The sculpture trail known as The Line has at last opened. The first day was marred by lunchtime rain and the afternoon remained overcast. But people did begin to make their way to Cody Dock and other sites between Three Mills and The O2 Arena. The project has resulted in the bridge at Cody Dock […]

Lord Brocket is looking to regaining control of his family seat Brocket Hall a little earlier than expected. This follows the surprise news that the hotel company leasing the mansion has gone into administration. The peer had to leave his home after being jailed in 1996 for fraud. The house was due to revert to […]

Cody Wilds has not won the Grow Wild Flagship competition. Congratulations to Liverpool and Manchester. But £5,000 will go towards assisting with the further development of Cody Wilds alongside Cody Dock and help towards securing alternative funding. The full story is on the website.

The Queen and her sister Princess Margaret once worshipped at St John’s Church at Letty Green. This was in the 1930s when the two princesses stayed with their grandparents Lord and lady Strathmore. Their home was Woolmer’s Park where the grounds ran down to the River Lea. The Victorian church is now up for sale […]

David Bailey and Boris Johnson are backing a bid to green a stretch of the Lea Valley Walk near Bow. The area to be known as Cody Wilds is alongside the tidal River Lea at forgotten Cody Dock downstream of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The Wharf has a full report. You can vote for the […]

Today, Tuesday 14 October 2014, is the anniversary of the Battle of Hastings in 1066 which is being marked at Waltham Abbey by a search for the body of defeated King Harold. He is outside the east end of the town’s abbey church in an area which was once within the building. The annual wreath-laying […]

The Lea Valley Walk passes lovely Luton Church which is highlighted in The Daily Telegraph today by Christopher Howse. With the new edition of Pevsner’s Buildings of England Bedfordshire in hand he has attempted see the church’s very unusual baptistry dating from about 1340. There are many other interesting features in the very large building […]

Megan Piper, curator of The Line, has indicated that the sculpture trail which will unlock the Cody Dock crossing will be open by the autumn. Tonight’s Evening Standard has a preview of the artworks which will make this possible. The pedestrian Bridge across Cody Dock will mean that after years false starts by a quango […]

The Evening Standard carries news of the locally much discussed plan to create a wetlands centre in the Lea Valley. The boundaries will embrace are Tottenham Marshes in the north and Walthamstow Marshes in the south as well as the reservoirs alongside. The Lea Valley Walk runs north-south through the middle of the zone. Access […]

Sunday’s Countryfile programme, largely devoted to the Lea Valley, is available on iplayer this week.