Picturesque Saturday walk. Highgate to Clapton

This is an interesting walk and one of my most popular ones with lots of wildlife to see, and if you have not done this walk, it is well worth doing.

It is advisable to wear boots as some of the paths we are walking on can get muddy.

We will do the usual, stop for coffees, pubs and loos!, and there will be time given to take photographs.

We will meet at Highgate Station exit 2 at Priory Gardens, at 11.00 am,
at 11.05 am sharp we will start our walk to Finsbury Park designed and built during the early part of the second quarter of the 19th century.

Following developments in Paris as Londoners began to demand the creation of open spaces as an antidote to the ever-increasing urbanisation of London. Originally to be named Albert after guess who, the first plans were drawn up in 1850.

Renamed Finsbury Park, after the area where the 19th century benefactors who created it lived.

We will stop at the cafe in Finsbury Park, for a hot drink, after our hot drink, we will walk to Clissold Park Stoke Newington for lunch where there is a café there or you can bring your own sandwiches.

After lunch, we will walk through parts of Stoke Newington, and into Springfield Park, then crossing over the Lea Navigation, to Walthamstow Marshes ending up at the Princess of Wales Clapton, for a well earned drink.

Where you will able to get buses, to Dalston Overground Station, Old Street Underground station, and many other destinations.

Walking distance 7 miles approx.

£5 meet up fee on arrival {please have the right change}.

If you walk slow, or have a knee problem this walk is not for you.

Please note,

We will be following COV'D 19 procedures, so please ensure you have a mask and hand gel with you, and if you are feeling unwell do not turn up.
Social distancing will be on this walk.

Please advise me at least 24 hrs before, so some one else can take your place.

Failure not do this when signing up again you will be moved to not going.

Meetup Leader Paul 07530 675739 (not a smart phone)

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