Bank Holidays in the UK are traditionally times for the weather to turn cold and wet, but this one was to be an exception. The last Monday in May, which was when I did this walk, was, like today, properly scorchio, and I used it to do another Lea Valley walk, this time a loop around the Hackney Marshes.
The route is shown above:
- Get the tube to Stratford
- Start at the ex-Olympic Stadium
- Head up the Lee Navigation (the red line to the left i.e. west)
- Head down the Lea River (the red line to the right i.e. east)
- End at the ex-Olympic Stadium
- Get the tube home from Stratford
This ended up as a loop around Hackney Marshes, which you might image are actually marshes but are really football fields, lots of them, with up to a hundred games being played there at weekends. Though when I was there it was a lot quieter:
In total it was about 11 km in total.
It was a good walk.
Top tip: the Lea River portion has two paths: the official one (tarmacked) and another closer to the river between the bushes and under trees, which is much nicer:
There were a number of differences between the Lee Navigation and Lea River which I'll leave for another post, the result of battles over the years which are still continuing.
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