A stroll to Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park WALK 4

Top tips and healthy hints

Make walking an adventure

Walking is a good way for you, your family and friends to discover the local area. The East End is packed with green spaces, interesting buildings and hidden corners.

If you have children or grandchildren, then why not turn this walk into an adventure for them? Tell stories along the way and ask them to look out for “Children need paths to explore… interesting wildlife or sights. Tower paths down the garden, the way to Hamlets Cemetery is the perfect place school, corridors through the bracken for an adventure – a biodiverse habitat or long grass.” full of butter!ies, birds, beetles, spiders Bruce Chatwin, travel writer and fungi.

Step-by-Step The Step-by-Step programme is a 10-week walking action plan designed in conjunction with St Stephen’s Health Centre in William Place, just o" Roman Road. As you walk, you’ll be taking steps towards actively managing your health and wellbeing. And you’ll discover more about your local area too. Weekly Walks Step-by-Step St. Stephen’s For more information, contact Zahra Aden at Health Centre St Stephen’s on [email protected] or 020 8980 1760.

Weekly Walks St. Stephen’s Health Centre Devised by Graham Barker of Walk East (walkeast.org) for Tower Hamlets Active Travel Team, 2010. Take a walk on the wild side 5 Facing the #rst corner of 8 Keep left of the map board and Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park is a secret Archibald Open Space, cross snake on with the path, past woodland in the East End. Opened in and walk down Hamlets Way – impressive tall gravestones, until 1841 as one of the ‘magni#cent seven’ an alleyway with two tower you reach the Soane Centre and cemeteries, it was closed blocks on your right. A short way lodge. Leave the Cemetery by the to burials in 1966. Since then it has along, head into the Cemetery main gate, and walk right, to the evolved as a local nature reserve, with through the #rst side gate. end of Southern Grove. its woodlands, ponds and meadows providing a habitat for bats, woodpeckers 6 Once inside the Cemetery, 9 At Bow Road, turn left and just and wild !owers. Its mossy Victorian turn left and loop around on before tube station cross gravestones give a fascinating insight the wide path. You’ll pass the over on the two-part pedestrian into East End history. grave of Will Crooks MP and crossing. On the far pavement, the Poplar War Memorial. Your turn right and take the second path curves slowly to the right, turning left into Tredegar Square. 1 Walk around the back of St 3 At the running man statue, with the railway appearing to Stephen’s Health Centre and turn right to join Mostyn Grove. your left. 10 As you emerge into the square head left of the tall tower block. There, turn left and slope down itself, turn right alongside the Behind Brodick House, take the under the railway through Tom 7 Keep on the main path – railings and go through the gate diagonal path through the green Thumb’s Arch. Head straight on, ignoring the exit gate to your into the gardens. At the far gate, and follow the fencing along. At past a single blue bollard. The left. At the crossroads with grey turn right along Morgan Street. the playgroup, turn left to join paved path soon opens out into metal Millennium Trail marker By the Morgan Arms cross and Vernon Road and go right, over Addington Road. No. 14 (pointing ahead) turn head left under the Coborn Road cobbles, to reach Tredegar Road. right. Your path slopes down railway bridge. 4 At the bottom of Addington Road and then up, and after the 2 Turn left on Tredgar Road, over you come to Bow Road. Turn right, next crossroads you come to 11 Turn right into Tredegar Road. Cardigan Road and then cross at past the police station. Just before a map board. Go over the zebra crossing and the pedestrian crossing. Walk past Alfred Street, cross at the two-part head up St Stephen’s Road. Just the convenience store and take crossing to . after Clayhall Court, turn right to the next right into Lacey Mews. Turn right, then #rst left into follow the slabbed pathway back Head to the park at the end. Wellington Way. to St. Stephen’s Health Centre.

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Spot interesting gravestones, including Cutty Sark Listen to the lively birdsong and enjoy the wild Catch a glimpse of the old Bryant & May match Duck as you head through Tom Thumb’s Arch, builder John Willis and politician Will Crooks. "owers in the Cemetery. factory from Mostyn Grove gardens. under the .

Pop into the Soane Centre to #nd out about bat Stand in the centre of Tredegar Square to get the Look out for the horse stables behind Bow Road Spot the memorial clock to su!ragette walks, nature walks and historical tours. best view of all four terraces. police station, built in 1903. Minnie Lansbury.

Post a letter in the early Victorian pillar-box in Find the old boundary stone for Mile End Old Use this as a route to reach Bow Road tube Stroll along Hamlets Way, a green walkway Tredegar Square. Town at 20 Morgan Street. station. beside the Cemetery.

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