own webpages on this site, which you can visit by
clicking on their logo at the bottom of this page.

P1 P2
PLANTING TREESTREE NURSERYEDIBLE GARDENGROWING FOOD IN HACKNEY, PAGES 1 & 2 - CLICK ON THE PAGE NUMBER

PLANTING TREES IN HACKNEY'S PARKS

THE TREE NURSERY AND EDIBLE GARDEN

EDIBLE FOREST GARDEN PLAN

FUTURE FOOD – GROWING FOOD IN HACKNEY

NEW - DECEMBER 2007: FUTURE FOOD – GROWING FOOD IN HACKNEY
This leaflet is designed to be printed at A3 size, folded in half and then into thirds. This is why the title panel appears upside down.

WILDLIFE

BATSWILDLIFE

BAT MAP OF HACKNEY MARSHES: a distribution map, following recent surveys using bat detectors.

WILDLIFE OF HACKNEY MARSHES

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MAPS

HACKNEY MARSHESHACKNEY MARSHES AREA

HACKNEY MARSHES MAP

HACKNEY MARSHES AREA MAP

Other maps have been produced by the Tree Musketeers:

Tree Map of Stoke Newington Common

Tree Map of Hackney Downs

Maps of Community Orchards

For more information about the Tree Musketeers and their activities,
and to view their tree maps, click on their logo above.

HEF HOMEPAGE

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