Following the River Lea

This is a linear walk. We meet at 11am, outside Tottenham Hale Tube Station (on the Victoria Line) to begin our walk. Toilets are available on platform 4, you will need to use your travel card to tap through the barriers to access the toilets on the left once pass the barriers.

Final Destination, Carnary Wharf DLR (Jubilee line can also be accessed from this station)

A moderately flat walk of just under 9 miles. We start out following the Copper mill stream, via Walthamstow Wetlands, the Engine House (built in 1894, now a café and wildlife visitor centre), The Copper Mill Tower (built in 1806). 

After the Tower we join the River Lea, continuing on via Walthamstow Marshes, Middlesex Filter beds (built in the 1800s to prevent the spread of cholera) and onto the Olympic park for lunch.

At our lunch stop there are a number of lunch options to choose from.  If you have a packed lunch there are plenty of outside seating and public toilets near the Hackney Bridge Kitchen along East Bay Lane by the river. There are also coffee shops nearby for hot drinks. If you prefer a hot meal, there are plenty of choices inside the Hackney Bridge Kitchen.

After lunch we continue our walk following the River Lea, via the old Ford Lock and onto the House Mill (built in 1776, as part of the original 3 mills complex on the site), we continue via the Limehouse cut canal which leads to the River Thames.  Following the Thames path we arrive at Westferry Circus and onto Canary wharf DLR station where our walk ends.