Lee Valley Regional Park at 50: From Wasteland to Playground
Lee Valley Regional Park is celebrating its 50th anniversary! With special events, exhibitions and activities throughout the year, get yourself and the family active throughout London, Essex and Hertfordshire.
Lee Valley Regional Park Authority
The award-winning Lee Valley Regional Park stretches an incredible 26 miles along the leafy banks of the River Lee, from Ware in Hertfordshire, through Essex, to the Thames at East India Dock Basin.
Badger family in Lee Valley Regional Park
This video was captured by a Ranger of the Lee Valley. The short clip pictures the family looking around with their two cubs.
Lee valley park walk
A short walk from Turnford to Cheshunt station
Muntjac at the Lee Valley Park
Male Muntjac deer feeding at the Lee Valley Regional Park, Hertfordshire during winter. Early March 2017.
Lee Valley park, London
Импровизированный Пикник на природе за Лондоном. Сентябрь 2015
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Places to see in ( Hertford - UK )
Places to see in ( hertford - UK )
Hertford is the county town of Hertfordshire, England, and is also a civil parish in the East Hertfordshire district of the county. Forming a civil parish, Since 1974, Hertford has been within the East Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire.The headquarters of Hertfordshire County Council is at County Hall in Hertford. East Herts District Council's offices almost adjoin County Hall, and there is also a Hertford Town Council based at Hertford Castle.
Hertford is at the confluence of four river valleys: the Rib, Beane and Mimram join the River Lea at Hertford to flow south toward the Thames as the Lee Navigation, after Hertford Castle Weir.The shared valley of the Lea and the Beane is called Hartham Common and this provides a large park to one side of the town centre running towards Ware and lying below the ridge upon which Bengeo is situated.
The town centre still has its medieval layout with many timber-framed buildings hidden under later frontages, particularly in St Andrew Street. Hertford suffers from traffic problems despite the existence of the 1960s A414 bypass called Gascoyne Way which passes close to the town centre. Plans have long existed to connect the A10 with the A414, by-passing the town completely. Nevertheless, the town retains very much a country-town feel, despite lying only 19.2 miles (30.9 km) north of Central London. This is aided by its proximity to larger towns such as Harlow, Bishop's Stortford and Stevenage where modern development has been focused.
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In the town are the remains of the original Hertford Castle, principally a motte. The castle's gatehouse, the central part of which dates to a rebuild by Edward IV in 1463, is the home to Hertford Town Council. The Motte, from the original Motte and Bailey castle in Hertford, can be found just behind Castle Hall, a short distance from the modern castle.
In Railway Street can be found the oldest purpose-built Quaker Meeting House in the world, in use since 1670. The Hertford Corn Exchange was built on the site of a former gaol. Hertford Museum is housed in a 17th-century historic town house, with a Jacobean-style knot garden. A stained-glass window in St Andrew's Church is part of a fringe theory that links Hertford to the Knights Templar and the Holy Grail.
Hertford serves as a commuter town for London, and has two stations. Hertford East (on the Hertford East Branch Line). Hertford North (on the Hertford Loop Line) . Hertford also lies just west of the A10 and the Kingsmead Viaduct which links it south to London and the M25 and north to Royston and Cambridge.
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Me and my friends did some mtb riding around the lee valley velo park in stratford
YHA London Lee Valley Virtual Tour
Take a unique look into our locations with YHA Virtual Tours.
Perhaps our most unique London hostel, YHA London Lee Valley is a Youth Hostel split over six wooden lodge-style buildings. We are situated in the Lee Valley Regional Park - where you can explore open green spaces and take part in watersports.
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Places to see in ( Dartford - UK )
Places to see in ( Dartford - UK )
Dartford is the principal town in the Borough of Dartford, Kent, England. It is located 18 miles south-east of Central London, and is situated adjacent to the London Borough of Bexley to its west. To its north, across the Thames estuary, is Thurrock in Essex, which can be reached via the Dartford Crossing and the Dartford Tunnel.
Dartford centre lies in a valley through which the River Darent flows, and where the old road from London to Dover crossed: hence the name, from Darent + ford. Dartford became a market town in medieval times and, although today it is principally a commuter town for Greater London, it has a long history of religious, industrial and cultural importance. It is an important rail hub; the main through-road now by-passes the town itself.
Dartford is twinned with several other towns and cities abroad including Hanau in Germany, Gravelines in France and Namyangju in South Korea.
Dartford has two major buildings concerned with performance art. The Orchard Theatre, located in the town centre, is a fully professional theatre, providing audiences with a large range of drama, dance, music and entertainment. The Mick Jagger Centre, within the grounds of Dartford Grammar School on Shepherds Lane, was completed in 2000 and provides facilities for community arts across a wide region.
Dartford railway station is located in the town centre and is connected to London via three National Rail routes. The first railway London to Dartford connection was the North Kent Line via Woolwich Arsenal in 1849, connecting at Gravesend with the line to the Medway Towns. Later two more lines were built, the Dartford Loop Line through Sidcup, which opened in 1866, and the Bexleyheath Line, which opened in 1895. All the lines were electrified on 6 June 1926.
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Lee Valley Regional Park is a 10,000-acre 26 miles long linear park, much of it green spaces, running through the northeast of Greater London, Essex and Hertfordshire from the River Thames to Ware, through areas such as Stratford, Clapton, Tottenham, Enfield, Walthamstow, Cheshunt, Broxbourne and Hoddesdon in an area generally known as the Lea Valley.Greater London's largest park, Lee Valley Park is more than four times the size of Richmond Park, extending beyond Greater London's borders into the neighbouring counties of Hertfordshire and Essex.The park follows the course of the River Lea along the Lea Valley from Ware in Hertfordshire through Essex and the north east of Greater London, through the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park to East India Dock Basin on the River Thames.The park is managed by Lee Valley Regional Park Authority and is made up of a diverse mix of countryside areas, urban green spaces, heritage sites, country parks, nature reserves and lakes and riverside trails, as well as leading sports centres covering an area of over 10,000 acres .
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Lee Valley White Water Centre
Aerial video shot with DJI Phantom, GoPro Hero 3 Black at the Lee Valley White Water Centre in Essex, UK. This is the site that was used for the 2012 Olympic Canoeing events.
Angel of the Lee Valley
Artist Denise Wyllie created a giant angel, guardian spirit, spanning the area of a football pitch drawn on Leyton Marsh, East London for the Millennium.
The Angel was a superwoman, a grandmother with wise words for children yet to be born and an expression of the unity of all the communities she represented. The Angel was a designed to leave no scar on the landscape, showing love for this common ground and the communities that use it.
The Angel of the Lee Valley represents different things to different people. As a transient land art installation, the real art was in the process that left a permanent mark on the participants and partners of the project.
From beginning to end, the East London Leyton community, had input and ownership of the Angel of Lee Valley, resulting in a true sense of inclusion.
The artist Denise Wyllie picked a common factor to explore -- an angel -- and facilitated a series of extensive workshops with groups including Kreative Kids Klub, African Caribbean Welfare Association, Muslim Women's Welfare Association, HEBA Women's Project, North London Deaf Children's Association, St Saviours School and Leyton Sixth Form College.
Through the workshop process, the women and children developed the concept of an angel and what it meant to them. As a result a monumental, 2 dimensional image was created and transposed onto Leyton Marsh over an area of 6,400 square metres, to be viewed from scaffold towers and tethered hot-air balloons.
Denise Wyllie notes -- I aimed to involve people old and young, with different religions, or no religion to work together. The African Caribbean Welfare Association women wanted to leave a message for the future for their grandchildren, some not yet born. For them, I created two artworks showing them as feisty angels to which they gave their personal messages for the future. They gave the Angel of the Lee Valley the responsibility to safeguard their wishes.
Wyllie O Hagan
Extract from Angel film courtesy of Andrey Kurochkin
London editors Wyllie O Hagan and Liron Zisser
Places to see in ( Waltham Abbey - UK )
Places to see in ( Waltham Abbey - UK )
Waltham Abbey is a suburban market town in the Epping Forest District of Essex, the metropolitan area of London, and the Greater London Urban Area. Lying on North East London's outskirts, it is located 15 miles from central London. It is on the Greenwich Meridian, between the River Lea in the west and Epping Forest in the east, situated north of the London Borough of Waltham Forest and east of the London Borough of Enfield. It is the resting place of King Harold Godwinson, who died in the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
Waltham Abbey takes its name from its former abbey, now the Abbey Church of Waltham Holy Cross, a scheduled ancient monument that was prominent in the town's early history. The town is within the large civil parish of Waltham Abbey which was known as Waltham Holy Cross until 1974. The parish has a town council and is twinned with the German town of Hörstel.
The name Waltham derives from weald or wald forest and ham homestead or enclosure. The name of the ancient parish was Waltham Holy Cross, but the use of the name Waltham Abbey for the town seems to have originated in the 16th century, although there has often been inconsistency in the use of the two names. Indeed, the former urban district was named Waltham Holy Cross, rather than Waltham Abbey. There are traces of prehistoric and Roman settlement in the town. Ermine Street lies only 5 km west and the causeway across the River Lea from Waltham Cross in Hertfordshire may be a Roman construction. A local legend claims that Boudica's rebellion against the Romans ended in the neighbourhood, when she poisoned herself with hemlock gathered on the banks of Cobbins Brook.
In 1177, as part of his penance for his part in the murder of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Henry II refounded Harold's church as a priory of Augustinian Canons Regular of sixteen canons and a prior or dean. In 1184, this was enlarged so that Waltham became an abbey with an abbot and twenty-four canons, which grew to be the richest monastery in Essex. To the abbey's west and south, the town grew as a linear development around a crossing road, although it had a single north-south High Street as late as 1848. The town's dependence on the Abbey is signalled by its decline after the Abbey was dissolved and partially demolished in 1540, the last working abbey or monastery to be dissolved. Waltham Abbey vicarage is a 17th-century timber framed and plastered building. It was given by Edward Denny, 1st Earl of Norwich to create the first curacy, but was much altered in the 18th century and later, and was more recently architecturally Grade II*listed.
The medieval Waltham Abbey Church was kept as it was close to a town and is still used as a parish church. In addition there are other remains of the former abbey – the Grade II*listed Midnight Chapel, the gatehouse, a vaulted passage and Harold’s Bridge – all in the care of English Heritage. These grounds are notable for the reputed grave of Harold II or Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon King of England. On the site of a former gunpowder factory another museum illustrates the evolution of explosives and the development of the Royal Gunpowder Mills (an Anchor Point of ERIH, The European Route of Industrial Heritage) through interactive and traditional exhibitions and displays.
The former gravel pits in the Lea Valley and parts of the former Abbey Gardens are now in the care of the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority for recreational use and nature conservation. The Epping Forest Conservation Centre in High Beach provides information, maps, books, cards, displays and advice for visitors to the area.
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2018 London BMX Series Round 6 // Hackney (Lee Valley Velopark) // London BMX Racing
Hackney BMX Club hosted the sixth and final round of the 2018 London BMX Series at Lee Valley Velopark. As always, there was lots of good racing. Let's do it all again in 2019!
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Waltham Forest Area Guide from Visit London
This Visit London Guide to Waltham Forest includes info about leisure opportunities at Lee Valley Regional Park, the artistic delights of the William Morris Gallery, and a fantastic insight into attractions in Chingford and Walthamstow Village.
Lee Valley Park bushcraft: cold survival and party tricks
Lee Valley Park began offering cold survival as part of its bushcraft courses when it opened the Almost Wild Campsite in June 2017. Rangers provide bushcraft training beside the River Lee (Lea). The Lee Valley site is situated on the Essex Hertfordshire border, at Nazeing New Road, Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, EN10 6TD.
Lee Valley park ranger Craig Fordham demonstrates here how easy it is to create fire from a variety of different substances that can be purchased from shops. These items can be carried as part of an emergency pack when travelling in the wild.
Bushcraft courses are provided by Craig and other rangers for campers who stop overnight on the Almost Wild campsite.
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