The official notice confirming a new station in the Lea Valley appears in The Times today. Meridian Water Station is due to open on Sunday 19 May next year. This will replace Angel Road which is not very handy for walkers. The new Meridian Water Station, between Ponders End Station and Northumberland Park Station, will […]

An exhibition called Raw Materials: Textiles takes a new look at the Lea Valley’s industrial heritage. The venue is the Nunnery Galley which is found down an alley in Bow. The building is the former St Catherine’s Convent dating from 1866. It was a Benedictine community although confusingly its cafe is called the Carmelite Cafe. […]

London City Island, or Goodluck Hope Peninsula as it used to be called, will one day be part of the Lea Valley Walk. A year ago it was possible to have a first look and try the link over Bow Creek from Canning Town Station to London City Island. Work on the riverside wall starts next […]

Historic England has added two historic buildings in Limehouse as being at risk and placed then on the 2017 Heritage at Risk Register. St Anne’s Limehouse is at the climax of the Lea Valley Walk for those who stay by the navigation channel to end the route at Limehouse Basin. The church is on the final […]

The Lea Valley has won several Green Flag Awards both inside and outside the regional park boundary. There are now flags from Wardown Park near the River Lea source to Bow Creek Ecology Park. In between Rye House, Waltham Abbey Gardens, Tottenham Marshes, Walthamstow Marsh, Hackney Marshes and Millfields are among the winners. Also included […]

The Princess of Wales pub at Lea Bridge near Clapton is reopening on Friday 26 May at the start of Spring Bank Holiday weekend. The riverside pub has been closed since the start of May for refurbishment. Despite closure The Princess of Wales was still the gathering point on Rogation Sunday for Beating the Bounds of the […]

Virginia Quay is on the route from the end of Lea Valley Walk at East India Dock to East India Dock DLR Station. However, the west end of Virginia Quay remains closed for repair work. The best way to the station is to go behind the Virginia founders memorial, up the steps and left along […]

Lea Valley Park: a new landscape for London exhibition at New London Architecture looks at the land along the last three miles of the River Lea which is being called the Lea River Park. The new park’s main feature is a plan to improve the Lea Valley Walk’s climax from Bow to the River Thames. The is being branded The […]

The climax of the Lea Valley Walk is East India Dock opposite the O2. The way to the DLR station is across Virginia Quay from where adventurers, including Captain John Smith, set out for America in 1606. Captain John Smith went on to establish Jamestown. Princess Pocahontas is said to have saved his life when he […]

Peter Marshall has been photographing the Lea Valley since 1981. He has recorded the source as well as the Lower Lea and Bow Creek. An exhibition of just some of Peter’s black and white photographs is now at Cody Dock. The pictures chosen for his exhibition show the valley just before any change. His views of an […]