Places to explore near Bowes Park StationWood Green

A Victorian burial ground of 1839 where Karl Marx and George Eliot lie.

4.9 km S

An Edwardian pergola of stone columns and wisteria built for soap magnate Lord Leverhulme.

6.3 km SW

London's first public park, opened in 1845 and long known as the People's Park.

9.5 km SE

Planting threaded through brutalist walkways on the site of London's first public park.

9.9 km S

Opened in 1854 as London's first municipal burial ground, with more interments than any UK cemetery.

3.1 km W

London's inner orbital walk, stringing together 78 miles of parks, canals and viewpoints through the middle suburbs.

3.2 km SW · London

Terraced lawns given to Londoners in 1889 as a garden for the gardenless.

4.6 km S

Down the Lea from its source at Leagrave to the Thames at Limehouse — flat towpath walking through Hertford and the Olympic Park.

4.9 km SE · spans 4 counties

The Lea made navigable — from Hertford through the Lee Valley's reservoirs and marshes to Bow Locks on the edge of the Thames.

4.9 km SE · London, Hertfordshire & Essex