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GROWING ABNEY 3 COMMUNITIES PARK SPRINGFIELD PARK Go in through the main gate, turn left at the mansion house UPPER and we are about 200m CLISSOLD CLAPTON N C H U R C H S T CLAPTON STATION along the tarmac road PARK T O G inside the top of the park I N E W on the left (if you reach N O E a small exit S T K leading to a synagogue A kate-hyde.co.uk M RECTORY car park you’ve gone H ROAD 20 metres too far). U STOKE R STATION E5 9EF S T
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Weekday 12-10pm and HILL PARK PARK
weekends 9am-7pm ESTATE PARK
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reception as a visitor
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to the garden We think there are a lot of special things AND
about our gardens which serve our 1500
HOUSE MANOR HOUSE MANOR The garden is a 1.2 acre permaculture residents on our 1930s red brick estate. HOUSE MANOR garden, it grows food and herbal teas for Khoa who manages the allotments is This map has been produced by the Castle Café, it has an apiary with several beehives demonstrating real gold, along with all the raised beds he's made and the people
Cordwainers Grow and is based on walks we natural beekeeping, forest garden with a fox hole used yearly by the he guides to manage their own plots! But also we're very fond of the took in the summer of 2019 to and between local vixen to have her cubs, wildlife pond with many frogs and toads stuffed tiger that lives in the allotments, our wild areas, bbq and banana 4 No. who use it, a Roundwood timber shelter with cob oven, mini plots for tree in the Peace & Well being Garden, the artichokes (and of course
community growing spaces. We want to
local community, staff and climber members. the container!) in the container garden, our incredible murals. But of
highlight what they to – to make them more course most of all the people who grow here and use the gardens. TRAIL
visible so that more people get to enjoy the [email protected]
benefits they provide [email protected] (or call zoe 07891 388190) SPACES GREEN The
We have marked a suggested route and included details of some other gardens and
spaces in the union that are well worth a visit
or joining longer term. presents
The Union of Hackney Gardens is an 3 4 HACKNEY GARDENS HACKNEY UNION GROWING ROBIN HOOD OF
association of community gardens, COMMUNITIES GARDEN orchards and wildlife areas. We aim to SPRINGFIELD THE protect, support and promote each other. Tuesdays 10am-4pm Community Garden open to everyone (closed December and January) in Upper Clapton. Fruit trees, herbs, Instagram: @gardenunion forest garden, pizza oven, sand pit. Growing Communities is a community- led veg box scheme aiming to create Named after a famous pub on Big Hill. a sustainable localised food system by growing fruit and vegetables in its At the bottom of Big Hill. patchwork farms across Hackney and Dagenham. The growing space at Springfield Park is one of nine sites [email protected] in Hackney. It has a 10 metre long sage border next to our polytunnel @hoodGarden that is alive with bees in the summer
[email protected] Growing Communities’ office: 0207 5027388
Eleven hectares of fringed ponds and dykes, always free and accessible to everyone. Woodberry Wetlands supports lots of species throughout the year, from wintering populations of pochard, shoveler, tufted and gadwall ducks, to reed warbler and bunting who have migrated from Africa for spring and summer. Managed by the London Wildlife Trust.