Walking Guides

This walk starts and finishes at Clapton Common by the Church of St. Thomas, and explores the area around the common, through Springfield Park and down to the River Lea.

Duration 1-2 hours // Distance 2 miles.
This walk takes you through an interesting and varied cross-section of Hackney.

Currently unavailable.
This walk which begins at Abney Park Cemetery, leads you down Stoke Newington Church Street and ends in Clissold Park.

Duration: 2 hours
Shoreditch is an ancient London parish and Hoxton was a hamlet just outside the City walls.

Duration: 1.5 hours // Distance: 1.5 miles
This walk traces a route through the old crossroad settlement of Kingsland and the erstwhile hamlet of Dalston, explores the Victorian suburban developments of southern Shacklewell, leads through the colourful and exuberant market at Ridley Road to return to the starting point on Kingsland High Street.

This walk follows a section of the old Market Porters Route along which produce from market gardens east of Mare Street was once transported to the city.

Discover Hackney’s Heritage Partnership funded a pilot for a series of walks for children, families and adults in Hackney Wick and the area that borders the London 2012 Olympic Games site.

by Ann Robey
This walk takes you round the long, leafy strip of historic common land in Upper Clapton, Hackney.

By Monica Blake and
John Finn
This walk takes you around the northern part of Haggerston.

By Monica Blake
This walk along Lower Clapton Road includes two Conservation Areas: Clapton Pond and Clapton Square.

By Margaret Willes
This walk takes you around places that were horticulturally important in the history of Hoxton.

By Julia Lafferty
This walk follows the route of a medieval thoroughfare through Upper and Lower Clapton and looks at the area’s fascinating horticultural history down the centuries.