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4.4 (56 reviews)

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Victoria Park
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Victoria park, is quite possibly the best park to visit in the East End of London, at any time of the year. During the summer, it bustles with activity including, football, rugby, fishing, runners and cyclists or people just taking a walk. However, the best time to see this urban refuge is during the autumn weeks, when the plentiful trees are turning golden, their leaves scattered on the ground, adding to the already rustic feel the park provides. The squirrels are busy collecting, the geese, coots and ducks share the fountain lake, and the tranquility on offer here, is a most welcome contrast to the often frantic city life. Thinking of what to do this weekend, I'm going here.

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Cécile T.

I live near Victoria Park and LOVE it. I usually walk along the canal to get there so that helps! There is a lovely little café (Pavillion Cafe). Lots of birds on the lake. Tons of people walking their dogs (so be warned, dog phobics! I took one of my friends who is scared of canines because I forgot and that did NOT go well). You can go and watch people play cricket sometimes in one area of the park. It is surrounded by cute pubs. And there's Victoria Park Village, where you'll find a Bottle Apostle, a great Fish and Chips, a curry house and lots of other things in an idyllic setting. There are not many lights in the park so when you walk there in the winter, when it gets dark early but Winterville hasn't yet taken residence or has already left, you can actually see stars sometimes :) This is admittedly a stream of consciousness review and I might add to it later but I am away and was kind of missing Vicky Park, so there you go.

Take a break from the hectic pace of life in central London and visit the biggest green space the East has to offer. This park has everything: long and interesting routes for walkers, runners and rollerbladers, a kids playground, sports facilities, picnic areas and fishing lakes. Great for a morning jog or a leisurely stroll and a stop at The Pavillion organic café on the edge of the nicer lake. Regent's canal runs alongside and can be followed to Broadway market or all the way to Islington. The park plays host to many events throughout the year - from concerts on a grand scale to theatre performances, fairs and public firework displays - which draw all kinds of people from all over London. It's popular with pretty much everyone, locals and visitors from kids to grandparents - via lots of young arty types having picnics and barbeques, or sitting with their sketchbook. Beware the fearless squirrels who might sneak up for some food uninvited.

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London Fields

London Fields

4.3(22 reviews)
1.0 miLondon Fields

I am fortunate enough to live close by this park. Every season shows beautifully in London Fields,…read morepossibly because it is so vast, and the trees line the walkways. The best thing about the park is the ping pong table. Apparently outdoor tables are popular in other European cities, but this is the first one I have seen in London. Weather permitting, there is usually a good group of players down at the table. Be warned though, there is a pretty high standard of play. The best thing you could possible do is a grab some quality food and coffee from Broadway Market, and sit down on a bench amongst the leaves.

Now that the weather is finally getting better it's finally time to go out in the sun and have some…read moregreat barbecues. For those of us not lucky enough to have a massive garden (whoever does in London what job do you have to afford that) all the massive parks are our best bet. While you can have a picnic at any one you like, London Fields actually allows you to bring a barbecue, I recommend getting a cheap disposable one, and start cooking. If you are coming from Hackney Central you are going to pass by Iceland so make sure to get all your food items from there and you're all set up. There's also an off licence next to the bbq area of the park for some extra drinks. So just bring over everything you need and get the barbie going. You'll have a great day out in the park and a delicious meal. Make sure to take some photos to remember the day and then do it all over again!

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Hackney Downs

Hackney Downs

4.0(4 reviews)
1.6 miHackney Downs

I remember this from years ago as a pretty bleak square of grass. I'm not sure if my perceptions…read morehave changed or it's actually improved, but it's seemed quite pleasant on my last few visits. It's still basically an open square of a park, though it does dip down on the west side, and has some nice houses bordering some areas. All the paths tend to head to the centre, where the action is. Here there are kids play areas, and a 'no dogs' etc garden for quiet sitting or little kids to play in. There are gangs of teenagers around, but a mix of people of all ages as well. You might also see a game of cricket going on. The area is racially mixed, and some communities are more into it than the ethnic English! My favourite part though is to the North West, where there's a little wild patch, and avenues of London Plane trees.

The reasons for me liking this rather unassuming 17 hectare stretch of grass in East London are…read morethreefold: firstly, location. While the nearby Nightingale and Pembury Estates provide less than salubrious surroundings, the park itself is built on an elevated piece of land overlooking the City, with great views of the Gherkin. It also appears to be the marker for where Heathrow-bound planes dip their wings and hang a right on their approach - a hypnotic manouvre performed on an unending 30-second loop and best watched while lying on your back in the grass on a cloudless July day. The second reason is that Hackney Downs is not London Fields, my other local park, populated by a population of live-in frisbee-tossing fixy-pushing twats. Denizens of the Downs, a much larger space by comparison, have lots more space to play with even on the busiest of days. Lastly, I live round the corner, a literal stone's throw from all the Down's well-lit facilities: jogging track, footie pitches, monkey bars and tennis & basketball courts. At the drop of a hat I can throw on some trainers, burst out of my front door, and lose myself in my own slice of London's extensive green space.

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London Bridge Stone Alcoves

London Bridge Stone Alcoves

3.0(2 reviews)
0.1 miVictoria Park, Bow

Victoria Park contains two stone alcoves, which were formally part of an older incarnation of…read moreLondon Bridge. The bridge was demolished in 1831, and the alcoves have been in the park since 1860. They do look a little strange, but are fitted with wooden benches, and provide a pleasant place to sit and look out over the park, sheltered from the weather. They are set in an area which also has fine avenues of London Plane trees.

I found some info to add to this review. These two stone…read morepedestrian alcoves, are surviving fragments of the old London Bridge, demolished in 1831. They arrived here in 1860. This incarnation of the famous bridge (there have been two others since), stood for over 600 years and was lined with shops and houses. With regard to these turrets, Labelye, the architect, says they were not only built for their evident accommodation of passengers, desiring or obliged to stop without interfering with the roadway, or for the relief they afforded to the eye in breaking so long a line, but for the additional security they gave to the bridge, by strengthening the parts between the arches, and thereby affording so much more weight to repel the lateral pressure. Maitland, however, mentions a more serious purpose to which these recesses might have been put; he says they might have served for places of ambush for robbers and cut-throats, but for the establishment of a guard of twelve watchmen specially appointed for the security of the passage during the night. The writer of the account of Westminster, in the Beauties of England and Wales, mentions a peculiarity which these recesses possessed, somewhat analogous to the whispering gallery in St. Paul's Cathedral. He says, So just are their proportions, and so complete and uniform their symmetry, that, if a person whispers against the wall on the one side of the way, he may be plainly heard on the opposite side; and parties may converse without being prevented by the interruption of the street or the noise of carriages.

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