Flood Relief London Borough of Hackney Old River Lea. The eastern boundary of Hackney – at its most natural along Hackney HACKNEY Channel Other London Boroughs Marshes. Tidal up to Lea Bridge Road – important for spawning fish; herons and cormorants MARSHES feed along the river; nesting birds include kingfisher, coot, moorhen, and swan. Over-wintering ODA = Olympic Delilvery Authority birds include teal and tufted duck. Mature trees along the river bank include sycamore, ash, Designated as Common London Bus Routes willow, plane and black poplar. Plans to stop the river being tidal as part of Olympics Land and Metropolitan WALTHAMSTOWNATURE RESERVE MARSH WATERWORKS www.tfl.gov.uk/buses/ construction. Loss of muddy bank habitat and greater risk of flooding. Open Space. Stretches & LEYTON MARSH NATURE RESERVE along Old River Lea and 48 55 56 (ESSEX FILTER BEDS) N Wick Woodland, which LEA BRIDGE RD East Marsh. Amenity grass used for park football and other sports, and as a are designated as Sites Weir Pitch-&-Putt a feeding ground by gulls, thrushes, woodpigeons and starlings. Surrounded by trees Old R r Le Golfcourse of Metropolitan Importance ive including some 100-year-old, rare, black poplars along Spitalfields edge, a row of for Nature Conservation. 40-year-old ash along Ruckholt Road, trees along the river bank including flowering MIDDLESEX FILTER BEDS O NATURE RESERVE ld cherry, and specimen trees such as mulberry, weeping poplar, Indian horse Friends R iv chestnut, willow-leaf pear and southern beech. Some trees (including ash along Bridge er L e Ruckholt Road) and grass pitches to go for Olympics car and coach parking. Compiled by: a Anne Woollett and SOUTH Meadow ood Chestnut Annie Chipchase. North W Ea MILLFIELDS Wood st Contact: W Cow Bridge o White Hart Field. Across Ruckholt Road from East Marsh. Reduced Lea Nav o [email protected] (Hackne N changing rooms d in size and trees cut down when the A12 was built. Mounds round J ub SPITALFIELDS the edges were created to prevent illegal occupation. Colonised by Designed by Mike Trier. i le HACKNEY plants and some rare invertebrates. A few recently planted trees. Based on Collins mapping - igat e y C W MARKET Lost to Olympics land bridge. www.collinsmaps.com ion o MARSHES ut) o K d Weekes and Morris Fields. Small sections of Common Land near i n W MAIN g Lea Interchange. Lost to Olympics precinct. f F o r i i o s Main Marsh. Large area of amenity grassland laid en MARSH h d d EAST out for park football. Surrounded by mature trees Bridge to s e Clapton Park W r MARSH planted when the Marshes came into public o White Bridge Temple Mills. Sports areas close to road junctions: Estate o ownership in 1894. Areas of planted trees from d to East Marsh Land to be lost 1960s, shrubs, and longer grass. to ODA from 2010 Eastway Sports Centre. Sports Hall built in 1970s; pitches and amenity grassland, and Yew Wood LBH Changing Depot BMX track. Lots of trees including mature Wick Woodland. Edged with mature ash and native black Rowan rooms planes, hornbeams planted in 1970s, 308 W15 Eastway Sports Centre GREEN Dip Wood poplar. Mainly planted in 1996 with native trees, including DAUBENEY and fine catalpa (Indian bean native black poplars (grown specially and now over 5 metres tree). Memorial to young men Crescent 308 tall), apple, alder, aspen and prunus; and lots of shrubs and P WHITE M11 Wood HART from Hackney Wick who were bushes – rose, cornus, alder buckthorn and willow. Flowers RUCKHOLT RD FIELD killed in Second World War. such as speedwell and buttercup. 308 W15 Marshgate A12 OAD Eastway Cycle Circuit. Large, Bridge R Tree Nursery & undulating area built on Victorian Arena Field. Along Lea Navigation with thin strip joining N Edible Forest Gdn O LEE CONSERVANCY RD rubble. Hills give good views Field to Waterden Road. Local open space for Wick Village. T ER WICK over the Lower Lea Valley. Old concrete footbridge from Gainsborough School. Hedge M HO WOODLAND ROUTE Eastway Cycle Circuit Young trees, lots of grassland. round the edge; shrubs include rare dwarf elder. 236 276 Land lost to ODA 236 276 308 from 2007 Permanently lost as open space for Olympics in 2007. HILL MORRIS & Allotments CROSS WATERDEN ROAD S2 MARSH MABLEY WEEKES The Lower Lea Valley Lea Navigation (Hackney Cut). From Lea Bridge KENWORTHY FIELDS Old River Lea GREEN EAST A wildlife corridor from River Thames Weir to Old Ford Lock. Built in 1768 to allow boats to the countryside, providing contact HACKNEY to bypass the meandering and tidal River Lea. Lee S2 ARENA with nature in the heart of the city. Site Y 388 Valley Walk with towpath and open areas at Arena A 6 of Metropolitan Importance for Nature W 23 AY FIELD Hackney R 0 Stadium Field and Wick Woodland. O 3 TW Conservation. Home to kingfisher (a HOMERTON T WICK O 26 AS species of national significance), E VILLAGE Lea Navigation M (Hackney Cut) ROAD native black poplar, dwarf elder, and 2 1 grey heron (a species of London-wide For more information about Hackney Marshes 276 A BULLY POINT significance). and the impact of the 2012 Olympics, see NATURE Distinctive local character with a www.hackneyenvironment.org.uk RESERVE WICK ROADS2 variety of habitats such as woodland, For general information about the fauna & HACKNEY WICK grassland, scrub, open water, mud CASSLAND RD banks and reed beds. flora of Hackney Marshes, see the leaflet 26 30 388 CARPENTER’S ROAD 0 ½ mile 1km “The Wildlife of Hackney Marshes”. 276.