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The splendid gatehouse of Rye House is open free this Sunday 14 September as part of Heritage Open Day. There is usually an admission charge. Rye House was built in 1443 on an island and the site, although stripped of the big house, still has the feel of an island.  On Sunday you can climb […]

The Mayor of London Boris Johnson has received the Olympic flag in Beijing as the focus now turns to the Lee Valley for 2012. A London Olympic flag was due to be raised on the flagpole at the Lee Valley Ice Centre alongside Lea Bridge this afternoon. The Olympic venues are beside the Lea Valley […]

Interesting to see that the Lee Valley features in the list of the top twenty Secret Britain wildlife sites. The locations are in today’s Independent on Sunday and Rye Meads, the Rye House Nature Reserve, is placed 14th in the list which starts with Ireland’s Slievenacloy Nature Reserve and Scotland’s Loch of the Lowes. “Ancient […]

Since Monday the Army has been struggling to make safe a World War II bomb dredged up from the Prescott Channel in the Bow Back Rivers network. It has now been neutralized but an explosion would have been felt not only on the Lea Valley Walk at nearby Three Mills but also in Stratford and Bow. […]

It was a delight to see so many on the walk today. Thirty people turned up at Tottenham Hale Station at 11am for the walk south to Three Mills promoted by Walk London and the Lee Valley Walking Week. After Hackney Wick we left the official Lea Valley Walk route to go up on to […]

This Saturday 31 May and Sunday 1 June there are guided walks in the Lee Valley as part of the Walk London weekend and the Lee Valley Walking Week. I shall be leading the walk called ‘See the Olympic Park’ starting at Tottenham Hale Station. Meet at 11am outside the station which is on the […]

Canadian photographer Philip Jessup, who is documenting the remains of wilderness in several large cities, has included the London’s Lee Valley. Lea/Lee Transformations at London’s City Hall is an exhibition of 17 pictures taken by Philip Jessup in the valley south of the M25. There are pictures of Turkey Brook, Bow Creek Ecology Park and […]

I shall be leading a walk down the Lea Valley towpath at the end of May. As part of the Walk London weekend there will be a five mile guided walk along the Lea Valley Walk route starting at Tottenham Hale and ending at Three Mills near Bromley-by-Bow underground station.  The section of the Lea […]

Ten detailed information boards have been placed in the grounds of Waltham Abbey giving information about the very first pre-Conquest church, the founding of the monastery, historic events and the closure of the community by King Henry VIII. The magnificent abbey church has survived as the town’s parish church.  An unveiling was performed by the Lord […]

News that today’s issue of The Times is the first to be officially printed at Broxbourne may have puzzled some who think that they know the Lee Valley well. This claim is not quite accurate just as reports that the Olympic canoe events were to be at Broxbourne were also misleading. The canoe course is […]