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Get Hackney Healthy Hackney Wild Walks This is an interesting Haggerston to Hoxton: walk with lots to see! You can bring your scooter as there are no steps. It’s 2.1km if you take a giant snake, a stone circle the Overground back to the start or 2.6km if & a secret garden you walk. Start at Haggerston On a black silent night that a silver moon crowned, Station, you should see A snake emerged from the Underground. Stonebridge Gardens next A turquoise monster, it made hardly a sound, to the station. Go through As it slithered its way through Haggerston town. the gate to find a Down Kingsland Road it slowly unwound, surprising slithery sight. Til it went to sleep on a grassy mound. You can climb and clamber, jump up and down, On his coils coiled around this little playground. Haggerston Station STEAN STREET E8 London Borough of Hackney After the second bridge, take the ramp back up behind you onto Queensbridge Road. What do you think of the huge Shoreditch sign? Under the railway is a beautiful peace mural designed by local children – how many symbols can you see? SHOREDITCH You’ve already done 300m. Turn left and take the ramp on the right down onto the tow path. You will go under Ones, twos, threes and fours, two bridges – Can you count canoes, WHISTON watch out for paddles and oars? ROAD E2 cyclists! Ting! London Borough of Hackney Ting! Haggerston Park KINGSLAND Stone This stone circle Circle ROAD E2 Turn right London Borough of Hackney must have some up Appleby, a treat history, but now is in store! Alternate to us it’s just a return route up St Mary's Secret mystery! Kingsland Road Garden, let's go and explore. There are toilets if needed, and nice places to sit, Many bugs to find, plants and flowers Leave the park by Secret Garden to sniff. the gate next to Hoxton Station, our and St Saviour’s Priory. final destination! Adventure Pop round the Playground corner and look up Can you see the St Saviour’s Priory to see a lamb! gardens behind the Geoffrye Museum? Hoxton Station And now you can jump on a train (under 11 Along Dunloe Street is the year olds are free!) and beautiful St Chad's Church, what see what you can spot do you think it was like here Key: when it was new 150 years ago? from the Overground, Start or walk back up St Chad’s Kingsland Road. Each pink line = approx 100m With great thanks to Colin Shelbourn and Iain Peters, who created the original Lake District Wild Walks that inspired this project, and to Cath Prisk of Outdoor People (and her dog Charlie) who researched and mapped the walks. Words were written by Cath Prisk and Kathryn Scott..

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